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Columbia Journalism School Lectures & Panels: Where Important Journalism Conversations Happen

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Unless otherwise indicated, all sessions are at Columbia J-school [3rd Floor Lecture Hall or lobby floor Stabile Student Center], 116th St & Broadway, NYC 10027 (#1 train to 116th St) - ALL SESSIONS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE

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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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 ..... last updated: May 7, 2009

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Date, Time & RoomTopic

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Wednesday, Jan. 21, 6-7:15 pm; Lecture HallTALK: KIMBERLY DOZIER, CBS Iraq correspondent whose new book is "Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Report and Survive the War in Iraq," about being injured as part of a car bombing. http://www.kimberlydozier.com

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Friday, Jan. 23, 9:30 am to 12:30 pm; Lecture Hall

The Alfred I duPont-Columbia University Awards Winners' Circle
9:30AM-10:30AM
CURRENT-TV: From Russia with Hate
CHRISTOF PUTZEL, correspondent & producer
LAUREN CERRE, co-producer
Moderated by Prof. Ann Cooper

10:30AM-11:30AM
CHICAGO PUBLIC RADIO, PRI, & NPR: The Giant Pool of Money
ALEX BLUMBERG, reporter & producer
ADAM DAVIDSON, reporter & producer
IRA GLASS, executive producer
Moderated by Prof. John Dinges

11:30AM-12:30PM
CNN: God's Warriors
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, correspondent
MARK NELSON, vice president and senior executive producer
Moderated by Prof. Betsy West

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Monday, Jan. 26, 8:15-9:15 am; Stabile Student CenterBreakfast with GWEN IFILL: Meet one of America's most influential journalists as she discusses her new book on Barack Obama; her experience moderating one of the debates; her career in journalism - PBS, NYT - and much more.

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Wednes, Jan. 28, 1-2 pm; Stabile Student CenterTALK: PETER HERFORD, former director of the broadcast program and long-term Columbia J-school prof, who now teaches journalism in China, will chat about life in China, journalism in China and anything else you'd like to know.

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Thurs, Jan. 29, 7-9 pm; Lecture HallDELACORTE LECTURE: David Andelman, editor, World Policy Journal

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Thurs, Feb. 5, 7-9 pm; Lecture HallDELCAORTE LECTURE: Mort Rosenblum, editor, Dispatches

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Friday, Feb. 6, 10-11 am; Stabile Student CenterTECH TALK: JIM BRADY, former executive editor, WashingtonPost.com. Meet one of the most influential new media journalists in the U.S. as he talks about his career, lessons from the online world and much, much more.

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Wed, Feb. 11, 4:45-6 pm; Stabile Student CenterTALK: ALICIA SHEPARD, the ombudsman of National Public Radio and author of two books, "Woodward & Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate" (2006, Wiley; chronicles the lives of the two journalists during and after their landmark investigation) and "Running Toward Danger: Stories Behind the Breaking News of 9/11" (2002; about how journalists covered the tragedy and the public roles they played). See her columns: http://www.npr.org/ombudsman

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Thurs, Feb. 12, 7-9 pm; Lecture HallDELACORTE LECTURE: Tina Brown, editor, The Daily Beast; former editor of The New Yorker

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Mon, Feb. 16, 10:45-noon; Stabile Student CenterTALK: SHEKHAR KAPUR, Oscar-nominated director of "Elizabeth" and several other movies, will discuss what journalists can learn about storytelling from the world of film.

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Thurs, Feb. 19, 7:30-9 pm; Lecture HallDELACORTE LECTURE: JOANNA COLES, editor in chief, Marie Claire

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Friday, Feb. 20, 9-10 am; Lecture HallTALK: CHRISTINE LAGARDE, the Finance Minister of France. Pulitzer Prize-winner James B. Stewart, Bloomberg professor of business journalism, interviews Christine Lagarde, Finance Minister for France and the first woman to head a Group of Eight economy. Winner of France's highest honor, the Legion d'honneur, Lagarde has already made history as the first female chairman of the global law firm Baker & McKenzie, where she was a noted labor and anti-trust lawyer. In 2007, Lagarde was ranked the 12th most influential woman in the world by Forbes magazine.

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Monday, Feb. 23, 4-6 pm; Lecture HallTALK: Prof. Jeff Sachs on “Promoting Global Understanding of Sustainable Development.” Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

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Tuesday, Feb. 24, 5:15-7 pm; Lecture HallFILM & PANEL: "T. Rex Walks Again"... Thomas Lucas Productions (http://www.tlproductions.com/) will preview their newest National Geographic documentary on Tuesday, February 24th, at the journalism school. How could a tiny Tyrannosaurus rex baby grow into a six-ton super carnivore? Dinosaur builder Hall Train and renowned paleoartist Jason Brougham team up with some top scientists to attempt to bring a new vision of T. rex to life. Will they be able to uncover the truth about this fascinating animal and create the world's most accurate, fully skinned, mechanical replica of a walking juvenile T. rex? Watch "T. Rex Walks Again" to find out. Filmmaker Thomas Lucas and two of the film's subjects--Hall Train of Hall Train Studios in Toronto and Jason Brougham of the American Museum of Natural History--will be available after the film to answer students' questions about making science documentaries, modeling dinosaurs and other related topics.

