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14 Columbia Journalism sChool Winter 2010 DomeniCo monTanaro ’07 — After graduating from the Journalism School, Domenico Montanaro worked for CBS News in New York before moving on to NBC News in Washington, D.C. Working at CBS while going to Columbia part time, he did research and analysis for the 2006 midterm elections and then worked on production of the news magazine “48 Hours.” There, he covered the Virginia Tech shootings as well as helping produce the Walter Cronkite remembrance special. Montanaro then moved to Washington in 2007 and took a position as researcher in NBC News’ Political Unit. He covered the 2008 presidential primaries and general election, which took him to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida, Colorado, Minnesota, Missouri, Texas, Mississippi and beyond. He tracked super delegates, ads, polling and campaign finance, as well as reporting from the field and field producing. In September 2009, Montanaro was named NBC News off-air political reporter. Montanaro appears occasionally on-air and has a weekly show that appears on the Web called “The Week Ahead,” which previews the week in politics. His work can be found at http://firstread.msnbc.com. In October 2009, he and his wife Beth, a doctoral student at the University of Maryland in special education and learning disabilities, had their first child, Jack. Angela Rozas was named Chicago bureau chief of the Chicago Tribune. Rozas was previously the paper’s crime reporter. Michael Steel is press secretary for Senate Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio). Steel was a reporter at the National Journal Group from 2000 to 2002. 2004 Petra Bartosiewicz M.A. ’06 had a story in the November issue of Harper’s Magazine titled “The Intelligence Factory.” Ryan Blitstein is a regular contributor to AOL’s DailyFinance, where his reporting focuses primarily on sectors with a strong presence in the Midwest, including legal/accounting, transportation/infrastructure and food/ agribusiness. Blitstein remains a Chicago-based freelancer for publications including Time and Fast Company, as well as a contributing editor at Miller-McCune. Claire Hoffman was married to Benjamin Goldhirsh on Aug. 29 in Los Angeles. Hoffman is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone magazine and is an assistant professor of journalism at the UC Riverside. Goldhirsh is a founder and the chief executive of Good, a Web site, magazine and production company in Los Angeles that provides coverage of social activism and culture. He is also a director of the Goldhirsh Foundation in Boston, which provides significant support for brain cancer research. Lane Johnson left New York and his post as the photo editor at amNewYork, photo adjunct at the J-School and freelance magazine photographer in March of 2008 to travel and photograph around the world for 10 months en route to San Jose, Calif., where his fiancée, Kristy, is now attending chiropractic school and where he is inventing a new life. Jeff Novich, an SAT tutor in New York City with Bespoke Education, conceived and created VocabSushi (http://www.vocabsushi.com). The VocabSushi philosophy asserts you can learn the meanings of words faster, more accurately and more efficiently by reading through sentences rather than just trying to memorize definitions. It provides thousands of sentences that demonstrate any vocabulary word’s actual use in news articles. Compared to the brute force method of flashcard definitions, the tutors who developed the program believe that a deeper understanding of a word can be attained easily and straightforwardly by reading actual, interesting sentences that contain that word. Patrick O’Connor was married to Katherine Gates Lindsey on Aug. 22 in Beaver Creek, Colo. O’Connor is a staff writer in the Washington office of Politico, a news Web site with headquarters in Arlington, Va. Lindsey is an associate at the Washington law firm Williams & Connolly. Tanya Rivero (Tanya Warren) is an anchor for ABC News Now, where she hosts two daily halfhour shows, “Good Morning America Health” and “Good Money.” She also covers breaking news and delivers news briefs for ABC’s 24-hour cable/ digital channel. 2005 5th class reunion April 22-24, 2010! Jenna Lee is a Fox Business anchor, whose duties include anchoring the 5:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. “Fox Business Morning” and the 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Web show “FoxBusiness.com Live.” 2006 Kimberly Holmes has joined WXIX-TV in Cincinnati as a nightside reporter. She previously worked as the weekend anchor/ reporter at WBOC-TV in Salisbury, Md. She also just received an award from the Religion Newswriters Association for her story “Prayer: The Heart and Soul of Religion.” 2007 Allison Bourne-Vanneck is a sports anchor/reporter with WLNS-TV (Lansing, Mich.) and won the women’s division of the NABJ golf tournament in Tampa. Her prize is a trip to Curacao. Ellen Gabler has joined the investigative team at the Chicago Tribune. Gabler was with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Deena Guzder (SIPA ’08) received a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grant to cover commercial sexual exploitation and human trafficking in Thailand. As a freelance journalist, her articles have appeared in Mother Jones, TIME magazine, National Geographic Traveler, Ms. magazine, Common Dreams and elsewhere. She is represented by William Clark Associates in NYC and is currently finishing her literary nonfiction book, “A Higher Calling: North American Religious Movements for Social Justice” (Chicago Review Press, 2010). Elizabeth Landau is a writer/producer at CNN.com in Atlanta, Ga. She reports on health and science news for the site and regularly appears on CNN.com’s video portal cnn.com/live to talk about her latest stories. She recently attended a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship “boot camp” on nanotechnology at M.I.T. Amanda Rivkin had work