Join us for a day with some of the most experienced reporters and editors in the business. The conference will focus on the nuts and bolts of working outside the United States.

9:00 to 9:15Ì¢‰â”Coffee

9:15 Introductions. Omar Fekeiki

9:30-11:00 Reporting Abroad from an Editor’s POV. What do editors from Mother Jones, Frontline and the Christian Science Monitor look for from freelancers?

Moderator: Malia Wollan, Graduate School of Journalism

David C. Scott
For the past nine years, David Clark Scott has been the international news editor for The Christian Science Monitor Ì¢‰â‰” coordinating the newspaper’s prize-winning coverage from eight overseas bureaus and from dozens of freelance writers. In 2006, he was part of a Monitor team dedicated to getting reporter Jill Carroll home after her kidnapping in Iraq. In 2007, he won the Dart Society’s Mimi Award for editing. As a correspondent, he covered Wall Street and served overseas reporting print and broadcast stories as the Monitor’s Latin America bureau chief and as the Australasia bureau chief.

Steve Talbot
In a career of more than 25 years in public television, Stephen Talbot has written and produced over 30 documentaries, including ten films for the PBS series, Frontline. Along the way, he has won nearly every major award in the field Ì¢‰â‰” Emmys, Peabodys, a DuPont, a George Polk, even an “Edgar” from the Mystery Writers of America. His most recent work is “News War: What’s Happening to the News” (2007) a 90-min. Frontline report on the state of the news media with reporter Lowell Bergman. Talbot is also the Series Editor for Frontline/World, Frontline’s international news magazine, where he helps commission and supervise broadcast stories and oversees the series web site.

Mother Jones Editor TK

New York Times Editor TK

11:00-11:15: Break

11-15 to 12:45 Working Abroad from the Journalist’s POV: How do they get ideas, sell stories and report and write on a limited budget.

Moderator: Sidya Bhanoo, Graduate School of Journalism

Steve Fainaru
Steve Fainaru is a correspondent for The Washington Post’s foreign staff. He has covered the war in Iraq since 2004, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting in 2006. He has worked for The Post since 2000, previously covering the war on terrorism and civil liberties, and serving as an investigative reporter focusing on sports. Previously he worked 11 years at The Boston Globe, covering the Boston Red Sox, Wall Street and Latin America. He served as that newspaper’s Latin America bureau chief. Steve, who is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is the co-author of The Duke of Havana: Baseball, Cuba and the Search for the American Dream, which chronicled the odyssey of pitcher Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez and his defection from post-Cold War Cuba.
He is currently working on a book on private security contractors in Iraq, to be published in the Fall 2008.

Iason Athanasiadis
Iason Athanasiadis is a 2008 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He has covered the greater Middle East for the past ten years, with stints living in Syria, Egypt, Iran and Qatar. Iason speaks Arabic and Persian fluently and chooses to live in the countries he reports on to achieve deeper sensitivity of the issues and emotions at play. He has covered events in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries in the region for English and Greek-language print, radio and television outlets.

Gaiutra Bahadur
Gaiutra Bahadur is a 2008 Nieman Fellow at Harvard. She covered the war in Iraq for Knight Ridder in 2005. A former staff writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Austin American-Statesman, she focuses on migration and refugee issues. Gaiutra’s freelance book reviews and reportage have appeared in Ms. magazine, salon.com, the Miami Herald, New York Newsday, Little India and Outlook Traveler. Bahadur was born in Guyana and came to the United States with her family at the age of six. She contributed a chapter about growing up immigrant in Jersey City to “Living on the Edge of the World,” a Simon & Schuster literary anthology about New Jersey that was released in June 2007.

Monica Campbell
Monica Campbell has worked as a freelance journalist based in Mexico City since 2003. A California native, she moved to Mexico after earning a master’s degree in Latin American and Caribbean studies at New York University and working as a deputy Latin America editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit in New York. Since moving to Mexico, she has covered immigration and economic and political events from throughout Latin America. Her regular clients include The Chronicle of Higher Education, Economist Intelligence Unit, San Francisco Chronicle and Newsweek. She has also written for The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, I.D., The Boston Globe, The San Diego Union-Tribune and Amnesty International. She is also the Mexico representative for the Committee to Protect Journalists and a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

1-2:00 p.m. A lunchtime Conversation with Women Working Abroad.

Moderator: Emma Brown

Huda Ahmed
Huda Ahmed is an Iraqi journalist, currently studying in the United States. She is the recipient of the Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship, sponsored by the International Women’s Media Foundation. She also received a joint fellowship for the 2007-2008 academic year at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University.
She was cited for Ì¢‰âÒextraordinaryÌ¢‰âÂå bravery by Knight Ridder for her coverage of the siege of Najaf, and, along with her five female colleagues of the McClatchy Baghdad bureau, received the 2007 Courage in Journalism Award by the International WomenÌ¢‰â‰ã¢s Media Foundation.
Ahmed has reported and translated for The Washington Post in Baghdad from April 2003 to July 2004. She is currently a reporter for McClatchy Newspapers in Baghdad. For both publications, she has assisted in coverage and translation for a wide range of breaking news and feature stories including: the bloody siege of Najaf, Iraq’s historic elections, and corruption in the new Iraqi security forces and women involvement post war Iraq.

