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Oct03
Paris Event: France’s Fraught Racial Politics
Join us for an OPC evening at the American Library in Paris, with four top journalists, to discuss France’s fraught racial politics….
Paris Event: France’s Fraught Racial Politics
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Date&Time: 03 October 2023 - 7:30 p.m. in Paris, 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Online and at the American Library in Paris, 10 Rue du Général Camou, 75007 Paris
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In the latest evening co-hosted by the OPC and the American Library in Paris, four seasoned journalists debate the country’s explosive issue of race. France’s strict color-blind policies are being severely tested: A police killing in June ignited nationwide race protests, and President Macron’s education minister this month banned girls from wearing the Muslim abaya to school. Even discussing race provokes heated arguments in France, with many French seeing America as a racist country, unlike their own, and Americans questioning whether France is ignoring the problem.
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Roger Cohen, Paris Bureau Chief for the New York Times, wrote from the funeral for the police-killing victim Nahel M: “There was consensus in the crowd: If Nahel M., a French citizen of Algerian and Moroccan descent, had been white rather than an Arab, he would not have been killed.” Read the full article.
Rokhaya Diallo, host of the podcast “Kiffe Ta Race” and Washington Post opinion columnist, wrote: “Institutional violence against minorities has been a hallmark of French life ever since the colonial era.” Read her column: “Police brutality isn’t just an American problem. It’s France’s, too”
Angelique Chrisafis, Paris correspondent for The Guardian, spoke on the paper’s podcast about 2023’s “summer of grief and fury” in France. Listen here.
Guillaume Debré, Deputy head of news, TF1 Television, overseeing coverage in the evening newscast at France’s biggest private network, and author of several books on U.S. politics and France. LinkedIn profile.
Moderator: Vivienne Walt, Paris correspondent for TIME & Fortune Magazines, and member of the OPC Board of Governors
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Book Nights
Oct19
Book Night: ‘No Ordinary Assignment’ – With Jane Ferguson
Join the OPC for book night with Jane Ferguson to discuss “No Ordinary Assignment,” which starts with her childhood in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and moves on to chronicle her experiences reporting in numerous conflict zones…
Book Night: ‘No Ordinary Assignment’ – With Jane Ferguson
Name: Book Night: 'No Ordinary Assignment' – With Jane Ferguson
Date&Time: 19 October 2023 - 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Online via Zoo
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Jane Ferguson has covered some of the biggest war stories of recent years. She won the OPC’s Peter Jennings Award in 2021 for her coverage on PBS NewsHour of the fall of Afghanistan. Her reporting on Yemen earned an Emmy, a George Polk Award and an Alred I. du Pont Columbia Award.
No Ordinary Assignment starts with her childhood in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and moves on to chronicle her experiences reporting in numerous conflict zones. “Without family wealth or connections, she began as a scrappy one-woman reporting team, a borrowed camera often her only equipment,” says the Amazon review. “Networks told her she had the wrong accent, the wrong appearance, not enough ‘bang-bang shoot-‘em-up.’ Still, Ferguson threw herself into harm’s way time and again, determined to give voice to civilian experiences of war.”
Ferguson told the OPC her memoir is “a deep look at what shapes someone in their early lives to pursue this work, and then what happens to that person when they are out in the world at some of its roughest moments, trying to do the job well while being the complicated, flawed, passionate human beings that we are. So, I could say it’s a book about what it takes to become a war reporter and then what it does to that person as they do the work.”
Kirkus Reviews gave the book its Kirkus Star, which marks books of exceptional merit, calling the book “A captivating, honest, and powerful attempt to do justice to the hardest stories to tell.”
Elizabeth Becker, author of You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War, will moderate the discussion. Becker won the Sperber Book Prize and Harvard’s Goldsmith Book Prize for her book, which was featured in an OPC program in 2021.
No Ordinary Assignment is for sale on Amazon here.
