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18 Columbia Journalism sChool Winter 2010 alumni weekenD 2010 — For a list of accommodations, go to: http://alumni.columbia.edu/visit/s5_4.html To register for Alumni Weekend online, go to: http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/alumni/weekend2010 Questions? Contact the Alumni Office at 212-854-3864 or e-mail jalumni@columbia.edu SCheDule oF evenTS (subject to change) ThurSDay, aPril 22, 2010 5:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. HAPPY HOUR 7:00 p.m. 2009 HEARST NEW MEDIA LECTURE Steven Berlin Johnson, noted digital media expert and author FriDay, aPril 23, 2010 10:00 a.m. - 12 noon HOW TO DEVELOP A BOOK PROPOSAL Professor Samuel G. Freedman Freedman teaches a course on how to prepare a book proposal. He is the author of six books, most recently “Who She Was: My Search for My Mother’s Life” (2005) and “Letters to a Young Journalist” (2006). Freedman was a staff reporter for The Times from 1981 through 1987 and currently writes the column “On Education,” as well as frequent articles on culture. Freedman was named the nation’s outstanding journalism educator in 1997 by the Society of Professional Journalists. His class in book-writing has developed more than 35 authors, editors, and agents, and it has been featured in Publishers Weekly and The Christian Science Monitor. 12 noon - 1:30 p.m. LUNCH Professor Samuel G. Freedman will also moderate a Lunchtime Discussion on “Do You Have a Book in You?” 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. HOW TO START YOUR OWN BUSINESS Professor Duy Linh Tu ’99, founder of Resolution Seven Ready to make that move to being yur own boss? Duy Linh Tu will walk you through the steps of forming your business, from incorporating to writing your business plan to making that first buck. Tu is a co-founder and the creative director of Resolution Seven, a commercial, documentary and DVD production studio. He is a writer, videographer, photographer and multimedia consultant. Prior to forming Resolution Seven, Tu founded and was the chief operations officer of Missing Pixel, an award-winning interactive production company. Tu has worked at ABC News in London and has shot for other major networks such as MTV, CBS News Productions and the Food Network, as well as for independent filmmakers. He is currently in production on two documentaries and travels to newsrooms nationally and internationally to provide consulting and training to multimedia journalists. 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. CAREER SERVICES OPEN HOUSE Meet the staff from the Office of Career Services, and hear about programs in place to assist our community of students and graduates. Pose questions about your career and get a few pointers about transitioning to a new position or advancing in your current job. As part of the open house, Gina Boubion, Assistant Director, will offer a workshop (2:30 p.m.) on the secrets of a winning cover letter and résumé. 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. COVERING CONFLICT Moderated by Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a project of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, providing journalists around the world with the resources necessary to produce informed, innovative and ethical news reporting, drawing on a global network of news professionals, mental health experts, educators and researchers. Shapiro will moderate a discussion with leading journalists covering conflicts and crises around the world. 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. COVERING THE FINANCIAL CRISIS Moderated by Andrew Serwer ’85, managing editor, Fortune Panelists include: Michael Rapoport ’85, Special Writer, Dow Jones Newswires; Jon Markman ’80, Markman Capital Insight LLC; Jenna Lee ’05, Anchor, Fox Business Network; and Allan Dodds Frank ’70, contributor, The Daily Beast, and president, Overseas Press Club of America How have journalists covered the financial crisis? Lots of stories get written every week, but did reporters make it clear that something truly unusual was building? And if reporters hit the right notes, did any of the warnings even matter? 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. DEAN’S PANEL Nicholas Lemann, Bill Grueskin, Arlene Morgan and Sree Sreenivasan ’93 Every day it becomes more obvious that journalism is undergoing a historic shift and the Journalism School has a major challenge and a major opportunity before it. Join Dean Nicholas Lemann, Academic Dean Bill Grueskin, Associate Dean Arlene Morgan and Dean of Students Sree Sreenivasan as they deliver a “state of the school” and discuss how the Journalism School is helping to shape the future of journalism. 