from her “Obamaland: The New Era,” series exhibited in the 10th International Photography Gathering in the Electric Building in Aleppo, Syria, in October. Two images featured in the show, which was previously exhibited in Chicago — a portrait of Barack Obama waving to crowds through bulletproof glass on election night 2008 that previously ran as a double truck in The London Sunday Times Magazine, and a New York Times front page picture of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich in his Springfield office his final day in office — were included in the more than 6,300 images shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize organized by the National Portrait Gallery in London. The two images also received an honorable mention in this year’s International Photography Awards. Amanda recently moved to Washington, D.C., upon receiving a significant scholarship from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service for a three-semester master’s degree program in security studies, where she will focus on terrorism and substate violence, which she hopes will enhance future coverage of regions of conflict and social upheaval beyond the well-worn narratives traditionally told by Western media. While in school, she is still accepting assignment work, and her Web site can be found at www.Amandarivkin.com. Tamar S. Snyder won second place in the Simon Rockower 2008 Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism for her article entitled “Anti-Semitism 2.0 Going Largely Unchallenged.” She covers business and philanthropy for The Jewish Week in New York. John Soltes was recently recognized by the New Jersey Press Association and Society of Professional Journalists for his work at The Leader newspaper in northern New Jersey, where he serves as editor in chief. Soltes won first place in enterprising reporting from the NJSPJ for a piece on the state’s efforts to prepare New Jersey for a natural disaster. He also received the Wilson Barto Award for a piece entitled “The Railroad to Nowhere” and shared an award for reporting and writing a fivepart series on the controversial EnCap development in the Meadowlands region. Sam Stein was married to Jessica Leinwand on Sept. 6 in Vermont. They met at Dartmouth College and both attended Columbia University. Leinwand earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School. The couple live in Washington, D.C. Stein, a reporter for The Huffington Post, has worked for Newsweek magazine, the New York Daily News and the investigative journalism group Center for Public Integrity. Cassandra Vinograd was moved (with her whole team) from Brussels to London. After several months, they recently launched http://online.wsj.com/mideast. William Wheeler and Anna- Katarina Gravgaard are in Bangladesh on a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, finishing up a five-month environmental reporting project continued on page 16
ook shelF — 1956 William Beecher’s third novel, “The Acorn Dossier,” focuses on caches of weapons, including some nuclear suitcase bombs, hidden in the West, including the U.S., during the Cold War in case it suddenly turned hot. A renegade Russian general unearths some nukes and threatens to devastate some American cities unless paid a huge ransom. Two hunter killer teams — one led by the FBI, the other dispatched from Moscow — race to eliminate the general before he can trigger a possible missile exchange between the two countries. 1961 Joan Konner, dean emerita and professor emerita, has conceived and edited “You Don’t Have to Be Buddhist to Know Nothing: An Illustrious Collection of Thoughts on Naught” (Prometheus Books, October 2009). Her first collection “The Atheist’s Bible: An Illustrious Collection of Irreverent Quotes” (ECCO Harper/Collins, 2007) was a National Bestseller. Dean Konner introduced and taught the course on “Covering Ideas.” 1964 Lewis M. Simons and his co-author Senator Christopher S. Bond have written “The Next Front: Southeast Asia and the Road to Global Peace with Islam” (John Wiley & Sons, September 2009), which argues that Southeast Asia, and especially Indonesia, will be the next hot spot in the war on terror. The authors propose that the U.S., having lost credibility with failed military efforts in the Middle East, deploy “smart power” — civilians — instead of soldiers to defuse anger and create alternatives to violent movements. Lew is married to J-School classmate Carol Seiderman Simons. He is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting and the School’s Alumni Award. 1967 Constance Rosenblum, former editor of the City section of The New York Times and currently a writer of the Habitats column for the paper’s Sunday Real Estate section, is the author of the new book “Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx” (NYU Press, August 2009). The publication of the book, which tells the story of one of the nation’s iconic streets, coincides with the boulevard’s centennial. Details of her speaking engagements in New York City and beyond are available on the book’s Web site, http:// www.boulevard-of-dreams.com. 1978 Richard S. Ehrlich is one of the main researchers and writers of a newly published book titled “Chronicle of Thailand: Headline News since 1946” (Editions Didier Millet). The book documents, among other events, America’s often brutal involvement in Thailand during the widening U.S.- Vietnam War, plus Thailand’s military dictators who napalmed their own northern hill tribes and hunted down suspected Chinese and other communists while the Southeast Asian nation was roiled by 18 coups and attempted putsches. 