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Columbia Journalism School All-Class Lectures

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Unless otherwise indicated: Tuesday evenings, 7-9 p.m. at the Columbia J-school Lecture Hall, 3rd Floor, 116th St & Broadway, NYC 10027 (#1 train to 116th St)

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These are public lectures, with no RSVP needed. All students, faculty, adjuncts and staff are encouraged to attend. Events highlighted in green are mandatory for all full-time M.S. students

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These are all included in the J-school's Google Calendar. You can import these directly into your calendar here: http://snurl.com/columbiajschool

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Questions to Dean Sreenivasan: sree@sree.netshortcut to this page: http://snurl.com/columbialectures........signup to get alerts about future Columbia Journalism School events: http://snurl.com/columbiasignup

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 ..... last updated: Nov. 10, 2008

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Date - unless otherwise indicated - 7-9 pmTopic

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Tuesday, Sept. 9thCharting a Career Path: An overview of developing a job-hunting strategy; academic and post-graduate internships; what to plan for as graduation approaches; and a general Q & A on careers. Speakers: Ernest Sotomayor, Asst. Dean for Career Servicesand colleagues

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Wednesday, Sept. 10Seven years after 9/11. A conversation with Jim Sciutto, the London-based senior foreign correspondent of ABC News and author of "Against Us: The New Face of America's Enemies in the Muslim World." He will discuss what the state of foreign reporting, his view from overseas and his book, which has been described by BookList as offering "much-needed light on dark geopolitical realities."
Prof. Nathaniel Persily of the Law School will introduce Sciutto and moderate the Q&A.

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Tuesday, Sept. 16thA conversation about the 2008 Presidential Elections: Prof. Thomas Edsall, political director of The Huffington Post and long-time Washington Post political reporter, will moderate a discussion between strategists from the Democratic and Republican sides. Representing the Republicans: Alex Castellanos, who has been called "a new style media master" (Fortune), has served as media consultant to five presidential campaigns and helped elect six senators and eight governors. Representing the Democrats: Jonathan Prince, former deputy campaign manager and co-chief strategist for the John Edwards campaign and former adviser in the Clinton White House as well as both Bill Clinton campaigns.

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Thursday, Sept. 1812:30-2 pm in the Student Center: Jen Lin-Liu, J2000, will discuss freelancing overseas, working in China and writing a successful book proposal. Newsweek's Shanghai correspondent from 2002-2004, she is the author of "Serve thePeople: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China" (Houghton Mifflin, July 2008). Prof. Sig Gissler will moderate.

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Tuesday, Sept. 23rdFarnaz Fassihi, J'99, WSJ's senior Middle East correspondent, will discuss covering Iraq and the Middle East and her new book, "Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq" (PublicAffairs Books, Sept. 2008). See NOTES FROM: http://snurl.com/3uc5m

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Monday, Sept. 29th5:15-6:15 pm in the Student Center: Courtney Kealy, J1997, will discuss working overseas as a television journalist and a photojournalist. She has been based in the Middle East for 10 years, covering various conflicts and major stories for major media outlets. Since July 2005, she been reporting for Fox News from Baghdad. More on her, including video, at http://www.courtneykealy.com/

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Tuesday, Sept. 30th5-6:30 pm - Working in the Middle East - H. Michael Jalili, J'2004, staff reporter with The National in Abu Dhabi, meets with students in another of our series of sessions on working abroad. Jalili will talk about working in the Middle East, his career path from a small town daily in upstate New York to the newest major newspaper in the Middle East. He'll offer tips on careers, foreign reporting and post-J-school life.

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Wednesday, Oct 1,Reporting Your Long-form Project - a workshop by Prof. Paula Span (identical to Oct 3 session) / Room 607B

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Friday, Oct 3Reporting Your Long-form Project - a workshop by Prof. Paula Span (identical to Oct 1 session) / World Room

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Tuesday, Oct. 7th6:30-8 pm: PANEL: Metro Reporting In New York
* Bobby Cuza, NY1, Reporter and Anchor
* Patrick Hedlund, Chelsea Now, Managing Editor
* Billie Cohen, Time Out New York, Deputy Editor
* Sarah Norris, The Villager, Downtown Express, Chelsea Now, Arts Editor
Ever want to know what reporting in New York is really like? This panel goes beyond RW1, with experienced reporters who will tell you what life is like as an actual metro reporter in the Big Apple. They'll discuss beats, how to deal with the city, gettingassignments, and answer all your questions. They'll also bediscussing how metro reporting can be an important way to start outand move up in a media company.

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Thursday, Oct. 9thNoon-1 pm, Stabile Student Center. Covering the U.S. Elections for the International Press.... Want to know what kind of stories the rest of the world is looking for this election season? Are you an international student looking to freelance election pieces back home? This Thursday, SPJ will be holding an informal panel of experienced foreign journalists working in New York. The participants will answer your questions about covering the election for a non-American audience and how to pitch election stories to editors halfway around the world. Speakers include: Paola Messana, New York Bureau Chief, Agence France-Presse * Aziz Haniffa - Editor, India Abroad.

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Friday, Oct. 10th5-6 pm: DISCUSSION: Meet the team behind "Journey into America" - a Muslim professor's discovery of the United States. Prof. Akbar Ahmed and his students from American University will discuss their unusual project athat follows up on his "Journey into Islam" project. More on the prject at http://journeyintoamerica.wordpress.com

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Tuesday, Oct. 14thA conversation about polling and journalism: Prof. Bob Shapiro, from the Columbia Political Science department, and Matthew Dowd, ABC News political contributor (and chief political strategist for the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign), will talk about the use of polling in election coverage.