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Thurs, Feb. 26, 7:30-9 pm; Lecture HallDELCORTE LECTURE: RUTH REICHL, editor in chief, Gourmet

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Tuesday, March 3, 5-6 pm; Stabile Student CenterTECH TALK: MITCHELL BAKER, chief lizard wrangler and chairwoman, Mozilla Foundation, creators of Firefox. In 2005, she was named to Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world and one of BusinessWeek's 25 most influential people on the web. Here's your chance to meet a major technology leader; hear about some initiatives at Mozilla and the world of open-source projects; and discuss any other aspect of technology that interest you. She's based California, so this is a rare opportunity to interact with Baker.

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Thurs, March 5, 7:30-9 pm; Lecture HallDELACORTE LECTURE: J.C. Suares, art director (former art director of the NYT op-ed page and NYT Book Review)

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Tue, March 10, 5-7 pm; World RoomLERER LESSONS #1: Ken Lerer, chairman of The Huffington Post and this year's Hearst New Media Professional-in-Residence at the J-school, presents the first of his three spring talks about media entrepreneurship. This week's topic: "Putting Together a Business Plan For a Media Startup"

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Tue, March 10, 7-9 pm; Lecture HallPANEL: The Alumni Office and Alumni Association presents "The Future of Newspapers" - moderated by Professor James B. Stewart with Steve Swartz, president of Hearst Newspapers, and Norman Pearlstine, chief content officer Bloomberg, L.P. Please register by March 4, 2009: https://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/COU/events/event_order.cgi?mode=em&tmpl=events&event=2219005&admin_id=9001121|jnadmin

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Thurs, March 12, 7:30-9 pm; Lecture HallDELACORTE LECTURE: DANIEL PERES, editor in chief, Details

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Fri, March 13, 12:15-1:30 pm; Stabile Student CenterCAREERS TALK: JASON ALBA on Job Hunting 2.0. Meet Alba, founder of job-hunt-tracking site JibberJobber.com and author of "I’m On LinkedIn - Now What???" - http://imonlinkedinnowwhat.com/ and http://www.JasonAlba.com - as he discusses job hunting in the age of social media and his own entrepreneurial experience.

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Thurs, March 19, 6:30-8:30 pm; Lecture HallBOOK & TECH TALK: ANDREW LIH, author of "The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia" and China media expert and former Columbia J-school professor. This will be the first public launch of the book in NYC. Lih will be interviewed by his former student and Columbia alum Jonathan Dube, J'97. Dube is president of the Online News Association, the vice-president in charge of ABCNews.com and the publisher of CyberJournalist.net. See details about it at http://www.andrewlih.com Publicist for the book: Lauren.Hodapp@abc.com

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Tues, March 24, 4:30-6 pm; Stabile Student CenterBOOK TALK: MINAL HAJRATWALA, author, "Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 18, 2009) and alum of Prof. Sam Freedman's Book Writing Seminar... http://www.minalhajratwala.com - "I love Minal Hajratwala's book LEAVING INDIA. It is what I imagine India itself to be like: incomparable, sprawling, rich, surprising, very old and wise and forever capable of recreating itself, no matter where pieces of it land." —Alice Walker The book's publicist: Alia_Habib@hmhpub.com

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Tues, March 24, 6:30-8:30 pm; Lecture HallBOOK TALK: Prof. HELEN BENEDICT. Her new nonfiction book, THE LONELY SOLDIER: THE PRIVATE WAR OF WOMEN SERVING IN IRAQ, will be out from Beacon Press in April 2009. Benedict's play based on the book, THE LONELY SOLDIER MONOLOGUES, is to be performed in New York City at The Theater for the New City from March 5-22, and at La MaMa on March 17. Ticket information: http://www.helenbenedict.com

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Thursday, March 26, 2-3 pm; Stabile Student CenterTALK: DANIEL ZWERDLING is one of NPR's top investigative and documentary reporters. He'll be coming to share investigative journalism techniques in radio and take student questions.

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Thurs, March 26, 7:30-9 pm; Lecture HallDELACORTE LECTURE: Stephen Murphy, President and CEO, Rodale Press

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Fri, March 27, 12:15-1:30 pm; Stabile Student CenterTALK: LISA SPINELLI, J'2004, web editor, Boston Phoenix. She is responsible for three websites: thePhoenix.com (Boston's site), PortlandPhoenix.com, and ProvidencePhoenix.com. She will discuss life at an alternative weekly, managing a print-web newsroom and offer lots of practical advice from a young alum's point of view.

