Events
KWF on Campus
The State of Women in Sports Media
SHARP Insights with Joanne Gerstner
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Noon to 1:30 p.m.
2239 Lane Hall
204 S. State Street
It's been more than 40 years since the first women entered mainstream
sports media as reporters and editors. Since then, women have gone on
to hold some of the most influential positions in the field. However,
the numbers of women in sports media continue to hover under 10
percent in traditional newsrooms. What does the present, and future,
look like for women?
Joanne Gerstner '13 is an award-winning multimedia sports journalist. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, ESPN.com, Detroit News, NPR.com and other outlets. She is the past president and chair of the board for the Association for Women in Sports Media.
KWF on Campus
Author's Forum: In the Light of Darkness: A Photographer's Journey After 9/11
Kate Brooks '13 spoke this month with Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the Univeristy of Michgan, at the Aurthor's Forum. Presenting images from her book, Brooks brought the audience along with her on a ten-year odyssey covering world changing events, from the hunt for Osama bin Laden in the moutains of Tora Bora and the the American invasion of Iraq, to Lebanon's disenfranchised Palestinian population and the country's power struggles with Syria and Israel, the protests in Egypt's Tahrir Square and the beginning of the war in Libya.
KWF Event: The 27th Graham Hovey Lecture
Knight-Wallace Fellows, alumni and over 100 guests from the University gathered at Wallace House for the 27th Graham Hovey Lecture presented by Matthias Schepp, Moscow bureau chief for Der Spiegel and KWF alumnus.
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KWF on Campus
The Battle over Climate Change
Tom Clynes, Knight-Wallace alumnus spoke last month on The Battle over Climate Change at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Anthrax scares, nuisance lawsuits and political attacks and are all in a day's work for some climate scientists. In this lecture, Clynes brought the audience behind the scenes of his deeply reported feature story for Popular Science, and shared some of the more entertaining (and at times absurd) moments with prominent players in the climate-science-denial community - including Senator James Inhofe, author of "The Greatest Hoax".
Tom Clynes is a contributing editor for Popular Science and 2010 Knight-Wallace Fellow. During his fellowship he studied the prediction and prevention of global pandemics. He also writes and photographs for National Geographic, Men's Journal, GQ, and other publications.
Commentary provided by Andrew Hoffman, Holcim (US), Inc. Professor in Sustainable Enterprise, Professor of Natural Resources and Environment, SNRE and Professor of Management and Organizations, Stephen M Ross School of Business. This event was open to the public.
