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The final installment of our “Women We Love” series features Nikole Hannah-Jones— investigative reporter for the New York Times Magazine, known for her extensive coverage of racial justice and civil rights for outlets including ProPublica, The Atlantic and Essence Magazine. She’s won many awards, including the 2012 Columbia Journalism School Tobenkin Award for distinguished coverage of racial or religious discrimination, and a Polk Award for her 2016 This American Life episode about school desegregation in Missouri. Hannah-Jones discussed these experiences at the Columbia Journalism School in September as part of our Delacorte Lecture Series, which brings in leading writers and editors from the magazine world to speak to our students.

10 Nov 201629min

The third installment of our “Women We Love” series features Kelly McEvers—co-host of NPR’s All Things Considered and veteran conflict reporter. McEvers shares her experiences covering the Arab Spring, the war in Iraq and more recently, back home reporting for her podcast Embedded. Listen to the episode, then check out McEvers' poignant self-reflective radio documentary on why reporters, herself included, risk their lives in conflict zones, Diary of a Bad Year.

20 Okt 201631min

The second installment of our “Women We Love” series features Monica Alba—embed journalist at NBC News, Columbia Journalism School alum and former duPont Fellow. In the episode, Alba shares some behind-the-scenes insight into what life is like on the campaign trail with Hillary Clinton. She’s been part of Clinton’s press corps for more than a year, and she stole an hour away to return to the J School so we could hear what it’s like to be on the tarmac day-after-day with the campaign. Hint: “Stamina” is the word of the episode. Learn more about what Alba and her fellow campaign embeds experience on the trail here. Watch Alba discuss the email scandal and Bernie Sanders’ campaign with Clinton here. The “Women We Love” series features great conversations with women who are in the field, setting an example for our students with their outstanding reporting. All have a special connection to our Columbia J-School Prizes Department.

6 Okt 201623min

In episode 2 we interrupt our Women We Love series for a breaking story - a conversation with New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman, who literally wrote the book on the Roger Ailes/Fox News story, and has led the pack on it since. His latest is a cover story detailing the recent developments regarding the sexual allegations directed at Ailes, with new revelations. Professor Bill Grueskin talks to Sherman with a room full of interested journalists and journalists-in-training, just as we learn the news that Fox News has settled anchor Gretchen Carlson's lawsuit for 20 million dollars. Then we talk to Grueskin in our On Assignment studio to hear what impressed him most about Sherman's exhaustive work.

22 Sep 201646min

On Assignment's season two premiere is the first episode in a series called, Women We Love. These episodes will feature great conversations with women who are out in the field setting an example for our students with their outstanding reporting. All have a special connection to our Columbia J-School Prizes Department. Our first episode features filmmaker Kirsten Johnson, whose film Cameraperson, was the final screening at the duPont sponsored film series Film Fridays last spring. She has worked as the principal cinematographer on over 40 feature-length documentaries. Some of her credits include award-winning pieces like “The Invisible War,” “Pray the Devil Back to Hell,” “Fahrenheit 9/11” and “Women, War and Peace.” Kirsten has a longstanding collaboration with Oscar-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras and is credited as cinematographer for “The Oath,” “Citizenfour,” and the upcoming "Asylum." Her directorial debut, Cameraperson, is a deeply personal and autobiographical film that Kirsten calls, “an acknowledgement of how complex it is to film and be filmed.” It was an official selection for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Cameraperson opens at the IFC Center in New York City on September 9th.

8 Sep 201635min

The final episode of our mini season features three time duPont-Columbia winner WVUE Chief Investigative Reporter, Lee Zurik. Lee demands unprecedented accountability from government officials, private citizens and corporations in New Orleans. Listen in on a conversation between Lee and Lisa at the recent Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) annual conference, where he talks about one of the most outrageous objects of his scrutiny, plus how he cultivates sources.

6 Juli 20169min

NPR Congressional Correspondent Ailsa Chang joins Abi for a conversation on her transition from law to journalism and being open to a career’s unexpected turns. Ailsa won a duPont Award in 2012 for her two-part investigative series on allegations of illegal searches and unlawful marijuana arrests by the New York City Police Department.

28 Juni 201611min

We kick off On Assignment’s Summer Mini Series with CBS News 60 Minutes producer and duPont winner, Nicole Young. In this episode, Nicole talks about the power of the follow-up, and how one unplanned question led to the best moment in Hard Times, a story about homelessness in Florida.

21 Juni 201610min