Upcoming Events

September 9, 2008
Professor Charles Seife, "Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking"

Professor Charles Seife presents "Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking."

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Sep 9, 2008
Pamela Noel, "Making Your Internship Pay."

Learn strategies for getting the most out of any internship.

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September 10, 2008
David Rieff, "On Natural Disaster..."

The Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK) at New York University is pleased to announce an event with author and journalist David Rieff on Wednesday September 10, 2008 from 6:30 to 8:30PM.

Rieff's talk, titled "On Natural Disaster, Civil Wars and Humanitarian Actors" will be held in Jurow Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East at Waverly Place. He will be joined in dialogue with University Professor and IPK Director, Craig Calhoun. Reception to follow with book sale and signing. This event is free and open to the public;

David Rieff is an author and journalist. He is a contributing writer to The New York Times Sunday Magazine and the author of eight books, including Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West, A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis, and At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Interventions.

Craig Calhoun is University Professor of the Social Sciences at NYU, and Director of its Institute for Public Knowledge. He is also President of the Social Science Research Council. Calhoun is author most recently of Nations Matter: Citizenship, Solidarity and the Cosmopolitan Dream.

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September 17, 2008
Professor Dan Fagin, "The Secret History of the Cancer Cluster Next Door: Adventures in Accountability Journalism at the Edge of Science."

Professor Dan Fagin presents "The Secret History of the Cancer Cluster Next Door: Adventures in Accountability Journalism at the Edge of Science."

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Sep 17, 2008
Reporting in the Radical First Person: a panel discussion with Ken Silverstein, Jeff Sharlet, Ted Conover, and Bill Wasik, moderated by Brooke Kroeger.

Wasik edited the new collection: Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine.

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Sep 18, 2008
"Meet the Editors and Producers Night": reception.

(GRADUATE STUDENTS ONLY) Come chat with the people who could provide your first freelance assignment (or an interesting internship). Refreshments served

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Sep 23, 2008
Time Inc.'s Summer Editorial Internship Program

Details and helpful hints about applying from Jamila McCoy. FALL DEADLINE.

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Sep 25, 2008
The Associated Press Summer Internship Program

Details and helpful hints about applying from Will Chang. FALL DEADLINE AND TESTING.

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Oct 1, 2008
Screening, Prof. Marcia Rock's "The Salt Miners of Ghana."

Documentary screening, details to follow shortly.

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Oct 1 and Oct 7, 2008
SHERP graduate, Joanna Rudnick, discusses her documentary film "In the Family."

Airing on PBS October 1, "In the Family" is Joanna's personal story of learning, at age 27, that she carries "the breast cancer gene." The 90-minute film follows Rudnick and other women as they struggle with the question, "How much do you sacrifice to survive?" Joanna will then join us to show scenes and discuss the film on October 7.

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Ongoing Events

There are no currently ongoing events.

Past Events

July 28 – August 6, 2008
Urban Journalism Workshop

Now in its 24th year! The Urban Journalism Workshop at New York University is designed to encourage minority students to consider a career in journalism. Twenty minority high school juniors and seniors from the New York City metropolitan area are selected to spend 10 days attending an intensive, rigorous multimedia course at the NYU Department of Journalism's new state of the art facilities in Cooper Square.

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May 19 – May 24, 2008
Dow Jones Business Reporting Workshop

The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund offers grants to workshops designed to encourage high school and college students to consider careers in journalism. Business reporting interns will attend the residency program at New York University, directed by Carlos Tejada, a news editor for The Wall Street Journal.

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June 4, 2008
The Future of Media: AN I WANT MEDIA FORUM
The Future of Media will present a panel of leading media journalists in a discussion on how the Internet and other digital media are transforming the traditional media landscape. Panelists will exchange ideas and opinions on how newspapers, magazines and television are being shaken up by the likes of blogs, social-networking sites and online video.

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May 13, 2008
Department of Journalism Graduation Celebration

Congratulations Graduates! We will be hosting a party in your honor on Tuesday, May 13th from 4 – 7:30 pm. Bring your family and friends to show off the department and enjoy refreshments. Come early and see Professor Yvonne Latty broadcasting Honors pieces from 2:30 – 4:30 pm in the TV studio.