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Monday, March 30, 12:30-2 pm; Stabile Student CenterTALK: CHARLES SENNOTT, Executive Editor, GlobalPost. The online international news site GlobalPost.com debuted January 12. Its daily news and analysis come from 65 correspondents stationed around the world. The New York Times this week described the site as a “mix of news and features that only a handful of other news organizations can rival.” Executive Editor Charles Sennott (Columbia j-school ’86) founded GlobalPost with Columbia j-school alum Philip Balboni, ’71. Sennott was a veteran foreign correspondent for The Boston Globe. He served as bureau chief in the paper’s Middle East and Europe bureaus.

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Monday, March 30, 5-7 pm, Stabile Student CenterLERER LESSONS #2: Ken Lerer, chairman of The Huffington Post and this year's Hearst New Media Professional-in-Residence at the J-school, presents the second of his three spring talks about media entrepreneurship. This week's topic: "Everything Journalists Should Know About Web Advertising."

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Thurs, April 2, 7:30-9 pm; Lecture HallDELACORTE LECTURE: STEVE ADLER, editor-in-chief, Business Week

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Monday, April 6, 4-5 pm; Room 601BTALK: International Reporting on Climate Change. JAMES FAHN, global director of the Earth Journalism Network and author of “A Land on Fire,” will discuss the challenges of covering climate change in developing countries, and how to help overcome them. Fahn has covered environmental issues in Southeast Asia since 1990. EJN is a
project of Internews, an international media development organization.

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Friday, April 10, 1-2 pm, Stabile Student CenterTWITTER FOR SKEPTICS: Tired of hearing all about Twitter and all the Twits who are Twittering all the time? Convinced it's jumped the shark? Wondering why anyone would want to know what their friends are doing at EVERY SINGLE MOMENT? Then this session is for you. It's an introduction to Twitter and a discussion about how journalists can specifically use it to improve their reporting, get story ideas and connect with their readers/viewers. You'll leave with lots of ideas and a list of useful/interesting/fun Twitter feeds. Speaker: Dean Sree Sreenivasan (@sreenet on Twitter)

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Monday, April 13, 5-7 pm, Lecture HallLERER LESSONS #3: Ken Lerer, chairman of The Huffington Post and this year's Hearst New Media Professional-in-Residence at the J-school, presents the third of his three spring talks about media entrepreneurship. This week's topic: "Eyeballs: What You Should Know About Building Traffic and Audience in the Digital World."

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Tuesday, April 14, 5-6:30 pm; Lecture HallTALK: Numeracy for Journalists with CARL BIALIK, WSJ's "Numbers Guy" columnist. See his collection: http://www.carlbialik.com/

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Thurs, April 16, 7:30-9 pm; Lecture HallDELACORTE LECTURE: KATE WHITE, editor in chief, Cosmopolitan

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Thurs, April 23, 7-9 pm; Lecture HallHEARST NEW MEDIA LECTURE: "How We Got Here and How We Get Out of Here" by KEN LERER, chairman and co-founder, The Huffington Post

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Wed, May 6, 11 am-noon; Stabile Student CenterTALK: "All you ever wanted to know about torture, but were afraid to ask" by TIM WEINER, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. His book "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" (Doubleday, 2007) won the National Book Award for non-fiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for history. It appeared on many "best books of 2007" lists in the US and the UK, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Economist, and Time magazine. Bestseller in the United States and in Germany. Translated into 24 languages. Weiner is now working on a history of the FBI and national security.

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Friday, May 8, 1-2 pm, Stabile Student CenterWORKSHOP: Google Docs (and Apps) for Journalists: an in-person workshop about Google Docs - and how you can make better use of it in your work. Speaker: JONATHAN ROCHELLE, Senior Product Manager of Google Docs and Google Apps

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 MORE TO COME; MEANWHILE, A FILM SERIES FOR YOU...

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The following informal film series is run by Prof. Mirta Ojito. No RSVP required.

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 THE BEYOND BORDERS SEMINAR
INVITES YOU TO A
MIGRATION FILM SERIES
Free and open to the public. Bring Your Own Lunch.
A brief discussion, moderated by Prof. Mirta Ojito, will
follow each film.
LECTURE ROOM, JOURNALISM SCHOOL
1:30-3:30 pm

Tuesday, Feb. 10 Golden Door
Sicilian peasant Salvatore yearns for a better life in America, but is
unprepared for his arrival at Ellis Island, where families are inspected,
interrogated and split apart.


Tuesday, Feb. 24 Well-Founded Fear
A documentary that takes the viewer behind the doors of a political asylum
office in the U.S, where refugees must prove a well-founded fear of
persecution or return home.


Tuesday, March 10 Edge of Heaven
A study about family fragility and strength, heightened by the struggles of
Turkish immigrants in Germany.


Tuesday, March 31 Chasing Freedom
A Court TV original film about the trials and tribulations of an Afghan
woman seeking asylum in the U.S. and her stay in a detention center.


Tuesday, April 14 Under the Same Moon
Nine-year-old, Carlitos crosses the border from Mexico to search for his
mother in LA.


Tuesday, April 28 The Visitor
An exploration of the relationship between a disaffected college professor
in New York and his unlikely new friends: undocumented Muslim immigrants who
move into his apartment during his extended absence from the city.

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