Hey NYC freelance media types – a few great FREE events coming up in the next few weeks. Details below. -Mia
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After James Foley: Covering Conflict When Journalists Are Targets
Sept. 9 (with David Rohde)
Event Name:
After James Foley: Covering Conflict When Journalists Are Targets
Event Date and Time:
9 September 2014 – 7:00pm
Event Location:
Columbia School of Journalism Lecture Hall
Event City:
New York
Event Fee:
FREE
The OPC is co-sponsoring a panel discussion at the Columbia School of Journalism surrounding the current risks and rewards of conflict reporting in the aftermath of reporter James Foley's tragic murder.
Dean Steve Coll will lead the discussion.
Panelists:
- Reuters columnist and former New York Times reporter David Rohde, who was held captive for seven months by the Taliban before he escaped.
- OPC award winner, board member and New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi, previously the West Africa bureau chief for The Associated Press.
- Phil Balboni, GlobalPost CEO and co-founder, who spent two years fighting for Foley's release.
- Nicole Tung, a freelance conflict photographer and friend of Foley's who first discovered him missing.
This event is sponsored by the Overseas Press Club, the Columbia Journalism School and the DART Center for Journalism and Trauma.
HERE ARE SOME OTHER UPCOMING OPC EVENTS:
Sept. 25 (with Tyler Hicks)
https://www.opcofamerica.org/events/outside-opc-photo-award-winners-and-editors-share-best-practices-international-reporting
Oct. 1 Book night with Sheila Weller, author of the News Sorority, a triple biographty of Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric and Christiane Amanpour. (at OPC)
Oct. 21 How to Freelance Safely with representatives of RISC, DART, London’s Frontline Club and Judith Matloff of Columbia.
Oct. 24 (with Nick Kristof)