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Visual Storytelling and Violence: A Conversation with Donna De Cesare (APF 1997) and Fred Ritchin Location: Open Society Foundations–New YorkEvent Date: November 14, 2013Event Time: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.Speakers: Donna De Cesare and Fred Ritchin Photojournalist Donna De Cesare speaks with NYU professor Fred Ritchin about her new book “Unsettled: Children in a World of Gangs.”

Columbia Journalism School Announces Winners of the 75th Annual Maria Moors Cabot Prizes for Outstanding Reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean   Special 75th Anniversary Events to include high-level conference on Latin American press freedom    NEW YORK, September 5, 2013— The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism today announced the 2013 winners of the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes for outstanding reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean. The oldest international award in journalism will be celebrating its 75th anniversary this year with a special series of events. The Cabot Prize honors journalists who have covered the Western Hemisphere and, through their reporting and editorial work, have furthered inter-American understanding. The 2013 gold medalists are Jon Lee Anderson, USA, The New Yorker; Donna De Cesare, USA; Documentary Photographer and Freelance Writer; Mauri König, Brazil, Special Reporter, Gazeta do Povo, Curitiba; Alejandro Santos Rubino, Colombia, Editor-in-Chief, Revista Semana. In a special ceremony, Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez will be present to accept the citation originally awarded to her in 2009. The Cuban government had barred her

Fotoseptiembre: Reflejos del mundo – Featuring book signing by photographer Donna De Cesare, a 1997 APF fellow. Join Donna De Cesare with other Austin artists in the Fotoseptiembre exhibition at La Pena. There will be a small exhibition of her work on immigrants shown at Harvard University last spring and a special signing for her book Unsettled / Desasosiego La Peña, 227 Congress Avenue, Austin, TX – September 7, 2013 https://www.facebook.com/events/180187418814031/

Recently published books from Alicia Patterson Fellows. The Alicia Patterson Foundation is proud to announce the release of four new books from past fellows. Links to the books’ Amazon pages are listed below. Wealth and Power by Orville Schell (APF”80) and John Delury. (Random House).China experts Schell and Delury focus on eleven key Chinese individuals to show that China is trying to restore its national greatness through fuqiang (wealth and power).http://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Power-Chinas-Twenty-first-Century/dp/067964… The Butler by Wil Haygood (APF’ 1988). (Atria Books)Haygood’s interviews with Eugene Allen, who worked as the White House butler for 34 years, has been made into a movie by Lee Daniels. Haygood’s book recounts the experiences that Allen had while serving eight presidents. The film, which opens in mid-August, 2013, stars Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Vanessa Redgrave, John Cusack, Jane Fonda, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Robin Williams.http://www.amazon.com/Butler-Witness-History-Wil-Haygood/dp/1476752990 The Science Writers’ Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Pitch, Publish, and Prosper in the Digital Age – co-edited by Michelle Nijhuis (APF’2011) and Thomas Hayden. (Da Capo Press).Two dozen award-winning science writers discuss how

APF Fellow Donna DeCesare has just released her first book Unsettled/Desasosiego: Children in a World of Gangs. Some of the original work for this book was done during Ms. DeCesare’s 1997 fellowship. The book is a bi-lingual memoir of Ms. DeCesare’s time photographing gang-life in Central America. Ms. DeCesare’s fellowship title was “Youth Identity and Gang Violence in the Americas.” Her fellowship work covered life during and after gang participation in countries from Haiti to El Salvador. Ms. DeCesare has an event for the book release at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles on May 9th. On June 2nd her work will be featured in the show, War / Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath, also at the Annenberg Space for Photography. Please visit Donna DeCesare’s website for more information on this book, other projects and events.