Ten Journalists Named 2010 Dart Center Ochberg Fellows In Trauma Reporting

The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia Universityâ€™s Graduate School of Journalism today has announced the recipients of their 2010 Dart Center Ochberg Fellowships. These are awarded to journalists in all media who have demonstrated their commitment to reporting traumatic events such as street crime, family violence, natural disasters, war and genocide. Fellows will attend a weeklong program, spend several days in seminars held in in Montreal this coming November, and participate in the annual conference of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. A list of this year's recipients appears after the jump. Solange Azevedo has been a reporter for the magazine Revista Epoca for ten years. She was named a winner of the 2009 Human Rights and Service to the Community Award by the Inter American Press Association and was selected by the Fundacion para un Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (New Journalism Foundation) to participate in an exchange program for journalists coordinated by the World Press Institute. Cecilia Balli is a contributor to Texas Monthly and Harper's magazines. She is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Texas ans writes about violence along the U.S.-Mexican border. Balli is currently authoring a book about the construction of a border fence. Patrick Farrell has been a photographer at The Miami Herald since 1987. He is the recipient of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. In 1993, he and the Herald staff won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for their coverage of Hurricane Andrew. Susan Kaplan has been a public radio reporter at the NPR affiliate WFCR, based in Western Massachusetts, since 1995. Her work focuses on education, innovative technologies and most recently women in the military, including stories on military sexual trauma among female veterans. Teru Kuwayama is a freelance photographer. His work has appeared in Life, Time, Newsweek, National Geographic and Outside. In recent years, he has focused on photographing the conflict and the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kashmir. He is the co-founder of the website Lightstalkers.org and launched The Battlespace Project. Russell Lewis is the Southern Bureau Chief for NPR News. He focuses on the issues and news central to the Southeast and assigns and edits stories from station-based reporters and freelancers. He spent a year in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, coordinating NPR's coverage of the rebuilding effort. He was a frequent contributor to NPR, specializing in military and business issues. Jacques Menasche is an independent writer, editor, and filmmaker. He has worked as a desk clerk at The New York Times and has since covered conflict and culture around the world, writing for The New York Daily News, ESPN The Magazine, Vanity Fair, Fader, The Independent, and Corriere dela Sera. Brett McLeod is a journalist with the Nine Network in Melbourne Australia. His has covered attacks in Israel, Madrid and Istanbul. In 2004, he traveled to Banda Aceh and covered the devastating aftermath of the Asian tsunami, one of which received a Quill award for best news story. Dave Philipps is a reporter for The Colorado Springs Gazette, where he writes long-form investigative pieces as well as light features. He was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in the local reporting category for his series, "Casualties of War." His work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, Los Angeles Times and Philadelphia Inquirer. Juliana Ruhfus is a reporter and filmmaker. She has been the reporter on the Al Jazeera English flagship People & Power strand. She aims to make films that explore "shades of grey," which tell stores that go beyond headlines. Ruhfus has worked as an expert to the UN Security Council Sanctions committee tasked with investigating violations of the arms embargo on Somalia, has consulted on investigations into the illegal arms trade and has written for newspapers.

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Ten Journalists Named 2010 Dart Center Ochberg Fellows In Trauma Reporting

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