News Archive: February 2012
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Habiba Nosheen '09 wins Gracie Award
2/29/2012
Habiba Nosheen ’09 has won the 2012 Gracie Award for Outstanding Reporter/Correspondent for her film “To Adopt A Child,” which investigated adoption in Nepal.
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Laura Keller '12 wins IRE scholarship
2/27/2012
Laura J. Keller '12, an M.S. candidate studying broadcast journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, has been named by Investigative Reporters & Editors as the Jennifer Leonard scholarship recipient.
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Gal Beckerman '03 wins Sami Rohr literature prize
2/23/2012
Gal Beckerman ’03 has won the 2012 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for his book "When They Come for Us We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry." The prize includes an award of $100,000— one of the largest literary prizes in the world.
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Shreeya Sinha '10, duPont-Columbia Award winner
2/21/2012
Shreeya Sinha '10 recently won a 2012 duPont-Columbia Award silver baton for her work on "Undesired," a multimedia report about violence against women in India produced by MediaStorm and Walter Astrada for the Alexia Foundation.
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Prof. Richard Blood has died at 83
2/20/2012
Prof. Richard Blood, who taught at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and New York University for more than two decades, died Friday, Feb. 17. He was 83.
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Three hits by Stabile alumni at Reuters in four days
2/15/2012
Three recent graduates of the Stabile program have hit the ground running at Reuters. In the last four days, they’ve published special reports on Iranian shipping, the closure of U.S. post offices and the growing business of selling citizenship.
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J-School Student Clip Report: January
2/13/2012
Columbia Journalism School students are turning their classwork into clips and even doing additional freelance work on the side. Here is a collection of their published work from late December and January.
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Akam '09 profiles former African dictator Valentine Strasser
2/13/2012
Simon Akam ’09, Reuters’ correspondent in Sierra Leone, has spent much of the past year working on a feature profile of Sierra Leonean ex-dictator Valentine Strasser. His piece was published in early February in the British current affairs magazine The New Statesman.
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Three students win Foreign Press Scholarship Awards
2/9/2012
Three Journalism School students have been selected as winners of this year’s New York Foreign Press Association Scholarship Awards. They are Charu Kasturi, Gabriel Stargardter, and Nastaran Tavakoli-Far.
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Investigation by Chavkin '10 spurs Costa Rican action
2/7/2012
The investigation of an epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD) killing thousands of sugarcane workers in Central America by Sasha Chavkin '10 has prompted the Costa Rican government to take action by mandating a study on the epidemic. Medical research has so far shown links between declining kidney function and repeated heat stress and dehydration—the result of strenuous labor in hot climates.
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Columbia News features The New York World
2/6/2012
Last fall, a private bus company operating under a city contract permitted its passengers, primarily Orthodox Jews, to enforce a religious tradition—in order to prevent physical contact between the sexes, women were required to sit in the back of the bus. The New York Times, New York Post and CBS 2 ran the story, which was later picked up by the BBC and Belgian and Israeli news outlets. But it was an enterprising reporter from The New York World—a new Graduate School of Journalism endeavor—who first broke this story of segregation.