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• Announcement

  Nov 30 2009 6:32 PM

  Society board elects new officers

  By Deirdre Stoelzle Graves

  The Dart Society Board of Directors elected Ochberg Fellows Arnessa Garrett and Jeff Kelly Lowenstein as officers during its annual meeting in November in Atlanta.

• Dart Society Story

  Nov 1 2009

  DeCesare helps aspiring Chinese photojournalists

  Cheung Kong School of Journalism & Communication

  Donna DeCesare, a 2003 fellow who teaches photography and photojournalism at the University of Texas at Austin, traveled to the Sichuan Province this summer to conduct a workshop in the aftermath of the 8.0-magnitude Wenchuan earthquake in May 2008. Her advice: "Be responsible, skillfull, and work fast." Google China sponsored equipment for the AfterQuake workshop, which was presented by the Cheung Kong School of Journalism & Communication.

• Dart Society Story

  Oct 22 2009

  NYT's Lens blog profiles Joe Rodriguez

  The New York Times Lens Blog

  2003 Dart Center Ochberg Fellow Joe Rodriguez talks about his work documenting life in poor communities as an insider focusing on what he describes as "the quiet violence of letting families fall apart, the violence of segregation and isolation."

• Announcement

  Oct 20 2009 3:41 PM

  Fellows take "Breaking News, Breaking Down" to Sweden

  

  By Deirdre Stoelzle Graves

  2005 Fellow Mike Walter reports on screenings of "Breaking News, Breaking Down" in Sweden. He was accompanied by 2007 Fellow Lena Jakobsson.

• Dart Society Story

  Oct 12 2009

  2008 Fellow Christina Lamb wins war correspondents' prize

  Prix Bayeux-Calvados

  Christina Lamb of The Sunday Times has won the Prix Bayeux-Calvados for her work covering Afghanistan. The British war reporter, now the Times' correspondent in Washington, D.C., is the author of several books, most recently, "Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches From Foreign Lands." The prestigious European award, given in four categories, "is a tribute to journalists working out in the field, those who take risks to act as our witnesses and improve our understanding." Lamb has reported from Afghanistan for 20 years.

   

• Dart Society Story

  Oct 8 2009

  2008 Fellow John Moore heads to Eddie Adams Workshop

  Eddie Adams Workshop

  Getty Images senior staff photographer John Moore is a team leader at the 2009 Eddie Adams Barnstorm XXII Workshop Oct. 9-12 in Jeffersonville, N.Y. The Robert Capa Gold Medal-winning photographer will shoot alongside students and offer advice and feedback during the tuition-free workshop founded by Adams 22 years ago.

  John recently was on the faculty at the Photography at the Summit workshop in Jackson Hole, Wyo.

• Dart Society Story

  Oct 2 2009 2:31 PM

  Kristen Lombardi wins Society of Environmental Journalists' prize

  Society of Environmental Journalists

  Kristen Lombardi, a 2003 Dart Center Ochberg fellow, has won the Society of Environmental Journalists 8th Annual Award for outstanding online reporting. The project, published by the Center for Public Integrity, "explored the broader implications of coal ash befouling water and habitat around the nation. Lombardi looked at the failure of government to crack down on this pollution and at how the industry has been much more effective in working the levers of government than reworking its own practices to protect its neighbors and neighboring landscape. In an age of increasingly shallow reports dominating the Internet, it’s refreshing—and vital—to see a package so richly reported and explained in such an engaging and detailed way. The interactive document library, podcast, map and video add richness to the presentation in ways that demonstrate the power of the online medium."

• Dart Society Story

  Sep 21 2009

  2008 Fellow Moni Basu gets top honor from Religion Newswriters Association

  Religion Newswriters Association

  Moni Basu, a former Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter who is now a news editor at CNN, has been named the Religion Reporter of the Year by the Religion Newswriters Association for her series, "Chaplain Turner's War."

  Basu's series chronicles a military chaplain's service to his country from Baghdad to Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington. RNA judges said the series "…had credibility and authenticity because the writer, in the best tradition of unblinking reporting, told her readers what she witnessed firsthand."

• Dart Society Story

  Sep 18 2009

  Dart Society President Scott North wins Pacific Northwest journalism prize

  The Herald

  Dart Society President Scott North of the Everett Herald has won first-place features writing honors in the 2009 C.B. Blethen Memorial Awards for distinguished newspaper reporting. The prize was given for his series, "A Truth Beyond," which reported the 2002 death of Mylo Harvey after a struggle with Everett, Wash., police and what that tragedy can teach about family, loss and the ability to endure.

  North and his colleague, education reporter Eric Stevick, won second-place honors in investigative reporting for their work that revealed the costs and other details of Everett School District's investigation of a teacher that involved the use of secretly videotaping her classroom. North and the entire Herald staff also won a second-place Blethen award for breaking news coverage of last autumn's floods. 

• Dart Society Story

  Sep 16 2009

  David Handschuh talks trauma at photography fest

  Poynter.org

  It doesn't take a catastrophe like the 2001 terrorist attacks to trigger a crisis, (1999 Ochberg fellow) David Handschuh said a photojournalism conference in St. Petersburg, Fla., this fall. Even journalists covering breaking news like fires, shootings and traffic crashes can undergo emotional turmoil.

  "You guys out there in the trenches have a really high potential to be exposed to a cumulative effect of seeing really bad things," Handschuh said, addressing an annual conference of photographers called GeekFest.