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Alumni News and Notes
May 27, 2004
Chris Hondros
Spring 2001 Pew/IRP Fellow
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Chris Hondros
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Christopher Hondros (Spring 2001 Pew/IRP Fellow) recently received the Overseas Press Club's John Faber Award for his work photographing Liberia's civil war.
The Overseas Press Club describes Chris' efforts in Liberia: "As one of the few who stayed behind to document Monrovia's descent into total chaos ... Hondros created graphic images that put you right at the heart of the struggle. The lawlessness and brutality are pervasive and relentless and are captured with great skill under the most harrowing conditions."
In addition, Chris was a nominated finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in the “Breaking News Photography” category.
May 25, 2004
Cheryl Hatch
Fall 1999 Pew/IRP Fellow
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Cheryl Hatch |
Cheryl Hatch is showing a selection of her photographs at an exhibition entitled "War Is" at the Newport Visual Arts Center in Newport, OR June 4 - July 31. The opening reception is scheduled for Sunday, June 6 from 2 - 4:00 p.m.
For more information, please contact:
Newport Visual Arts Center
777 NW Beach Drive
Newport, OR 97635
Phone: (541) 265-6540
May 18, 2004
Colin Woodard
Fall 1999 Pew/IRP Fellow
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Colin Woodard |
Colin Woodard's second book, The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier, will be released by Viking on May 22. The book examines the history and traditions of Maine's rural fishing communities and how their unique way of life is threatened by the state's growing suburbanization.
Publisher's Weekly calls it a "lucid cultural history of coastal Maine" adding that Colin "covers a lot of ground in his informative book, and he never fails to make the story engaging." Colin continues to work as a foreign correspondent from his home in Portland, Maine.
Brief notes
Jeremy Kahn (Fall 2003 IRP/Pew Fellow) has been named managing editor for The New Republic.
Jamila Paksima (Fall 2001 IRP/Pew Fellow) received the 2003 CINE award for her documentary film, “Casualties of Freedom,” which aired on "NOW with Bill Moyers."
April 29, 2004
Raney Aronson
Spring 2000 Pew/IRP Fellow
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Raney Aronson |
Raney Aronson's new FRONTLINE documentary, "The Jesus Factor" airs on PBS Thursday, April 29. The program addresses how President George W. Bush's evangelical faith influences his presidency.
Says The New York Times: "'The Jesus Factor' is a little like those illustrated anatomy books where transparent plastic pages can be flipped to reveal the muscle,bone and organs beneath the skin. Stripping off the layers of patrician pedigree, Yale and his Texas business pursuits, the documentary lays bare Mr. Bush's spirtual conversion and its consequences ... [It] is an enlightening look at the president and the electoral clout of evangelical Christians."
April 9, 2004
Kimberlee Acquaro
Fall 2001 Pew/IRP Fellow
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Kimberlee Acquaro |
Kimberlee Acquaro returned to Rwanda for a third time (post-fellowship) to shoot a film "God Sleeps in Rwanda". It features several women she focused on during the fellowship and on her New York Times Magazine story about the Genocide's rape victims.
She writes: “I used a bit of footage that I shot on my fellowship (with a fellowship camera!) and much of the interviewing I did on my fellowship. I was interviewed by Voice of America about my work in Rwanda. I was asked to write a series of monologues to be performed . . . in DC to commemorate the Rwandan Genocide. The play will be performed as dramatic readings of three monologues that I wrote with a colleague who is a screenwriter based on stories of Rwandan women I have interviewed and will raise money for Rwandan women survivors. It will be last week of May, 1st week of June. . . The Fellowship obviously informed my work life as I continue to be asked to exhibit, speak, and now show my film internationally because of the work I started with you."
Pam Constable
Journalist in Residence 2003
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Pam Constable |
Pam Constable's book, “Fragments of Grace: My Search for Meaning in the Strife of South Asia,” will be published in May 2004 by Brassey's, Inc. The book chronicles Pam's four and a half years as the South Asia bureau chief for The Washington Post, covering Taliban-era Afghanistan, the conflicts in Kashmir and Sri Lanka, the military coup in Pakistan, and many other important stories from the region.
Pam is currently reporting on the ongoing crisis in Iraq for The Washington Post . Her daily coverage of the fighting in Fallujah is regularly featured on the front page of The Post.
Stacy Sullivan
Fall 1998 Pew/IRP Fellow
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Stacy Sullivan |
Stacy Sullivan has completed her book “Be Not Afraid, for You Have Sons in America,” published by St. Martin's Press. The book, subtitled, “How a Brooklyn Roofer Helped Lure the U.S. Into the Kosovo War,” follows the story of Albanian-American Florin Krasniqui from Brooklyn to Kosovo to Albania in his attempt to raise money and organize the Kosovo Liberation Army.
Author Samantha Power says of Stacy's book: “Stacy Sullivan has managed to hunt down the inside story of how a Brooklyn roofer helped launch a guerilla army in the Balkans. Sullivan has given us a work of contemporary history that reads more like a crime thriller.”
Brief notes
Anne Barnard (Spring 2000 Pew/IRP Fellow) has been named to fill the new Baghdad bureau of the Boston Globe . She will cover the country as part of a two-person Globe team with staffer Thanassis Cambanis.
Steve Inskeep (Spring 1999 Pew/IRP Fellow) has been named interim co-host of National Public Radio's “Morning Edition.”
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