1984 Judith D. Schwartz has written “The Therapist’s New Clothes,” a memoir about training as a psychotherapist — and a cautionary tale about the seductions of therapy. Schwartz, a freelance writer based in Vermont, has brought this out as a publishing experiment, using the Espresso Book Machine at the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, Vt. She has a blog that explores the implications of new publishing models: http://litadventuresinpod. blogspot.com. 1985 Scott James’ latest novel, written under the pen name Kemble Scott, is now out in hardcover. Originally launched as a digital edition, “The Sower” was the first novel sold by giant social publisher Scribd.com. That led to national media coverage, and now Numina Press is publishing the first printed edition. The time from when James signed the contract to when the book hit stores was only 29 days, a very fast turnaround for the publishing industry. In an unusual partnership for the hardcover release, James restricted sales of books from the first printing to independent bookstores. 1988 Ingrid Abramovitch has published her first book, “Restoring a House in the City: A Guide to Renovating Town Houses, Brownstones, and Row Houses.” The book spotlights town house renovations in 10 cities and tells how the homeowners — a glamorous group that includes the actress Julianne Moore — restored their antique houses to their original glory. Abramovitch, a former editor at House & Garden magazine, writes widely on design. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Joel Simon (executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists) and their two daughters. For more information, please visit www.Restoringahouse.com and www.IngridAbramovitch.com. 1989 Rebecca Norris Webb and Alex Webb have published “Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba” (Radius Books, November 2009). This multilayered portrait of “the violet isle” — a littleknown name for Cuba inspired by the rich color of its soil — presents an engaging, at times unsettling, document of a vibrant and vulnerable land. To see a selection of images from “Violet Isle,” visit: http://www. webbnorriswebb.com. 1991 Jodie Gould has collaborated with image consultant Anna Wildermuth on “Change One Thing: Discover What’s Holding You Back and Fix It—with the Secrets of a Top Executive Image Consultant” (McGraw-Hill). Stephen Covey, author of the bestselling “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” said, “This superb book gives excellent advice to help jump-start your engine.” In addition to writing books and magazines articles, Gould is also a regular contributor to Harvard Health Publications. 1992 Greg Jaffe and David Cloud have written “The Fourth Star” (Random House), about the lives of Generals Petraeus, Casey, Abizaid and Chiarelli. Jaffe is the senior military reporter for The Washington Post. Collectively, their lives tell the story of the U.S. Army over the last four decades and illuminate the path it must travel to protect the nation over the next century. The careers of this elite quartet show how the most powerful military force in the world entered a major war unprepared and how the Army, drawing on a reservoir of talent that few thought it possessed, saved itself from crushing defeat against a ruthless, low-tech foe. 1994 Sasha Abramsky has written “Breadline USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger and How to Fix It” (Polipoint Press, June 2009), about the tens of millions of Americans who live in a continual state of anxiety about where their next meal is coming from and are suffering shame, despair and malnutrition. Abramsky is a freelance journalist and senior fellow at the New York City-based think tank Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action. His work has appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, New York magazine, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone. In 2000, he was awarded a Soros Society, Crime, and Communities Media Fellowship. He is also the author of “American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment,” “Hard Time Blues” and “Conned.” Elizabeth Trostler LaBan has published her first book, “The Grandparents Handbook: Games, Activities, Tips, How-Tos, and All-Around Fun” (Quirk Books). No longer content to sit on rockers and bake cookies, today’s grandparents are involved in the lives of their grandchildren more than ever before. “The Grandparents Handbook” features dozens of activities that will guarantee hours of fun, educational quality time. 1995 Kelley J. Tuthill, a breast cancer survivor and reporter at WCVB- TV (Boston), has written “You Can Do This! Surviving Breast Cancer without Losing Your Sanity or Your Style.” Tuthill shared her story, from discovery and diagnosis to recovery, with Channel 5 viewers through an Emmy award-winning diary she continues to update for TheBostonChannel. com. The book was written with Elisha Daniels, also a breast cancer survivor. 1998 Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, recognized internationally for his images of poverty and people throughout the world, is featured in the amazing new book published in Colombia titled “Colombia: Percepciones en Blanco & Negro” (Adéer Lyinad Ediciones). The book features 110 emerging photographers working throughout Colombia, South America. Rivera-Ortiz, a documentarian dedicated to picturing stories of hardship and hope in the third world, wrote the book’s introduction. His photos marry journalism and the very personal experience of his childhood growing up poor in outposts throughout Guayama, Puerto Rico. His award-winning work, which has appeared in magazines and newspapers in the United States and abroad, can be found in the permanent collections of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, as well as in private and corporate collections (www.rivera-ortiz.com). 2000 Chris Ballard has written his third book, “The Art of a Beautiful Game: A Thinking Fan’s Tour of the NBA” (Simon & Schuster/ Sports Illustrated Books, November 2009), which follows Ballard as he delves into the art and science of basketball, shadowing LeBron James for a week, breaking down Kobe Bryant’s killer instinct, challenging Steve Kerr to a 3-point shootout and looking at the game through the eyes of those who’ve mastered its various skills. Ballard is a senior continued on page 16 15
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