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Wednesday, Oct. 15th5-7 pm: PANEL: The End of the Bush Administration & The Americas. A panel of the 2008 winners of Maria Moors Cabot Awards: http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cabot

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Tuesday, Oct. 21stStabile Center opening - no lecture

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Wednesday, Oct. 22nd7-9 pm: TALK: Andrew Rosenthal, opinion editor, The New York Times

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Tuesday, Oct. 28thNo lecture

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Thursday, Oct. 30th5-7 pm: TALK: Rafat Ali, founder, PaidContent.org. Learn how this independent blogger carved out a special niche in journalism (and sold his site to the Guardian for $30 million)

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Tuesday, Nov. 4thElection Day - no lecture... See all the student elections coverage at http://www.columbiajournalist.org

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Tuesday, Nov. 11th"Changing Media Landscape, 2008"
Columbia J-school's annual look at the media revolution, with several media
influencers - and no Powerpoint!

Columbia-Hearst Journalism Dialogues
and the Columbia Journalism Alumni Association present
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
6:30-9 pm (reception from 6:30-7 pm)

Sewell Chan, blogger/bureau chief, New York Times "City Room" blog (coming from midtown)
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/

David Cohn, J2008, founder, Spot.us, a new crowdfunding investigative
journalism project; winner of $300,000 Knight News Challenge grant (coming
from San Francisco) - http://spot.us
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/weekinreview/24kershaw.html

Adriano Farano, executive editor, CafeBabel.com - the first multilingual
European current affairs online magazine (coming from Paris)
http://www.cafebabel.com

Erica Smith, news designer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and "Paper Cuts"
blogger (coming from St. Louis)
http://graphicdesignr.net/papercuts

Jacob Weisberg, chairman and editor-in-chief Slate Group - Slate, Slate V,
The Root, and the Big Money - (coming from downtown)
http://www.slate.com

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Tuesday, Nov. 18th7:30-8:30 pm: Dean Lemann: How to think about your Master's Project & Thesis... Two-part lecture PART I

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Wednesday, Nov. 19thTwo back-to-back events
Wednesday, Nov. 19
4-5 pm with Robert Rosenthal of Center for Investigative Reporting
5-6 pm with Jane Mayer of the New Yorker and Andrew Revkin of NYT

TALK: The State of Investigative Journalism Today
Robert Rosenthal, executive director, Center for Investigative
Reporting (visiting from Berkeley, California)
http://www.centerforinvestigativereporting.org

4-5 pm, Stabile Student Center
Columbia Journalism School (116th St and Broadway)

An award-winning journalist with nearly 40 years of experience, Rosenthal
became Executive Director of CIR in January of this year. Before joining CIR
he worked for some of the most respected newspapers in the country,
including the New York Times, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer and, most
recently, the San Francisco Chronicle. Since September of 2007 he has also
led a group of reporters representing numerous Bay Area media organizations
investigating the August 2007 assassination of Chauncey Bailey, editor of
the Oakland (Calif.) Post.

As a reporter, Rosenthal won numerous awards, including the Overseas Press
Club Award for magazine writing, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for distinguished
foreign correspondence, the National Association of Black Journalists Award
for Third World Reporting, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in
international reporting.

Rosenthal worked for 22 years at the Inquirer as reporter, foreign
correspondent, city editor, and foreign editor, associate managing editor
and as editor and executive vice president. From 1982 through 1986, he was
the Inquirer¹s Africa correspondent based in Nairobi, Kenya. He reported in
25 countries in Africa. He covered the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982
and spent three months in Beirut in 1983-84. Before joining the Inquirer in
1979, Rosenthal worked as a reporter for six years at The Boston Globe and
three-and-a-half years at The New York Times, where he was a news assistant
on the foreign desk and an editorial assistant on the Pulitzer-Prize winning
Pentagon Papers project.

====>>>>> followed by 5-6 pm in the Lecture Hall
Columbia Journalism School (116th St and Broadway)

DISCUSSION: Jane Meyer of The New Yorker and Andrew Revkin, J'82, of the NYT

A conversation with the 2008 John Chancellor Award winners about two
of the most critical subjects of the day: civil liberties and climate
change. Mayer will discuss her best-selling book "The Dark Side" and
Revkin will talk about his Times blog Dot Earth.

Prof. Sheila Coronel will talk to Mayer and Prof. Marguerite Holloway
will talk to Revkin before we open it up to questions.

More about this year's Chancellor Award winners:
http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/chancellor Questions: Abi E. Wright
<aew2113@columbia.edu>

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Tuesday, Nov. 25thM.S. Spring Course Preview

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Thursday, Nov. 27thTHANKSGIVING

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Tuesday, Dec. 2ndA conversation with Gail Collins, Op-ed columist, The New York Times. She will look back at the elections and also look ahead to the newly-elected administration.

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Thursday, Dec. 4thWriting Your Long-form Project - a workshop by Prof. Paula Span (identical to Dec. 10 session) / World Room

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Tuesday, Dec. 9th7-8 pm: Dean Lemann: How to think about your Master's Project & Thesis... Two-part lecture PART II

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Wednesday, Dec. 10th Writing Your Long-form Project - a workshop by Prof. Paula Span (identical to Dec. 4 session) / World Room

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Questions to Dean Sreenivasan: sree@sree.net

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