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Alumni News and Notes
October 2006
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Former IRP Journalist-in-Residence |
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
2004 IRP Journalist-in-Residence
Rajiv Chandrasekaran's book, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone, which he wrote at SAIS as the IRP Journalist-in-Residence, has been named one of the five finalists for the 2006 National Book Award.
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 to discuss his new book, which examines the people and policies behind Iraq's reconstruction effort.
Chandrasekaran is currently assistant managing editor at The Washington Post. His book is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Spring 2006 Fellows
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Left to Right: Kelly McEvers, Bianca Vazquez |
Former IRP Fellow Barry Simmons recently hosted the Spring 2006 Fellows at a reunion at his home in Nashville, TN.
Simmons, the only male in his Fellowship group as well as the only television reporter, took his fellow journalists on a city-wide tour which included a show at the Grand Ole Opry.
“Our group, having reported from the farthest regions in the world, chose for our six-month reunion a honky-tonk in Nashville, Tennessee — an experience so spectacularly bizarre some didn’t seem to know whether to enjoy the show or pull out their notebooks. We had decided even before our fellowship ended in April that we would not, could not, wait for the standard one-year reunion; instead, we each cleared our schedules for a weekend get-together in October. We danced, took in some shows, and tossed back cheap beer at a country bar. It was good to be back together.”
September 2006
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Fall 2002 IRP Fellow Travis Fox |
Travis Fox
Fall 2002 IRP Fellow
Fall 2002 IRP Fellow Travis Fox recently accepted a national Emmy award for the washingtonpost.com's coverage of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
Fox's reporting from hurricane-ravaged New Orleans earned him the Emmy for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Content for Non-Traditional Delivery Platforms" - the Web site's first such award.
"I'm excited not so much because my work was honored, but rather because the industry is finally recognizing web video along side the more established forms of video journalism. It was a lonely business when I started producing web video projects in 1999. The Emmy Award marks a milestone in the development of web video as a distinctive form of storytelling and I'm thrilled to be a part of it," said Fox.
Fox accepted the honor at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards ceremony in New York, where he currently lives and works as a senior videojournalist for washingtonpost.com.
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Left to Right: Chris Hondros, newlyweds |
Anne Sherwood and Otto Pohl
Spring 2003 and Fall 2002 IRP Fellows
Two former IRP Fellows, Anne Sherwood (Spring 2003) and Otto Pohl (Fall 2002) were recently married.
The couple first met at a May 2003 IRP Alumni reunion, and then met again two years later, at a second IRP reunion. Pohl wrote this about their early encounters:
"I saw her at the bar. I remembered her. I had moved to New York in the meantime, so the geographics had definitely improved. But that wasn’t the only issue. 'So, are you married?' I called out over the din. She shook her head. 'Engaged?' Another negative. 'Is that your boyfriend?' I asked, pointing to the guy she was talking to. Another shake of the head. 'Well, then, let me buy you a drink!'"
The wedding was attended by Spring 2003 IRP Fellows Trenton Daniel and Shayla Harris and by Spring 2001 Fellow Chris Hondros.
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Fall 2004 IRP Fellow Yoruba Richen in South Africa |
Yoruba Richen
Fall 2004 IRP Fellow
Fall 2004 IRP Fellow Yoruba Richen was recently named a Fulbright Scholar in filmmaking. This award will allow her to travel to Brazil to pursue a unique reporting project.
Richen had this say about her upcoming project:
"I will be based in Bahia and working with the federal university there. I will be doing a documentary about the Sisterhood of Good Death - which is the oldest African women's organization in the Americas."
The latest version of Richen's documentary film "Promised Land," begun while Richen was an IRP fellow in South Africa, screened at the Independent Feature Project in NYC in September. It won the Fledgling Fund Award in Outstanding Achievement for Socially Conscious Documentaries.
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