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Columbia Journalism School Lectures, Panels & Conversations

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where important discussions on the media happen

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FALL 2009 - see other semesters via tabs aboveThe events highlighted in yellow are this week's events.

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DATETIME PLACETOPIC

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Monday, Aug. 176:30-8:30 p.m.Lecture HallTALK: "Covering a Beat" by Prof. SIG GISSLER, former editor of the Milwaukee Journal and administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes.

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Tuesday, Aug. 186:30-8:30 p.m.Lecture HallPRESENTATION: "Telling Stories with Sound" by award-winning radio reporter and producer DAVID ISAY of SoundPortraits.org.

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Wednesday, Aug. 196:30-8:30 p.m.Lecture HallWORKSHOP: "Web Tips and Tricks I: 10 New Tech Things to Try Today" by Prof. SREE SREENIVASAN.

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Thursday, Aug. 206:30-8:30 p.m.Lecture HallWORKSHOP: “New York by the Numbers” by FRANK SALVO & JOE VARDY, New York City planning department share their insights (and hard numbers) about a changing NYC.

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Friday, Aug. 214-5 p.m.Stabile Student CenterJ-SCHOOL MEETS THE WORLD: {Pakistan/Afghanistan} Shah Rifat Alam, veteran Pakistani journalist and deputy editor of GEO TV talks about his work and the AfPak situation

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Friday, Aug. 214-5 p.m.Stabile Student CenterJ-SCHOOL MEETS THE WORLD: {Africa/France} Oumar Barry, journalist specializng in Africa and French issues.

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Monday, Aug. 247-9 p.m.Lecture HallTALK: ERIC BATES, J'84, executive editor of Rolling Stone magazine.

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Wednesday, Aug. 266:30-8:30 p.m.Lecture HallTALK: "Making Things Happen: A Process Approach to Planning" with Prof. CHIP SCANLAN.

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Thursday, Aug. 276:30-8:30 p.m.Lecture HallWORKSHOP: "Web Tips and Tricks II: Smarter Surfing on Deadline: Better Use
of Your Web Time" by Prof. SREE SREENIVASAN & ARIK HESSELDAHL, J'97. Hesseldahl (arik@arik.org), a senior tech writer at BusinessWeek, joins Sreenivasan as they share their best tips on finding information on deadline.

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Tuesday, Sept. 17:30-9:30 p.m.Lecture HallTALK: "Death on a Deadline," by New York Times obituary writer MARGALIT FOX, '91.

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Wednesday, Sept. 26:30-8:30 p.m.Lecture HallTALK: RACHEL DRETZIN of "Frontline." Dretzin has been producing long-form documentaries for the PBS series FRONTLINE since the early 1990s. Her current project, Digital Nation<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/>, is a pioneering venture for her as well as for FRONTLINE -- an experiment in open source documentary film producing.

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Friday, Sept. 410:30 a.m.-12 p.m.Lerner Hall cinemaTALK: Dean BILL GRUESKIN on journalism trends - his annual talk to the entire school about how the media is changing and how students can make the most of those changes during their time at the school.

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Thursday, Sept. 10Noon-1 pmStabile Student CenterTALK: Harvey Levin, founder of TMZ.com, discusses his work and the world of celebrity journalism - including how he broke the news about the death of Michael Jackson.

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Thursday, Sept. 177-9 p.m.Lecture HallPANEL: "Managing Your Journalism Career," by Assistant Dean ERNEST SOTOMAYOR and his colleagues from Career Services.

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Thursday, Sept. 247-9 p.m.Lecture HallWORKSHOP: "Fault Lines" with DORI MAYNARD, a discussion about diversity issues including race, class, gender, generation and geography.

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Tuesday, Sept. 294-5 p.m.Stabile Student CenterTALK: "Losing the News," a student discussion with ALEX JONES from Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.

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Thursday, Oct. 16:30-8 p.m. (Bruni booksigning from 6-6:30 p.m.)Lecture HallPANEL: "Food Journalism: Well Fed and Well Said," a panel moderated by Dean NICK LEMANN that includes KELLY CHOI, '99, host, "Top Chef Masters"; FRANK BRUNI, '88, former restaurant critic of the New York Times and author of "Born Round"; and KEITH GOGGIN, '91, partner in restaurants, including molecular gastronomy pioneer Alinea in Chicago.

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Monday, Oct. 512:30-1:30 p.m.Stabile Student CenterTALK: "New tools for Journalists" by BEN PARR, co-editor of Mashable.com, one of the world's most popular blogs. Live blogging at http://bit.ly/bencolumbiaj

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Tuesday, Oct. 612:30-1:30 p.m.Stabile Student CenterSPJ BROWN-BAG SERIES: David Wessel, '81, economics editor of the Wall Street Journal and author of the new book "In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic."

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Tuesday, Oct. 66:30-8 pm.Lecture HallTALK: JAMES TRAUB, of the New York Times magazine, in conversation with S.I.P.A. Prof. JACK SNYDER. First in the year-long "Covering Conflict" series co-sponsored by the journalism school, the university's Institute for Religion, Culture & Public Life, and S.I.P.A.'s Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration & Religion.

