The 2006 election in the Democratic Republic of Congo was supposed to usher in a new period of peace and stability for the beleaguered, exhausted Congolese people. Instead, it made one of the country's most intractable problems worse.
Reporting Global Crises: Six Journalists Tell Their Stories, Columbia University, 4/16
Published April 2, 2008
Event date:
April 16, 2008 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
How journalists found untold stories and got them out – in print, on television and radio, and across the web
A panel discussion with six reporters who have recently returned from overseas reporting on trips sponsored by the Pulitzer Center. Moderated by Professor Bill Berkeley, author of The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa.
Opening remarks by Bill Berkeley and Jon Sawyer, executive director of the Pulitzer Center and former Washington bureau chief for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
April 16, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the World Room at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, located at West 116th Street and Broadway (third floor)
Pulitzer Center grantee William Wheeler reflects on his experience in international reporting and the fraught path from daily journalism to long-form nonfiction.
The humanitarian focus in Gaza will soon begin to shift, thanks to the more than $4 billion in pledges that were made by international donors at the Sharm el-Sheik conference this month.
Among the...
