1. The New Yorker Festival - Advocacy Journalism
Reporting on what you care about. Nicholas Lemann, moderator. With Christiane
Amanpour, Jon Lee Anderson, Katherine Boo, and Rich Lowry. Nicholas Lemann has
been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999 and currently writes the Wayward
Press column for the magazine. He is the dean of Columbia University's Graduate
School of Journalism. In his article "Fear and Favor", which appeared in the February
14th issue, he wrote about criticism of the media during the 2004 election. Christiane
Amanpour is CNN's chief international correspondent. Over the past 23 years, she
has reported on most crises from the world's major conflict zones, including
Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia, Rwanda, and the Balkans. Her
coverage of the Balkans, from 1991 to 1997, won, among other awards, a News and
Documentary Emmy and two Peabody Awards. Jon Lee Anderson has been a staff
writer for The New Yorker since 1999. He is the author of The Lion's Grave:
Dispatches from Afghanistan, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, Guerrillas, and,
most recently, The Fall of Baghdad. His Profile of Hamid Karzai, the President of
Afghanistan, appeared in the June 6th issue of the magazine. Katherine Boo is a staff
writer at The New Yorker. Her article "The Marriage Cure", on government-sponsored
seminars to encourage marriage for the poor, received a National Magazine Award
for Feature Writing last year. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in
2000 and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2002. Rich Lowry joined the National
Review in 1992, after finishing second in the magazine's young-writers contest. In
1994, he moved to Washington to cover Congress, and in 1997, at the age of 29, he
became editor-in-chief of the magazine. He is also a political analyst for Fox News
and the author of Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years.
Author: Christiane Amanpour, Jon Lee Anderson, Katherine Boo, and Rich Lowry
Publisher: The New Yorker
Reader: Nicholas Lemann
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