Colm Tóibín is the author of eight novels, including Brooklyn and Nora Webster and two collections of stories, Mothers and Sons and The Empty Family. He has been three times shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; his play The Testament of Mary was nominated for a Tony Award in 2013. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is a Contributing Editor at the London Review of Books and Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. Tóibín’s visit is being co-sponsored by Culture Ireland.
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Our speakers include Lonnie Isabel who teaches at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Peter S. Goodman, the Global Editor-In-Chief of the International Business Times, and Sam Fleming, Director of News and Programming at WBUR. Lonnie Isabel teaches at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Isabel spent 25 years in the newspaper business, covering or directing the coverage of several presidential campaigns including the fabled 2000 election. He also ran the coverage of Hillary Clinton’s run for Senate, the impeachment of Bill Clinton, and just about every major national and international story of his generation. He has covered each national political convention since 1984. Isabel has worked for Newsday, the Boston Globe, Boston Herald and Oakland Tribune. After leaving Newsday as deputy managing editor in 2005, Isabel joined the newly-created CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, where he started the International Reporting Program that has trained more than 75 journalists to cover international issues, and the International Journalist-in-Residence program that brings an endangered, targeted or threatened journalist each year to study and work at the school. He started at Columbia last year. He is co-author of a book to be released this summer, “Think/Point/Shoot: Media Ethics, Technology and Global Change”. Peter S. Goodman is the Global Editor-In-Chief of the International Business Times, where he supervises more than 200 journalists across worldwide editions. He was previously Executive Business and Global News Editor for the Huffington Post, where he oversaw business, technology and international reporting while writing a column that earned a Loeb award for commentary. Goodman was the National Economic Correspondent for the New York Times during the Great Recession. There, he played a central role in “The Reckoning,” a series of stories on the roots of the 2008 financial crisis, which won a Loeb and was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize. Goodman is the author of Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy. Sam Fleming is Director of News and Programming at WBUR. He’s responsible for supervising a staff of 75, including news managers, producers, reporters, writers, editors, hosts and production staff. Under his direction, WBUR’s News Department has garnered more than 50 national and local awards recognizing the quality and depth of its news coverage. Fleming first worked at the station in 1981 as a general assignment reporter. In 1992, he became WBUR’s News Director, a position he held until 2004. In that role he oversaw the breadth, depth and daily workings of the news produced at WBUR and helped to manage the content of daily broadcasts in their diverse forms
First Parish Church in Cambridge
Leslie Jamison
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Austin Blackmon Chief of Environment and Energy, City of Boston
Suffolk University Law School, Room 295
Lev Golinkin.
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Greg Nojeim directs the Freedom, Security and Technology Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington D.C. NGO dedicated to Internet freedom. Nojeim's expertise is in protecting personal privacy in the digital age, against government intrusion. He leads CDT's cybersecurity work and has testified before Congress about the impact of cybersecurity proposals on privacy.
First Parish Church in Cambridge
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David Siddhartha Patel Junior Research Fellow, Crown Center for Middle East Studies of Brandeis University
Suffolk University
Michael Roth
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Moderated by State Representative Byron Rushing
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