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Columbia Journalism sChool Winter 2010
blog about her experiences
there (http://anisaammanjournal.
blogspot.com). She directed a
short film for the opening of the
first national conference on disabilities
in Jordan, which took
place in November 2009.
1983
Emilia Askari left her reporting
job at the Detroit Free Press
after almost 20 years to begin a
two-year master’s program in
social computing and humancomputer
interaction at the University
of Michigan’s School of
Information, which is ranked
third in the country by U.S. News
and World Report. Her first
year’s tuition is covered by a
Spectrum Scholarship from the
American Libraries Association
and supplemental scholarships
from the University. Askari will
continue to freelance and teach
an environmental/public health
journalism class to University of
Michigan undergraduates.
William Cohan has joined
Bloomberg Television as a contributing
editor, providing analysis
on financial issues of the day,
including mergers and acquisitions,
bankruptcy and private
equity. Cohan is the author of
two bestselling books, “House of
Cards: A Tale of Hubris and
Wretched Excess on Wall Street”
and “The Last Tycoons: The
Secret History of Lazard Frères &
Co.,” which won the 2007 FT/
Goldman Sachs Business Book
of the Year Award. Previously,
Cohan spent six years at Lazard
Frères in New York and later
became a managing director at
JPMorgan Chase & Co. In addition,
Cohan is a contributing editor of
Fortune magazine and has written
for The New York Times,
The Washington Post, Financial
Times, The Atlantic, TIME magazine
and The Daily Beast.
Michael Lemonick spoke at the
University of Delaware on Oct. 17
on how a poor musician’s observation
led to a whole new world
of scientific inquiry in “How
William and Caroline Herschel
Invented Modern Astronomy.”
Called “one of astronomy’s great
popularizers” by The New York
Times Sunday Book Review,
Lemonick has been a journalist
and author for more than 25
years — 20 of them at TIME
magazine, where he wrote more
than 50 cover stories on topics
ranging from climate change to
genomics to particle physics.
Today, he teaches writing at
Princeton University and is the
senior staff writer for Climate
Central. Lemonick has written
four books on astronomy: “The
Light at the Edge of the Universe”
(1993); “Other Worlds” (1996),
which won the American Institute
of Physics Science Writing
Award; “Echo of the Big Bang”
(2003); and “The Georgian Star”
(2008), which focuses on the
Herschels and their discoveries.
Mary Lhowe was honored with
the 12th annual Russell E. Dixon
Volunteer of the Year Award by
the Rhode Island Department of
Corrections. Since 2004, Ms. Lhowe
has been the volunteer program
manager of the Adult Correctional
Institution’s Books Beyond
Program, overseeing a small but
dedicated corps of volunteers
who have made it possible for
100 inmates to select and record
on audio cassettes up to three
books for each of their children.
Once recorded, the books and
tapes are mailed to the children
at their homes. Lhowe is employed
by visitnewengland.com, an
online guide to travel and tourism
in New England owned by
her husband, Jonathan Lhowe.
She has spent most of her career
as a reporter and editor for various
newspapers.
Michael Rosenblum is chief
instructor at the New York Video
School. Rosenblum taught one
of the most popular courses in
NYU’s film school for years. He
has lectured all over the world
and has taught thousands of
people to use video. His training
has been used at places like the
BBC, Oxygen, Al Gore’s Current
TV, Time Warner’s NY1, and
many more. He has produced
hundreds of hours of television
programming, and his students
have gone on to use video in
countless professions.
1984
Robert Camuto’s book “Corkscrewed”
has received the Prix
Clos de Vougeot 2009 for its
French translation (called “Un
Américain dans les vignes: Une
ode amoureuse à la France du
bien-vivre”). His book charts an
odyssey into the new world of
French wine, a world of biodynamic
winegrowing, herbal treatments
and lunar cycles. The
prize includes a case of Clos de
Vougeot wine presented at the
historic chateau in Burgundy
that bears the prize’s name.
Jim Jubak has joined MoneyShow.
com as senior markets editor.
Jubak will write two columns a
week, post blog entries every
weekday and produce weekly
video segments about the markets,
the economy and individual
stocks he follows. Jubak was a
Knight-Bagehot Fellow and has
been in financial journalism for
25 years. He was editor of Venture
magazine and senior editor
at Worth magazine before joining
MSN Money as senior markets
editor in 1997. He has written
three books, most recently
“The Jubak Picks,” published by
Crown Business.
Mike Watkiss has been named
“Best Television Reporter” by
Phoenix New Times magazine
for the second year in a row and
for the fourth time in the last six
years. In making the selection,
the magazine wrote, “It’s downright
impossible to find competition
for Mike Watkiss in this
wrecking ball of a media market.
