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Stories of 4 Prominent Journalists | April 29
Friends Seminary's 2014-2015 Visiting Scholar Jill Abramson, former Executive Editor of the The New York Times, will return to campus on Wednesday, April 29 to lead a panel discussion featuring three prominent female journalists: Lisa Tozzi, News Director of BuzzFeed; Rita Braver, Senior Correspondent of CBS News; and Sophia Hollander '98, Reporter at The Wall Street Journal.
Friends Seminary's 2014-2015 Visiting Scholar Jill Abramson, former Executive Editor of the The New York Times, will return to campus on Wednesday, April 29 to lead a panel discussion featuring three other prominent female journalists: Lisa Tozzi, News Director of BuzzFeed; Rita Braver, Senior Correspondent of CBS News; and Sophia Hollander '98, Reporter at The Wall Street Journal. The four panelists will discuss their experiences as journalists in a predominantly male industry.
The panel discussion will take place from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Fifteenth Street Meetinghouse (enter at 222 East 16th Street). A reception will be held prior, from 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP at www.friendsseminary.org/april29.
At The New York Times, Jill Abramson was the first woman to serve as Washington Bureau Chief, Managing Editor and Executive Editor. Before joining the Times, she was Deputy Washington Bureau Chief and an investigative reporter covering money and politics at The Wall Street Journal for nine years. She is the author of three books including Strange Justice, which she wrote with Jane Mayer. Before joining Harvard's English Department as a lecturer teaching non-fiction narrative writing, she taught undergraduate writing seminars at Yale for five years and at Princeton. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and The American Philosophical Society.
ABOUT THE PANELIST
At The New York Times, Jill Abramson was the first woman to serve as Washington Bureau Chief, Managing Editor and Executive Editor. Before joining the Times, she was Deputy Washington Bureau Chief and an investigative reporter covering money and politics at The Wall Street Journal for nine years. She is the author of three books including Strange Justice, which she wrote with Jane Mayer. Before joining Harvard's English Department as a lecturer teaching non-fiction narrative writing, she taught undergraduate writing seminars at Yale for five years and at Princeton. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and The American Philosophical Society.
Rita Braver is a senior correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning, where she reports on everything from arts and culture to politics and foreign policy. Her assignments include a wide variety of topics, from following candidates on the campaign trail to discerning national trends. She has won five Emmy Awards, including one for investigative reporting and two for coverage of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Braver spent four years as CBS News' Chief White House Correspondent from 1993 to 1997, covering a broad range of domestic and foreign issues. Prior to that, Braver spent a decade as CBS News' law correspondent from 1983 to 1993, reporting primarily for the CBS Evening News. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in political science. Braver and her husband, Robert Barnett, live in Washington, D.C., and have one daughter.
Sophia Hollander, a 1998 graduate of Friends Seminary, is an award-winning reporter covering private schools and food for The Wall Street Journal. A native of Manhattan's Lower East Side, she has written about sports, culture, food, politics, law, religion and urban planning. She previously worked as the senior writer for NYC2012, New York City's Olympic Bid (where she became one of the few people to write speeches for both Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush), and then worked as a speechwriter and policy analyst for Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff at City Hall, where she wrote the city's long-term sustainability plan PLANYC. She earned a bachelor's in history from Princeton University and studied abroad at Oxford University.
Sophia Hollander, a 1998 graduate of Friends Seminary, is an award-winning reporter covering private schools and food for The Wall Street Journal. A native of Manhattan's Lower East Side, she has written about sports, culture, food, politics, law, religion and urban planning. She previously worked as the senior writer for NYC2012, New York City's Olympic Bid (where she became one of the few people to write speeches for both Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush), and then worked as a speechwriter and policy analyst for Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff at City Hall, where she wrote the city's long-term sustainability plan PLANYC. She earned a bachelor's in history from Princeton University and studied abroad at Oxford University.
Lisa Tozzi is the news director at BuzzFeed News, where she has worked since May 2013. Prior to that, she worked at the The New York Times for 13 years, working on four presidential elections, and scores of major news events including the attacks ofSeptember 11, Hurricane Katrina, and the Boston Marathon Bombings. Prior to coming to The Times, Ms. Tozzi was the assistant politics editor and a reporter for The Austin Chronicle in Texas, and a reporter covering central New Jersey for The News Tribune. A 1992 graduate of Rutgers University, she lives in Washington Heights with her husband, Craig Campanella, and their dog, Quincy.
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