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Film Screenings
Oct05
‘How I Did It’: Investigating U.S.-Backed Night Raids in Afghanistan
Join us for a screening of The Night Doctrine and conversation with Lynzy Billing and Almudena Toral…
‘How I Did It’: Investigating U.S.-Backed Night Raids in Afghanistan
Name: 'How I Did It': Investigating U.S.-Backed Night Raids in Afghanistan
Date&Time: 05 October 2023 - 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Columbia Journalism School, The World Room
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Join us for a screening of The Night Doctrine and conversation with freelance journalist Lynzy Billing and filmmaker Almudena Toral.
Billing returned to rural Afghanistan to investigate the murders of her mother and sister in a night raid nearly 30 years earlier, but her journey was transformed when she discovered CIA-backed night raids killing hundreds of civilians, with no one being held to account.
Join Billing and Toral for a screening of their film, The Night Doctrine and a conversation about Billing’s ProPublica investigation, The Night Raids, which won the Overseas Press Club’s Ed Cunningham Award.
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This event is co-sponsored by the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism at Columbia University and the Overseas Press Club of America.
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Journalism Contests
The McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism
September 30, 2022
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Do you -- or a reporter you know -- have a great idea for high-impact investigative or enterprise story that "Follows the Money," but few resources to take it on?
If so, the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism, an initiative of the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, would like to hear from you. The Fellowships provide experienced journalists with the funds and editorial support needed to produce high-impact stories on critical issues related to the US economy, business or finance.
The upcoming deadline to apply is September 30, 2022 – please note that this is a change from our earlier announced fall deadline.
- Each Fellow receives a grant of up to $15,000
- Fellowships are open to both freelance and staff journalists with at least five years professional journalism experience
- Applications accepted from both reporters and editors
- Applications in any type of media — print, audio, video and digital — will be considered
Previous McGraw Fellows have explored a wide variety of topics — and you don’t need to be a business reporter to apply. Many have been generalists, or follow beats such as health care or the environment. Others have focused on issues such as economic justice or corporate accountability. Here are some examples of their work:
- Child labor in the palm oil industry linked to Girl Scout cookies Associated Press
- Pandemic, Prosecutions Aside, Bribery Persists in Chinese Hospitals 100Reporters
- Hurricane fallout creates financial ruin for Puerto Rico seniors with reverse mortgages USA Today and Centro de Periodismo Investigativo
- Several years into BP settlement spending, the bulk of Mississippi’s restoration work remains undone Mississippi Today
- Company insiders are selling stock during buybacks & making additional profits when prices jump. And it’s legal. Washington Post
- Two Nations, One Aquifer: A Series About Water at the Border Albuquerque Journal
- How the Norcross Political Machine Muscled In On Prime Real Estate in New Jersey’s Poorest City WNYC & ProPublica
- When baby is due, genetic counselors seen downplaying false alarms Boston Globe and New England Center for Investigative Reporting
- New Workers of the World: Capturing the voices of workers facing unprecedented change Bloomberg Businessweek
If you’d like to join them, you’ll find more information, an FAQ, and the application at www.mcgrawcenter.org. If you have further questions, you can contact us at mcgrawcenter@journalism.cuny.edu. Applications are accepted twice a year. Fall 2021 Fellowships are due September 30, 2021. Spring 2022 applications will be due March 31, 2022.
The McGraw Center for Business Journalism was established at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in 2014 by the family of the late Harold W. McGraw, Jr., former chairman and CEO of McGraw-Hill and long-time publisher of BusinessWeek magazine. The Center is dedicated to enhancing the depth and quality of business and economic news coverage through training, student scholarships and support for veteran journalists.
The Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in midtown Manhattan is the only publicly supported graduate journalism school in the Northeast. Led by Dean Sarah Bartlett, the School offers three 16 month Master’s degree programs: an M.A. in Journalism, Spanish Language Journalism, or Social Journalism.
CONTACT:
Jane Sasseen
Executive Director
McGraw Center for Business Journalism
mcgrawcenter@journalism.cuny.edu
917-748-8257