5:00 p.m. STUDENT-LED TOURS OF BUILDING Meet in Journalism Lobby 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. ALUMNI AWARDS CEREMONY The Alumni Awards are given to alumni of the Graduate School of Journalism for a distinguished journalism career in any medium, for an outstanding single accomplishment in journalism, for notable contributions to journalism education, or for achievement in related fields. The 2010 Alumni Award winners are: M. Charles Bakst ’67 retired as The Providence Journal political columnist. He began his journalism career while a student at Brown University, where he was the editor of The Brown Daily Herald and was an intern at The Providence Journal for three consecutive summers. After graduating, he was an intern with Life magazine, before enrolling at the Journalism School. Following Columbia, he was an intern at the Public Broadcast Laboratory (TV) in New York until February 1968, when he began working fulltime for The Providence Journal, retiring 40 years later. From 1972 on, Bakst focused on politics for The Journal, starting with State House bureau, becoming bureau chief in late 1976; from late 1987 to early 1995 he was government affairs editor and Sunday columnist; from early 1995 on he was fulltime political columnist doing at least three columns a week. His daughter, Diane, is from the Journalism School Class of 1993. John Quiñones ’79 is the Emmy Award-winning co-anchor of ABC newsmagazine “Primetime” and has been with the network nearly 25 years. He is the sole anchor of the “Primetime” limited series “What Would You Do?,” one of the highest-rated newsmagazine franchises of recent years. During his tenure he has reported extensively for ABC News, predominantly serving as a correspondent for “Primetime” and “20/20.” Quiñones’ has been honored with a Gabriel Award for his poignant report that followed a young man to Colombia, as he made an emotional journey to reunite with his birth mother after two decades. Other stories originating from Central America
include political and economic turmoil in Argentina and civil war in El Salvador. During the ’80s he spent nearly a decade in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama reporting for “World News Tonight.” Quiñones has won seven national Emmy Awards for his “Primetime Live,” “Burning Questions” and “20/20” work. Among his other honors are the First Prize in International Reporting and Robert F. Kennedy Prize for his piece on “Modern Slavery — Children Sugar Cane Cutters in the Dominican Republic.” Ron Suskind ’83 is a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist, an author and teacher, who has written some of America’s most important works of nonfiction, framing national debates while exploring the complexities of human experience. His latest book, “The Way of the World” (August 2008), is a multilayered narrative about the forces at home and abroad fighting today’s battles for hope and security. His previous book, “The One Percent Doctrine” (June 2006), is the definitive work on how the U.S. government frantically improvised to fight a new kind of war after 9/11. And his book, “A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League,” which follows the three-year path of an African- American religious honor student from a blighted Washington, D.C., high school through the end of his freshman year at Brown University, is one of the all-time most acclaimed books on the subject of race and class. It was launched by The Wall Street Journal series for which Suskind won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. Arnold Zeitlin ’56, visiting professor at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in Guangzhou, China, has devoted himself to improving the performance of students and working journalists in the developing world. Zeitlin started working for the Associated Press while still a journalism student and worked as a correspondent and overseas bureau chief for the AP for nearly 30 years, covering civil wars and martial law in Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines. He was the pool reporter aboard the U.S. Seventh Fleet command ship for the April 1975 U.S. evacuation of Vietnam. In 1961, Zeitlin interrupted his journalism career to serve for two years as a teacher in Ghana with the first group of Peace Corps volunteers. He wrote a book about his experience, “To the Peace Corps, With Love” (Doubleday 1965). Zeitlin’s career has taken him to Bangladesh, to launch a weekly English newspaper, to Hong Kong, for United Press International, and to China, where he has been a visiting professor and consultant to a unique English-language undergraduate journalism program at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. A special alumni award will be given to Lydia Polgreen ’00, foreign correspondent for The New York Times, for her coverage of Africa’s deadliest and most complex conflicts, from the crisis in Darfur, Chad and the Central African Republic to the continuing chaos in Congo. Polgreen is based in New Delhi and, along with a team of two other correspondents, she covers India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan and the Maldives. From 2005 to 2009, she was the West Africa correspondent for The Times. Her work in Africa has been recognized with numerous prizes, including the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting, an Overseas Press Club award and the Livingston Award for International Reporting. 