Watkiss, a mighty mite with a big
voice and a bigger heart, is definitely
old school. The guy literally
pounds the pavement
looking for lowdown stories
about murder, mayhem, and the
otherwise seamy side of life. And
he’s charming — if you are not
the subject of one of his stories.
Sadly street reporters like Watkiss
are a dying breed, so enjoy
him while you can. We love the
SOB.” Watkiss said he is grateful
for the recognition and touched
by the sentiment.
1989
Paul Schultz wrote “Eat, Drink
and Be Merry” for the New York
City International Fringe Festival.
The musical comedy followed
Adam and Eve on their quest for
food and freedom, from the Garden
of Eden to the Queens of
today. The first two humans are
cave people, sacrificial lambs,
serfs, Pilgrims, pioneers and
modern shoppers.
1990
20th class reunion
April 22-24, 2010!
Rosiland Jordan anchored the
Al Jazeera Network English
Language Channel broadcast,
“The Americas.”
1992
Tom Moore is teaching journalism
as an adjunct at the York College/
City University of New York after
almost 17 years at Bloomberg
Radio and TV News. Moore previously
worked at “The MacNeil/
Lehrer NewsHour” and NBC News.
Steve Wolgast researched academic
regalia at Columbia University
and wrote a paper that
earned him Fellow status with
the Burgon Society, a British
academic group dedicated to
the study of academic dress.
Wolgast, an instructor of journalism
and mass communications
at Kansas State University, presented
his paper at a ceremony
on Oct. 10 in London. The paper
will also be published in the
society’s peer-reviewed journal,
Transactions of the Burgon
Society.
1993
Malcolm Foster started his new
job as AP’s Tokyo bureau chief
in September after four years in
Bangkok as Asia business editor
for the Associated Press. He
finds it’s rewarding to return to
the land where he was born and
raised — and he couldn’t ask for
better timing with the recent big
political changes in Japan, which
is grappling with economic woes
and how to cope with its aging,
shrinking population.
James Earl Hardy has written the
screenplay for “The Day Eazy-E
Died,” which was optioned by
Southern Fried Filmworks. Hardy
has created memorable characters
in this youthful drama set in
1990s New York City. Principal
photography is scheduled to
begin April of 2010 in New York
City coinciding with the 15th
anniversary of the passing of rap
pioneer Eazy-E, founder and
original member of the group
N.W.A. Hardy is an author and
award-winning entertainment
feature writer and cultural critic
whose byline has appeared in
The Advocate, Entertainment
Weekly, Essence, New York
Newsday, Newsweek, OUT, The
Source, Upscale, Vibe, The Village
Voice and The Washington Post.
1994
Princess Rym Ali is preparing to
open a new media institute in
the kingdom of Jordan. The
inaugural class of the Jordan
Media Institute (JMI), which
plans to open in 2010, will comprise
about 20 students. The
institute will begin to accept
admissions by the end of this
month. Ali said she had helped
to establish the school, initially
under the auspices of the University
of Jordan, after conversations
with media figures across
the Arab world highlighted the
need for more well-trained Arab
journalists as the number of
newspapers, new media publica-
tions, and television and radio
stations was rapidly growing in
the Middle East. Ali worked at
media outlets including the BBC,
United Press International, Dubai
TV, Bloomberg and CNN.
Victoria Colliver, health reporter
for the San Francisco Chronicle,
was awarded a grant through
the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for
Health Journalism, a project of
the USC Annenberg/California
Endowment Health Journalism
Fellowships. She plans to use the
funds to look at health inequities
and life expectancy differences
in the Bay Area, with particular
emphasis on her home city of
Oakland. Colliver and a colleague
recently started a new health
blog called Chron Rx (http://
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/
chronrx/index).
Michelle Conlin was interviewed
by New York magazine about
her role in the documentary
“No Impact Man.” Her husband,
Colin Beavan, came up with the
idea for his family to live a year
in New York City with as little
environmental impact as possible.
“But the star of the film is his
wife, Michelle Conlin, a senior
writer at Business Week” (http://
nymag.com/movies/features/
58860).
Steve Schifferes will lead a new
financial journalism M.A. at City
University in London. Schifferes
has been named the institution’s
first Marjorie Deane Professor of
Financial Journalism. Schifferes
was economics correspondent
for the BBC, where his positions
included acting editor of its
online business pages, issues
producer for its online coverage
of the last general election and
producer for “On the Record”
and “The Money Programme.”
Most recently he co-coordinated
the BBC’s online anniversary
coverage of the 2008 financial
crisis.
1995
15th class reunion,
April 22-24, 2010!
Fabio Bertoni has been named
vice president and deputy general
counsel of ALM, an integrated
media company. Bertoni, who
has served as counsel in the
company’s legal department
since 2006, will expand his role
in overseeing legal activities
related to corporate affairs,
financing, litigation, editorial
liaison and intellectual property
matters. ALM is a leading pro-