News Archive: March 2012
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Report on horse deaths by adjunct Bogdanich and Miles '10 takes NYT front page
3/27/2012
Four years ago, after a horse running in the Kentucky Derby broke two ankles on national television and was euthanized, New York Times investigative reporter Walt Bogdanich told his editors that it was time probe the horse racing industry. But that didn’t happen. So two years later, Bogdanich, who teaches the Investigative Reporting Workshop at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, told his class to take on the story. And they did.
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Justin Gillis wins 2011 Oakes Award
3/22/2012
The Graduate School of Journalism has announced that New York Times reporter Justin Gillis has won the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism for his 10-part multimedia series, “Temperature Rising.”, focusing on global warming and its consequences.
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Olga Pierce '08 wins Scripps Howard Award
3/16/2012
Olga Pierce '08, a graduate of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, was among the winners of this year’s Scripps Howard Awards. Pierce and her Pro Publica colleague Paul Kiel received $10,000 and the William Brewster Styles Award for business and economic reporting for their series that exposed how “systemic failures at the country’s banks and mortgage servicers have exacerbated the most severe foreclosure crisis since the Great Depression, and government efforts to limit the damage have fallen short.”
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Winners of 2012 Lukas Prize Project Awards announced
3/15/2012
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism have named the 2012 winners of the Lukas Prize Project Awards. A Vanderbilt University professor has won the 2012 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for his sensitive account of the fine line people of mixed race have tread in the United States since the nation’s beginning. The Mark Lynton History Prize will go to a University of Virginia professor for her unusual and groundbreaking work on the history of common sense. The J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award was won by a former A.P. reporter and editor who is completing a book on the world’s inability to help Haiti.
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Students in "Covering Religion" course report from Italy
3/14/2012
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Professor Ari Goldman has taught “Covering Religion” each spring for the past 18 years, preparing his students to write about religion for a diverse readership. This year’s course focuses on the religions of Italy, including Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
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Prof. Betsy West's "MAKERS: Women who Make America" launches
3/7/2012
Columbia Journalism School Professor Betsy West is an executive producer of the innovative, multi-platform project MAKERS: Women who Make America. Backed by a first-ever partnership between AOL and PBS, MAKERS launched on February 28 at makers.com with edited stories and excerpts from 30 of 100 interviews conducted with women of achievement.
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Journalism School announces renaming of building for founder, Joseph Pulitzer
3/7/2012
The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism announced today that it will rename the Journalism building “Pulitzer Hall,” after its founder, Joseph Pulitzer. The unveiling of the new facade will take place on April 20, 2012 – the start of the school’s centennial year.
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Reporting by Christopher Twarowski '07 leads to police indictment
3/5/2012
Christopher Twarowski '07, a graduate of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, was the editor and co-reporter of a series of stories that led to the recent indictment of three police officers in Nassau County.
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J-School students awarded OPC scholarships
3/2/2012
Three Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism students were recently awarded Overseas Press Club Foundation scholarships at the Foundation’s 2012 Annual Scholarship Luncheon. They were among 14 aspiring foreign correspondents selected by a panel of leading journalists from a pool of 175 applicants from 72 colleges and universities.