With a world class faculty and up-to-date production facilities, Hunter College’s Department of Film & Media Studies offers two undergraduate programs of study and an MFA degree in Integrated Media Arts. [more...]
The Aronson Awards & The Jaime Lucero Mexican Studies Institute/CUNY
present Crisis for Mexican Journalists
Panel & Discussion | Free & Open to the Public
No RSVP needed.
Tuesday, May 21st
6:30PM Reception
7PM Program
Lang Recital Hall
(Hunter College North 4th fl.)
Speakers
Marcela Turati, Courageous Award- Winning Mexican Journalist
Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul, Mexican Reporter, Leader of Democracy Fighters
Alexandra Ellerbeck, Committee to Protect Journalists
Congrats to Prof. Kelly Anderson! She is the recipient of the 2019 Rockwood JustFilms Fellowship.
This fellowship brings together 12 leaders working at the intersection of storytelling, film, and social change to learn powerful skills that will shift their capacity for leadership and collaboration. This cohort represents a wide range of established leaders in the film and digital storytelling sectors including: organizational leaders, media impact producers, filmmakers, thought leaders, curators, archivists, and critics. Through two residential retreats, peer coaching sessions, and additional leadership support, they will develop stronger working partnerships with each other, and with leaders of other social movements.
Reporting the news on the radio or in an audio news story is definitely not as easy as it sounds, but coaching definitely helps, especially when it’s from a former anchor and correspondent from network and cable news. Last Thursday, former NBC News and Fox News anchor Linda Vester offered her coaching services to Reporting and Writing 2 students in Professor Sissel McCarthy’s class as they prepare to write, report and deliver their first audio news stories.
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