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Wednesday, Oct. 75:30-7 p.m.World RoomPANEL: "In Afghanistan: Reporting America's War," a conversation with BBC Developing World Correspondent DAVID LOYN and Sunday Times of London reporter CHRISTINA LAMB. Sponsored by the Dart Center and moderated by BRUCE SHAPIRO. *Please R.S.V.P. to Kate Black at kate.black@dartcenter.org.*

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Thursday, Oct. 87-9 p.m.Lecture HallTALK: "Covering Violence: What Every Journalist Needs to Know" with BRUCE SHAPIRO of the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma.

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Monday, Oct. 1212:30-1:30 p.m.Stabile Student CenterSPJ BROWN-BAG SERIES: Borzou Daragahi, '94, the Los Angeles Times bureau chief based in Beirut, has covered war, politics, culture and commerce in the Middle East for print and broadcast outlets since 2002. He joined the Times in 2005.

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Tuesday, Oct. 135-7 p.m.Lecture HallPANEL: "Arriving at the Truth in the Americas," conversation with 2009 Cabot Prize winners ANTHONY DEPALMA, CHRISTOPHER HAWLEY and MERVAL PEREIRA, and past medalist and Cabot Board member DAVID ADAMS. It will be moderated by TOM TREBAT, the executive director of Columbia University's Institute of Latin American Studies. Celebrating its 70th anniversary as the oldest international award in journalism, the Cabot Prize honors journalists who have covered the Western hemisphere and, through their reporting and editorial work, have furthered inter-American understanding.

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Thursday, Oct. 156:30-8:30 p.m.Lecture HallPANEL: "Will They Ever Learn? The Media and the Iraq War," a discussion between Dean NICK LEMANN and Council on Foreign Relations president emeritus LES GELB, P.B.S. ombudsman MICHAEL GETLER and Columbia Journalism Review contributing editor MICHAEL MASSING. This event is co-sponsored by Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.

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Monday, Oct. 1912:15-1:15 pmStabile Student CenterJ-SCHOOL MEETS THE WORLD: {Brazil} ROBERTO CIVITA, Chairman of Brazilian media conglomerate Grupo Abril, and Prof. JOSE ROBERTO WHITAKER PENTEADO, director of corporate relations of ESPM University in Sao Paulo, are visiting the J-school to learn about how we work and to meet faculty and students

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Thursday, Oct. 226:30-7:30 p.m.
Lecture HallPANEL: "The Reconstruction of American Journalism" with Dean NICHOLAS LEMANN, former Washington Post executive editor LEONARD DOWNIE and Prof. MICHAEL SCHUDSON.

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Wednesday, Oct. 286:30-8 pm.Lecture HallTALK: Newsweek editor JON MEACHAM in conversation with RANDALL BALMER, professor of American religious history at Barnard College. Second in the year-long "Covering Conflict" series co-sponsored by the journalism school, the university's Institute for Religion, Culture & Public Life, and S.I.P.A.'s Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration & Religion.

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Thursday, Nov. 57-9 p.m.
Lecture HallWORKSHOP:"Writing Tools for Journalists" with the Poynter Institute's ROY PETER CLARK. The legendary writing teacher who's worked with tens of thousands of writers and dozens of newsrooms share his wisdom and tips in a fun, music-filled session. A link to articles to read before the talk will be added here soon.

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Thursday, Nov. 126:30-9 p.m.Lecture HallPANEL: "The Changing Media Landscape, 2009." The Hearst Foundation & the J-School's Digital Media Program present the Columbia-Hearst Journalism Dialogues, our annual look at the journalism revolution. Participants will include JULIA ANGWIN, WSJ technology editor and author of "Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America"; JOHN BORTHWICK, CEO of Betworks, a VC firm that invests/owns shares in many Web 2.0 companies, including bit.ly, Twitter, TweetDeck,Tumblr, Outside.in, gdgt.; ALAN LEVY, founder of BlogTalkRadio.com, an Internet-radio network offering free call-in talk shows; DAVID MATHISON, author of "Be The Media: How to Create and Accelerate Your Message ... Your Way" and former VP for global syndication for Reuters; and JENNIFER PRESTON, the first (and current) social media editor of New York Times. Prof. SREE SREENIVSAN will moderate. The discussion and live Webcast (http://livestream.com/columbiajournalism) will take place from 7 to 8:30 p.m., with networking receptions before and after. Wi-fi available for bloggers.

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Thursday, Nov. 197-8 p.m.Book Culture, 536 West 112th Street, New York, NY 10027TALK: New Republic music critic and J-School Prof. DAVID HADJU in conversation with JAMES MARCUS, the literary editor of Columbia Journalism Review, on arts criticism in general and Hadju's new book in particular. The book, "Heroes and Villians," is Hadju's first collection of essays and take on topics as varied as pop music, jazz, the avant-garde, comic books, and our downloading culture.

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Wednesday, Dec. 26:30-8 pm.Lecture Hall
TALK: DAVID SHIPLEY, deputy editorial page editor and op-ed editor at The New York Times, in conversation with Columbia University Religion Department Chairman MARK C. TAYLOR. Third in the year-long "Covering Conflict" series co-sponsored by the journalism school, the university's Institute for Religion, Culture & Public Life, and S.I.P.A.'s Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration & Religion.

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