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Spring 2008
Inside-Out | A Speaker Series

You’re invited to the sixth Inside-Out speaker series, in which world-class science journalists dissect and defend their best work. The series is organized by the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP) at NYU.

April 8, 2008
Crime in the Public Eye: Due Process, Privacy and the Public's Right to Know

Panel discussion on the conflicts between freedom of the press and the right to a fair trial. April 8, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. including lunch.

Click here for detailed information on this event.

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April 9, 2008
Brown Bag Event: Kelly McMasters Speaks

Kelly McMasters grew up in Shirley, Long Island where many residents attribute a cluster of breast, thryoid and lung cancers to a federal nuclear laboratory that sparked a lawsuit in 1996. "Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town," is McMasters’ poignant tribute to her hometown’s valiant battle.

McMaster’s essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, Newsday, Elle Décor, and Time Out New York. She has a BA from Vassar College and an MFA in literary nonfiction from Columbia University and teaches writing at mediabistro.com and in the undergraduate writing program and Journalism Graduate School at Columbia University. McMasters is also the co-director of the KGB Nonfiction Reading Series in the East Village.

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April 2, 2008
Jason Samuels, Senior Producer, ABC News , Race and Air Time Library, 6 p.m.

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March 31, 2008
Prof. Pete Hamill to Speak on A.J. Liebling's World War II Writings

Distinguished writer in residence Pete Hamill will discuss the work of one of America's most influential 20th century journalists, March 31 from 6-8 p.m. Refreshments and book signing.

With readings by journalism students Sarah Jacobsson, Gaetana Pipia and Rollo Romig.

Sponsored by the Overseas Press Club, Library of America, and the NYU Department of Journalism.

One of the most gifted and influential American journalists of the 20th century, A.J. Liebling spent five years reporting the stories of World War II for The New Yorker.

Hamill and the Library of America have gathered Liebling’s brilliant war writing in a single volume, Liebling: World War II Writings. "The Road Back to Paris" narrates his shock at the fall of France and the isolationist indifference in the United States. "Mollie and Other War Pieces" includes Liebling’s eyewitness account of Omaha Beach on D-Day. In "Normandy Revisited" Liebling writes about his return to France in 1955 and recalls the joyous liberation of his beloved Paris while exploring with bittersweet perception how wartime experience is transformed into memory. Some of Liebling's uncollected New Yorker articles explore diverse topics such as battle fatigue, Ernie Pyle, Omar Bradley, surveys of the French underground press and military history.

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March 26, 2008
The Britney Show: a News Forum

Students and faculty are invited to attend "The Britney Show," a news forum co-sponsored by NYU and The Atlantic on March 26 that will explore the rise of the paparazzi news culture.

Panelists will include Bonnie Fuller, editorial director of American Media and former editor of Us Weekly; Virginia Heffernan, columnist and critic, New York Times Magazine; Richard Johnson, editor, New York Post’s Page Six; Regis and Brandy Navarre, proprietors, paparazzi agency X17 and X17online.com; and David Samuels, contributing writer, The Atlantic. The forum will be held in the 7th floor TV studio at 1 PM. Lunch will be served.

All students and faculty are welcome to attend.

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March 26, 2008
The Art of the Live Interview With NPR Radio Host Brian Lehrer

Meet the master of the live NYC interview. Learn how he selects guests, prepares and organizes his interviews, works with producers and then handles his guests LIVE.

Brian Lehrer delves into the issues and links them to real life. He puts you directly in touch with news makers and gives them a chance to exchange opinions and ideas with call-in listeners. A seasoned moderator, Lehrer directs a "sane alternative" in talk radio. Whether the topic is New York City's education or housing policy, the changing face of welfare, or the expanding Chinese economy, Brian Lehrer puts a human face on the issues shaping your life.

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March 12, 2008
The Independent Journalism of I. F. Stone: on the 100th anniversary of his birth

A panel discussion and celebration at New York University.

March 12, 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Reception (wine & hors d’oeuvre) 7:30 to 8 p.m.

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