#7: Daniel Alarcón
Our duPont fellows, Erika Glass and Laura Brickman, bring you an outtake from our conversation with the J school's Daniel Alarcón, who moderated our episode with the producers of Serial.
31 Maj 20165min
#6: June Cross and Journalist Lisa Desai
On Assignment’s season finale features accomplished filmmaker and the founder of Columbia Journalism School’s Documentary Program June Cross. She took the stage at a recent Film Friday screening with producer Lisa Desai to discuss their latest film - Wilhemina’s War, available on PBS until June 1st, then for sale online at Women Make Movies. In this podcast, June walks our audience through the film’s exhaustive five year production, which traces the impact of HIV through three generations of women in a rural South Carolina community. Hear June and Lisa on the successes and pitfalls of documentary filmmaking and the difficulties of covering such an emotionally painful subject.
10 Maj 201633min
#5: Sarah Koenig, Julie Snyder and Dana Chivvis
Listen in on a conversation with the journalists behind the worldwide phenomenon Serial: Host and Executive Producer Sarah Koenig, Executive Producer Julie Snyder and Producer Dana Chivvis. Serial won a 2016 duPont-Columbia Award, and has been downloaded over 200 million times.
26 Apr 201646min
#4: Sacha Pfeiffer and Walter Robinson
In this episode, Spotlight comes to the J-School. Meet the Boston Globe reporters who unveiled a major sexual abuse scandal within the ranks of the Catholic Church. Editor Walter “Robby” Robinson and reporter Sacha Pfieffer discuss taking on the highest of power, how their Pulitzer Prize-winning stories inspired the film Spotlight - the big winner at this year’s Academy Awards, and what it felt like in the audience when the Oscar was announced.
12 Apr 201647min
#3: Joshua Oppenheimer
What would it be like if the Nazis were still in power after the holocaust? Towns all over Indonesia experience this every day. Adi Rukun, an Indonesian optometrist, sets out to confront the men responsible for murdering his brother - The Look of Silence tells his story. The film’s director, Joshua Oppenheimer talks about what happens when the perpetrators of a genocide go unpunished. The Look of Silence is a companion piece to The Act of Killing - both films were nominated for Oscars. Oppenheimer visited Columbia Journalism School last year to show the film and to talk about it afterwards, as part of our Film Fridays documentary series.
29 Mars 201637min
#2: Alex Gibney
What’s it like to take on one of the most powerful institutions in the country? Filmmaker Alex Gibney talks to Professor Betsy West about the making of his controversial, duPont-winning film Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. He discusses the legal risks associated with taking on the Church of Scientology and the psychological hold the church has on its members.
15 Mars 201632min
#1: Alissa J. Rubin and Jill Abramson
New York Times' Paris Bureau Chief Alissa J. Rubin talks to former New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson about covering war-torn countries, the helicopter crash that left her severely injured and reporting on the Paris terror attacks.
1 Mars 201640min
Introducing On Assignment
Coming soon – a chance to listen in on powerful conversations with some of the most influential journalists of today. Upcoming episodes feature the likes of Alissa J. Rubin, Jill Abramson, Joshua Oppenheimer and Alex Gibney. We're excited to share these with you!
23 Feb 20162min