Tyche Hendricks, Reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle covering immigration.

2:15 to 3:45 The View from Abroad: The Stories American Journalists are Missing

Moderator: Manal Ahmad, Graduate School of Journalism

Dev Chatterjee
Dev Chtterjee is a Mumbai-based senior assistant editor with The Business Standard, a business daily published from major cities in India. He has written extensively on the Indian stock markets since he began his career in 1991 as an editor in training at The Financial Express. He holds a B.A. in economics and journalism from the University of Mumbai.

Liu Jianqiang
Liu Jianqiang is a senior investigative reporter with Southern Weekend, one of China’s top investigative newspapers. He has produced a series of influential reports on the environment, and his stories have led China’s central government to suspend illegally constructed dams.
Liu was featured in the Wall Street Journal last December. He has an M.A. in journalism from Tsinghua University and a B.A. in political science from East China University of Science and Technology.
Young Jun Lee
Young Jun Lee is a senior producer at the Korean Broadcasting System in Seoul. He has worked as a television producer/director for 16 years and holds a B.A. in sociology. He has launched programs on terrorism and Korea’s elderly. He was a winner of the 2002 Korean Broadcasting Grand Prize and was selected as producer of the year in 2001.

Sandy Tolan
BIO to come

4:00-5:30 The Anatomy of Three Stories: A PhotoEssay, a multimedia project, a photo project. Where did the idea begin? How was it sold? How was it reported? Special problems in executing the assignment? Challenges in finishing it up.

Moderator: Ben Hubbard

Jonathan Finer
Jonathan Finer is a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post where he has covered the 2003 invasion of Iraq while embedded with the U.S. Marines, the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign, and the 2006 Lebanon War from Northern Israel. For 15 months in 2005-2006 he was an Iraq correspondent based in Baghdad. He has also reported extensively from Jordan, Kuwait, the Palestinian Territories and the Balkan nations and written travel articles from Dubai, Nicaragua and Iceland. He began his journalism career as a reporter and associate editor at the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong, reporting from China, Japan and Mongolia, before moving to the Post in 2002 as an intern in the business section. He is currently on leave from the Post to study at Yale Law School. He has previously earned degrees from Harvard and Oxford universities.

Robert Nickelsberg
Robert Nickelsberg grew up in New Jersey and graduated in 1972 from the University of Vermont, where he studied Economics and History. After attending photography courses at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Apeiron Photography Workshops, Nickelsberg began photographing for a humanitarian fundraising organization and in 1978 joined the election campaign as a photographer of U.S. Congressman Andrew Maguire of New Jersey. In 1979, Nickelsberg traveled to Central America and photographed the final days of Nicaragua’s Somoza government. In 1981, he moved to El Salvador and began a 4-year stay covering Central America as a contract photographer for Time Magazine. Nickelsberg moved to South East Asia in 1986 and New Delhi, India in 1988. Nickelsberg has extensively documented the insurgency in India’s Kashmir, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Afghanistan and Pakistan and India’s Hindu nationalism movement. Nickelsberg relocated to the U.S. in 1999. In 2003, he covered the Iraq invasion for Time Magazine traveling with the U.S. Marines into Baghdad. He continues to document the social changes and on-going effects of terrorism and Islamic insurgencies in South Asia and the Middle East. In 2007, Nickelsberg was awarded a research grant from the South Asia Journalists Association and the Dart Foundation for a study on trauma after 20 years of insurgency in Kashmir.

Amar BakshiÌ¢‰â”How the World Sees America: PostGlobal
Amar C. Bakshi is currently reporting for the online editions of The Washington Post and Newsweek, traveling around the world looking at how America impacts ordinary lives in a dozen countries. He posts text and video daily at www.washingtonpost.com/america.
Before launching How the World Sees America, Amar worked with David Ignatius, Hal Straus, and Fareed Zakaria as the first editor of PostGlobal, an international affairs forum. Amar is also the founder of Aina Arts, a nonprofit organization connecting local artisans with schools in the developing world, and was the associate managing editor of the Oxford International Review. He graduated from Harvard as the first joint concentrator in Social Studies (theory) and Visual & Environmental Studies (documentary video), writing his thesis on media propaganda in Zimbabwe.
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/

Limited Space. Reservations must be made by April 5th.
Please contact Omar Fekeiki omarfekeiki@yahoo.com