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12 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 publications, 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-
eBeCCa SanTana ’97 — In October, Rebecca Santana, who has covered the Middle East and Russia as a reporter and editor, was named bureau chief for The Associated Press in Baghdad. Santana joined the AP in 2005 in Trenton, N.J., covering the environment, the military and religious issues. After working at the AP’s North American desk in New York, she joined the Mideast regional desk in Cairo in late 2008, where she also undertook numerous reporting and editing assignments to Iraq. In November, on her first rotation back in the U.S., Santana reflected on the challenges of her new role in Baghdad: Iraq is safer than it was in 2004 when I was there for NBC News, but security is still a concern. My job is to help the local staff with story ideas, making sure my reporters are able to do their jobs and also remain safe. We live and work in the same building and need to find ways to make it less claustrophobic. The administrative aspect is a challenge; something I’ve never done before; we moved into a new building and I’ve never been a contractor before — in Iraq or America. This is a really interesting time. Drawing down the largest troop presence the U.S. has had outside its own country in a long time — to witness that happening is a great opportunity — and to see what happens to Iraq afterward. Will it become a stable democracy in the Middle East? All these things are amazing to witness. vider of specialized business news and information, focused primarily on the legal and commercial real estate sectors. ALM’s market-leading brands include The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, GlobeSt. com, Insight Conferences, Law. com, Law Journal Press, LegalTech, The National Law Journal and Real Estate Forum. Headquartered in New York City, ALM was formed in 1997. Carol Berman and Craig Philips Brown were married Sept. 5 in Philadelphia. Berman is a public relations consultant in Ardmore, Pa. Brown is an assistant vice president and director of internal strategic communications at the Lincoln Financial Group, an insurance company in Radnor, Pa. Micah Fink worked on a five-part documentary series on HIV/AIDS in Jamaica, which aired on PBS World Focus International News Program, funded by a consortium of groups, including the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, PBS World Focus and the Mac AIDS Foundation (http:// www.theatlantic.com/doc/ 200909u/jamaica-aids). Dave Saldana has picked up stakes and moved to Berkeley, Calif., where he is now the senior associate for national security and human rights at ReThink Media. In that position, he will provide strategic communications training to organizations working on addressing civil liberties and human rights abuses since 9/11, to the end that national security does not come at the expense of our rights. Saldana left Media Matters in January and married Carla Fehr, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy and women’s studies at Iowa State University, on March 14. They are now a bicoastal couple (if you consider the Des Moines River a coast). Pia Sarkar is associate editor at the Daily Journal (http://www. dailyjournal.com). 1996 Jay Akasie is managing editor of Trends, a leading magazine of Middle Eastern business and politics. He was formerly the business editor of The New York Sun and has also worked at Forbes, Worth and Grant’s Interest Rate Observer (e-mail: jakasie@hotmail.com). 1997 Aliyah Baruchin won the 2009 Excellence in Epilepsy Journalism Award, an international award given by the International Bureau for Epilepsy and the biopharma- ceutical company UCB. The award, in the print/online category, was for a story on African-Americans with epilepsy, part of a series on epilepsy and race/ethnicity for the Epilepsy Foundation’s national magazine, EpilepsyUSA. Baruchin writes frequently about race and health, and spent last year as a 2008 Kaiser Foundation Fellow in Health Media, reporting on racial disparities in health and health care. Jabeen Bhatti has launched a new international journalism project, Associated Reporters Abroad (ARA). Started by Bhatti and four partners, including alumni Harald Franzen ’99 and Michael Levitin ’02 and based in Berlin, Germany, they are trying to reverse the decline in foreign news by linking freelance foreign correspondents with editors and news directors around the world, through the online network www.ara-network.com. John McGrath is taking Wordie (www.wordie.org, “Like Flickr, but without the photos”) to the big time, merging with Wordnik. com. Molly Ann Morse and Randy Rothstein were married Sept. 12 at the Plaza Hotel in New York. Morse is a partner in Kekst & Company, a corporate and financial communications firm in New York. Rothstein is the director of LakeView Day Camp, a summer camp in East Brunswick, N.J. 1999 Kathy Chu became a foreign correspondent/Asia economics reporter for USA Today in Hong Kong as of Nov. 1. 2000 10th class reunion April 22-24, 2010! John Annese, a reporter for the Staten Island Advance, won first place for continuing coverage from the New York State Associated Press Association. Annese’s award is for “Youth Scourge: Prescription Drugs,” a series of in-depth stories highlighting an epidemic on Staten Island. Work on the series began after authorities broke up a 23-person prescription forgery ring that put 21,000 painkiller pills into the hands of young Staten Islanders. Annese joined the Advance in 2004 after working at the Journal Inquirer in Manchester, Conn. Alexa Capeloto is an assistant professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, teaching journalism and serving as faculty adviser for the college’s student newspaper. Capeloto was enterprise editor at The San Diego Union-Tribune. Paula Lugones, Editora Sección El Mundo, Diario Clarín (Argentina), wrote that the paper’s Route 66 project won the Funcacion Nuevo Periodismo prize as the best multimedia work in Iberoamerica in 2008. Michelle Wong is an attorney at Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard in New Orleans. Alicia Zuckerman is a senior producer/reporter/host at ZG Public Media/WLRN Radio (Fla.). 2001 Prue Clarke won a national Edward R. Murrow for feature reporting and a Gabriel award for a radio piece in Liberia. The piece was on a Liberian man intent on getting news to the majority of his countrymen who can’t read or afford a newspaper. He came up with an ingenious blackboard newspaper that reports in simple language and symbols and has gained the largest readership of any publication in Liberia. The piece is at www. prueclarke.com. Josh Lipton has joined Minyanville Media as staff writer covering business and the markets. Before joining Minyanville (www. minyanville.com), Lipton most recently was a staff writer at Forbes.com, where he covered stock market activity and trends. Prior to that he was an assistant editor at The American Lawyer. His articles have also appeared in Rolling Stone magazine, New York magazine and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. 2002 Sara Clemence is deputy business editor at the New York Post. Nicole Neroulias Gupte is the proud mother of a baby boy, Rohann Jay Gupte, born this fall. Nicole and her husband Salil now live in Seattle, where she is still freelancing for Religion News Service and working on a book proposal. Lynette Wilson, staff writer for Episcopal Life, has been promoted to editor/writer of the Episcopal Church’s new quarterly publication, set to debut in 2010. From 2007 to 2009, Wilson served as editor of The Episcopal New Yorker, the award-winning bimonthly publication of the Diocese of New York. She was a reporter on the Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal from 2004 to 2006, where she was a team finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Hurricane Ivan. She has also worked as a journalist at The News-Star in Monroe, La., and The Meridian Star in Meridian, Miss., and has interned at The Christian Science Monitor. 2003 Aaron Chimbel has left WFAA- TV in Dallas-Fort Worth after several years to join the faculty of the Schieffer School of Journalism at his other alma mater, TCU. While at WFAA, he won five Advanced Media Emmy Awards and a National Edward R. Murrow Award. Itai Maytal has completed his fellowship at The New York Times and, in September, started as a teaching assistant to midcareer students at the J-School taking the 10-week “Journalism and the Law” course. Kate Pickert is a staff writer at TIME magazine covering health care. 13
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