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If you’ve ever thought about writing an op-ed piece for a major newspaper, had an idea piece for a popular periodical or about speaking on radio, join leading news editors and prolific faculty colleagues for a lively panel discussion.
This event featured:
Caroline Elkins
Professor of History and of African and African American Studies;
Chair of the Committee on African Studies
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Elkins’s first book, Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya, was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. It was also selected as one of the Economist’s best history books for 2005, was a New York Times editor’s choice, and was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Award. Professor Elkins is a contributor to The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, and The New Republic. She has also appeared on numerous radio and television programs including NPR’s All Things Considered, BBC’s The World, and PBS’s Charlie Rose. Professor Elkins’s current research interests include colonial violence and post-conflict reconciliation in Africa, and violence and the decline of the British Empire. Professor Elkins teaches courses on modern Africa, protest in East Africa, human rights in Africa, and British colonial violence in the 20th century.
Edward Glaeser
Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics; Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University; Harvard Kennedy School
Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1992. He is Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and Director of the Rappaport Institute of Greater Boston. He teaches urban and social economics and microeconomic theory. He has published dozens of papers on cities, economic growth, and law and economics. In particular, his work has focused on the determinants of city growth and the role of cities as centers of idea transmission. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1992.
Trish Hall
Op-Ed Editor
The New York Times
Hall has been serving as Times Op-Ed editor since February of 2011. She has held many positions at The New York Times, starting as a food reporter and eventually editing a number of the paper’s weekly sections, including business, food and real estate. Before becoming Op Ed editor, she was an assistant managing editor in charge of the feature sections. She has also worked for the Wall Street Journal, Martha Stewart Living and the Associated Press. She grew up in northeastern Pennsylvania and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
Amanda Katz
Deputy Editor of the Ideas Section
The Boston Globe
Katz is a writer, editor, and translator who has written for the New York Times, NPR Books, the Boston Globe, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian, among other publications. She is currently the deputy editor of the Boston Globe Ideas section. A former editor of nonfiction and literary fiction at Bloomsbury USA and a copy editor at the San Francisco Bay Guardian, she went on to write the Boston Globe’s weekly Bibliophiles column. She has also translated a number of books from French for Abrams. Amanda Katz holds an MFA in poetry from Brown University, where she taught creative writing and coached dissertation writers. Her poetry and translations from French have been published in the New Yinzer, Aufgabe, EOAGH, and the Germ.
Moderated by:
Ann Marie Lipinski
Curator
Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
Lipinski is curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, a position she assumed in 2011. Before coming to Harvard, Lipinski served as senior lecturer and vice president for civic engagement at the University of Chicago. Prior to that, she was the editor of the Chicago Tribune, a post she held for nearly eight years following assignments as managing editor, metropolitan editor and investigations editor. As a reporter at the Tribune, Lipinski was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism for stories she did with two other reporters on corruption in the Chicago City Council. While editor of the paper, she oversaw work that won the Tribune Pulitzers in several categories including international reporting, feature writing, editorial writing, investigative reporting and explanatory journalism. Lipinski was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 2003-2012 and served as co-chair during her last year. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in the class of 1990.