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. ALUMNI AWARDS RECEPTION AND BOOK SIGNING BY ALUMNI AUTHORS Books written by alumni authors in 2009 will be on display, and alumni authors will be available to sign their books from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The Alumni Book Fair has become one of the most popular events during Alumni Weekend, with dozens of graduates participating in the book signing following the Alumni Awards ceremony. We invite authors who have published a book between April 2009 and April 2010 to participate in the Book Fair on Friday, April 23, from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the Rotunda of Low Library. Books published by the authors will be on display and for sale during the reception. Our office will work with the Columbia University Bookstore to order copies of your book. If you would like to participate in the Alumni Book Fair or if you have any questions, please contact our office (jalumni@columbia.edu) by March 1, 2010, and we will send you a form to complete. SaTurDay, aPril 24, 2010 8:30 a.m. CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. SOCIAL MEDIA SKILLS FOR JOURNALISTS: PRACTICAL TIPS FOR CHANGING MEDIA LANDSCAPE 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Part 1: Basics of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn 9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Part 2: Intermediate/Advanced material from the course Professor Sree Sreenivasan ’93, Dean of Students Having a tough time keeping up with all the technology changes around you? Worried that there’s some new tech tip, cool site or social networking tool that all your friends and family already know about but you don’t? Then this fast-paced seminar aimed at writers and other media professionals is for you. You will learn about some terrific new ideas that will make you more efficient, help you with your work, and improve your online life. You will leave with more than 10 ideas, a useful handout and a whole new outlook on technology. After this, YOU will be the one showing off to your friends and family. 11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. CLASS PHOTOS 12 noon ALUMNI LUNCHEON Low Library Rotunda Presentation of the Dean’s Medal for Public Service to Michèle Montas ’69 Michèle Montas is an award-winning journalist who has dedicated her life to securing democracy and freedom in Haiti (see profile, page 10). Keynote Speaker: Walt Mossberg ’70, Personal Technology Columnist, The Wall Street Journal Walter Mossberg has been the country’s most influential reviewer and commentator on technology for nearly 20 years. He is a champion of the average consumer, a skeptic of technology for its own sake, and a sharp critic of the technology companies when they fail the consumer. Just as readers have long sought informed opinions about theater, film, politics, sports and other traditional topics, they now hunger for similar guidance on technology products and issues. And Walt is the columnist they turn to most often, and with the most confidence. Beloved by readers, respected by the industry he covers, and widely followed across the Web, Walt Mossberg offers a shining example of how newspaper journalism can still be relevant and influential in the Internet age. 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. CAREER SERVICES OPEN HOUSE Meet the staff from the Office of Career Services, and hear about programs in place to assist our community of students and graduates. Pose questions about your career and get a few pointers about transitioning to a new position or advancing in your current job. 2:30 p.m. STUDENT-LED TOURS OF BUILDING 2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM Dean Nicholas Lemann and Professor Michael Schudson 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CLASS OF 1965 MEETING 3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. FOX/MSNBC ET AL.: IS PARTISANSHIP JOURNALISM? Moderated by Ferrel Guillory ’70, director of the Program on Public Life Center for the Study of the American South (University of North Carolina) Panelists will include Courtney Hazlett ’05, MSNBC.com; Robert Papper ’70, Lawrence Stessin Distinguished Professor in Journalism and chair of the Department of Journalism, Media Studies and Public Relations at Hofstra University (N.Y.); and Betty Winston Baye ’80, editorial writer and columnist, The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.). 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. DEAN’S HAPPY HOUR FOR 25TH AND 50TH REUNION CLASSES For members of the classes of 1960 and 1985 6:30 p.m. on CLASS SOCIALS 19
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