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Alumni News and Notes
March 2006
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Candace Rondeaux |
Candace Rondeaux
Fall 2004 IRP Fellow
Fall 2004 IRP Fellow Candace Rondeaux has recently begun working for The Washington Post where she serves as a criminal justice reporter in Loudon County in northern Virginia.
Prior to join the Post earlier this year, Rondeaux served for four years as a staff writer at The St. Petersburg Times covering the Tampa courthouse.
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Louise Lief |
Louise Lief
Deputy Director, International Reporting Project
Louise Lief, Deputy Director of the International Reporting Project, will discuss the role of the U.S. media in international affairs on panel at Tufts University’s Edward R. Murrow Center for Public Diplomacy in a symposium entitled "What Would Murrow See Now? The U.S. Press and the World.”
Ted Koppel, managing editor of the Discovery Channel, will make opening remarks. Joining Lief on the panel of veteran foreign journalists will be Keith Richburg, foreign editor, The Washington Post; Neal Shapiro, former president, NBC News; and Crocker Snow, director, The Murrow Center at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
The symposium will take place on Monday, April 3 from 2:00-4:00 pm at the Tufts University Cabot Interncultural Center.
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Photo by Kimberlee Acquaro |
Kimberlee Acquaro
Fall 2001 IRP Fellow
Former IRP Fellow Kimberlee Acquaro's documentary film “God Sleeps in Rwanda,” one of four nominees for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (short subject), has recently been acquired by HBO for broadcast in August 2006.
Acquaro traveled to Rwanda in 2001 as an IRP Fellow photojournalist focusing on the aftermath of Rwanda's 1994 genocide. Acquaro returned to Rwanda in 2003 to shoot "God Sleeps in Rwanda" with co-director Stacy Sherman. The directors shot with only two cameras, and aided by genocide survivor and translator Norah Bagarinka, documented the lives of five Rwandan women Acquaro first met on her IRP fellowship trip. The resulting 28-minute film is narrated by actress Rosario Dawson and has helped raised $25,000 in funds for women survivors in Rwanda. The film also received an award at the Ojai Film Festival in October 2005.
Women Make Movies is distributing the film, and in addition to the HBO broadcast scheduled for summer 2006,
"God Sleeps in Rwanda" will be screened The Museum of Modern Art in
New York on March 10th at 6 p.m.
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Phuong Ly |
Phuong Ly
Spring 2006 IRP Fellow
Spring 2006 IRP Fellow Phuong Ly, currently in Nigeria on her IRP fellowship trip, recently received two national awards for her diversity reporting at The Washington Post.
Ly won the 2006 Freedom Forum/American Society of Newspaper Editors' award for Outstanding Writing on Diversity, for her work covering the experiences of immigrants in the Washington, DC area. Her stories will be featured in the Poynter Institute's Best Newspaper Writing 2006.
Ly also received an honor from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, annual sponsor of the "Let's Do It Better!" Competition on Journalism, Race and Ethnicity. The Washington Post and three of its reporters received an Excellence Award from competition judges for "providing readers with a thoughtful and unpredictable view through the prism of race and ethnicity.”
December 2005
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Yoruba Richen |
Yoruba Richen
Fall 2004 IRP Fellow
A year after her Fall 2004 IRP Fellowship trip to South Africa to begin shooting her documentary about race and land redistribution in that country, Yoruba Richen’s unfinished film "Promised Land" has appeared on the PBS public affairs program "Foreign Exchange" with Fareed Zakaria. A portion of the film aired on the show in December, and is accessible at the show’s website: www.foreignexchange.tv
Richen received grants from the National Black Programming Consortium and the Jerome Foundation to return to South Africa and finish shooting "Promised Land." The work-in-progress will be screened in Los Angeles at the Black Association of Documentary Filmmakers West (BAD-West) film festival, held at the American Film Institute on January 28, 2006.
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Suzanne Marmion |
Suzanne Marmion
Fall 2003 IRP Fellow
Fall 2003 Fellow Suzanne Marmion recently left her position at the BBC World Service/Public Radio International program, “The World” to freelance overseas. She won a Kaiser mini grant in HIV/AIDS reporting and traveled to Nigeria where she reported on the tuberculosis epidemic that is wiping out millions of people with HIV years sooner than necessary, as well as the problem of HIV spreading intergenerationally on university campuses because of student/professor sex. Her stories are available online at www.theworld.org. Marmion is now based in Lilongwe, Malawi.
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Cheryl Anne Hatch |
Cheryl Anne Hatch
Fall 1999 IRP Fellow
During her IRP Fellowship in Fall 1999, Cheryl Anne Hatch produced a photo essay entitled "A Luta Continua: Eritrean Women Defending National Borders and Challenging Gender Boundaries." The essay has been selected for exhibition at the Leica Gallery in Solms, Germany in April 2006. Hatch, a long-time Leica photographer, will also give a lecture at the gallery and her work will be published in their 2006 calendar.
November 2005
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Raney Aronson |
Raney Aronson
Spring 2000 IRP Fellow
Spring 2000 IRP Fellow Raney Aronson wrote, directed and produced a show for PBS Frontline entitled “The Last Abortion Clinic,” which aired on November 8. The New York Times praised the show, as did The Boston Globe:
"The Last Abortion Clinic" is written, directed, and produced by Raney Aronson, who gave us the excellent ''The Jesus Factor" last year, about the politics of religion for George Bush. There's no fat in this show. It's well-reported and, rare for ''Frontline," tightly pegged. Aronson wisely focuses on lawyers from both sides who chart legal strategy in lieu of the tiresome extremists who compete for decibel dominance. Balance is always elusive, but the program is fair. It reminds us that such work would appear nowhere else on the small screen but public television.
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Ian Wilhelm |
Ian Wilhelm
Spring 2003 IRP Fellow
A staff writer for The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Spring 2003 IRP Fellow Ian Wilhelm is traveling to Sri Lanka this month to report on the anniversary of last year's deadly earthquake and tsunami. He will be covering the NGO response to the tsunami and the aid organizations' impact on the peace process between the Tamils and Sinhalese.
October 2005
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Matthew Algeo |
Matthew Algeo
Fall 2002 IRP Fellow
Fall 2002 IRP Fellow Matthew Algeo is writing a book about the 1943 merger of the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Entitled When Steagles Flew, the book will be published in fall 2006 by Da Capo Press. In the meantime, Algeo will be moving to Africa: His wife Allyson has joined the Foreign Service and her first assignment is Bamako, Mali.
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Sarah Colt |
Sarah Colt
Spring 2004 IRP Fellow
Sarah Colt completed work on a show entitled "Making Schools Work with Hedrick Smith.” It is a two-hour documentary that aired on PBS on October 5th, 2005. Colt produced the first hour of the special, traveling around the country to schools where reform models are being used to transform troubled institutions.
Colt recently accepted a job producing an hour for the American Experience, WGBH in Boston's American history series and plans to move to Cambridge in the spring.
September 2005
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Fernanda Santos |
Fernanda Santos
Spring 2005 IRP Fellow
Spring 2005 Fellow Fernanda Santos joined the Metropolitan news staff of The New York Times as a New York State correspondent.
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