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Alumni News and Notes
September 2007
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Julie Goodman |
Julie Goodman
Fall 2004 IRP Fellow
Fall 2004 IRP Fellow Julie Goodman will be starting a congressional fellowship in November for the American Political Science Association (APSA). APSA is a nonpartisan, nonprofit association that brings together journalists, political scientists, doctors, federal executives and international scholars for nine months to get a first-hand look at Congress behind the scenes. Fellows are attached to a congressional office or committee.
Goodman's fellowship-related work will focus on intelligence or foreign policy issues.
June 2007
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Former IRP Journalist-in-Residence |
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
2004 IRP Journalist-in-Residence
Rajiv Chandrasekaran received the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction for his recent book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone, which he wrote at SAIS as the IRP Journalist-in-Residence. The esteemed award comes with a $60,000 prize.
Chandrasekaran spent 18 months in Iraq as The Washington Post’s Baghdad bureau chief, where he was responsible for covering the American occupation of Iraq and supervising the Post’s correspondents. Chandrasekaran appeared at SAIS in September 2006 to discuss his book, which examines the people and policies behind Iraq's reconstruction effort.
Imperial Life also won the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan Award and was one of the five finalists for the National Book Award.
Chandrasekaran is currently assistant managing editor at The Washington Post. His book is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Cheryl Hatch
Fall 1999 IRP Fellow
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Eritrean soldier. Photo by Cheryl Hatch. |
Fall 1999 IRP Fellow Cheryl Hatch recently exhibited a collection of her fellowship photographs at Pearl Audio Video in Portland, OR.
Hatch traveled to Eritrea for her fellowship project and reported on women soldiers who fought in the country's 30-year war for independence from Ethiopia.
May 2007
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Joshua Benton, left; David Kohn, right |
Joshua Benton and David Kohn
Fall 2003 and Fall 2000 IRP Fellows
Fall 2003 IRP Fellow Joshua Benton was selected as a 2008 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. A staff reporter with the Dallas Morning News, Benton will study school rating systems, like No Child Left Behind, and their impact on classroom instruction and school operations.
Benton follows in the footsteps of Fall 2000 IRP Fellow David Kohn who was selected for the Nieman Fellowship in Global Health Reporting in 2007. A medicine and science reporter for The Baltimore Sun, Kohn has been studying international public health with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
April 2007
Matthew O'Neill
Spring 2004 IRP Fellow
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Matthew O'Neill filming "Baghdad ER.". |
Spring 2004 IRP Fellow Matthew O'Neill and his HBO documentary "Baghdad ER" received the Overseas Press Club's Carl Spielvogel Award for best international reporting in the broadcast media showing a concern for the human condition.
O'Neill shares the award with co-director Jon Alpert from Downtown Community Television Center.
"This extraordinary piece of cinema verité puts flesh and blood on the grim casualty statistics of the Iraq War. By following wounded American soldiers and Iraqi civilians as they are brought into the 86th Combat Support Hospital for treatment, it depicts, without editorializing, the horror of war and the heroism of the ordinary men and women who confront it on a daily basis." -- OPC Dateline Magazine, 2007 Special Edition
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Shayla Harris |
Shayla Harris
Spring 2003 IRP Fellow
Spring 2003 IRP Fellow Shayla Harris received the George Foster Peabody Award for "The Education of Ms. Groves," an hour-long documentary about a first-year teacher at a tough urban middle school in Atlanta, Georgia. The documentary aired on Dateline NBC in August 2006.
Harris spent a full school year following English teacher Monica Groves and her sixth grade class at Jean Childs Young Middle School. Groves works as part of the "Teach for America" program which recruits college graduates to teach in low-income communities.
The documentary production team consisted of correspondent Hoda Kotb and co-producers Izhar Harpaz and Harris, who shot most of the more than 100 hours of footage for the documentary.
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