Students: This just in as well. Journalists and journalism topics are, once
again, proving popular at Miami -- even outside of the JRN Program! -- PGN
Patricia Gallagher Newberry
Lecturer and Coordinator of Special Events and Internships
Journalism Program
Miami University
Bachelor Hall 310
513.529.5893
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NICHOLAS KRISTOF: ³HALF THE SKY² SEPT. 19
Part of International Studiesı 50th Anniversary Events
OXFORD, Ohio Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning
columnist for The New York Times, will speak about his most recent book,
co-authored with his wife Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression
Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, in Miami
Universityıs Hall Auditorium. His talk is part of the 50th anniversary
celebration of Miamiıs international studies program.
Kristof, named one of Americaıs Best Leaders in 2007 by the
U.S. News and World Report and Harvardıs Center for Public Leadership for
showing a ³new generation that journalists can advocate for change,² often
writes about global health, poverty and gender issues in the developing
world.
Kristof joined The New York Times in 1984, initially
covering economics and serving as a correspondent in Los Angeles, Hong Kong,
Beijing and Tokyo. Later he was associate managing editor of the Times,
responsible for Sunday editions.
In 1990 Kristof and WuDunn, then also a Times journalist,
won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of Chinaıs Tiananmen Square
democracy movement. They were the first married couple to win a Pulitzer
for journalism. In 2006 Kristof won a Pulitzer for commentary for his
columns that ³at personal risk, focused attention on genocide in Darfur and
gave to the voiceless in other parts of the world.² He also has won other
prizes including the George Polk Award, the Overseas Press Club award, the
Michael Kelly award, the Online News Association award and the American
Society of Newspaper Editors award.
Kristof and WuDunn were recently named the recipients of the
2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for lifetime achievement.
Kristof was the first blogger on The New York Times Web
site. ³Reporter,² a documentary about him, premiered at the 2009 Sundance
Film Festival and will be shown on HBO.
Half the Sky, from the Chinese saying ³women hold up half
the sky,² lays out an agenda for the worldıs women and three major abuses:
³sex trafficking and forced prostitution; gender-based violence including
honor killings and mass rape; (and) maternal mortality, which needlessly
claims one woman a minute,² according to the authors, who claim that the
best way to fight poverty and extremism is to educate and empower women and
girls.
Kristofıs talk is free and open to the public. It is
sponsored by the Grayson Kirk lecture series and the international studies
program.
The 50th anniversary celebration of the international
studies program also includes panel discussions on careers in international
studies at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, in 212 MacMillan Hall. Other events
for program alumni are scheduled. For more information contact Melanie
Ziegler, acting director of the program, at [log in to unmask]; to register
for alumni events, go to
http://www.miamialum.org/s/916/internalNL.aspx?sid=916&gid=1&pgid=1448.
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