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Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows Program - Highlighted Visiting Fellows
 CALLIE
CROSSLEY
Television and Radio Commentator; Documentary and TV News Producer
Callie Crossley is a media commentator and public speaker. She
frequently appears on National Public Radio, CNN, and C-SPAN. She appears
weekly on WGBH-TV’s “Beat the Press,” a media criticism
program which examines local and national media coverage. Ms. Crossley
was a producer for Eyes On the Prize: America’s Civil Rights
Years, the critically acclaimed documentary series, which earned
her an Oscar nomination and major film and journalism awards, including
the Gold Baton of the DuPont-Columbia Award, considered the Pulitzer Prize
of broadcast journalism. As a network television producer, Crossley also
earned top awards for her health/medical stories produced for ABC News’
20/20. Crossley balances her commentary and speaking schedule
with her work as Program Manager for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism
at Harvard, designing and directing the foundation’s seminar series.
Through her company, CrossChannels, she consults to both journalism projects
and documentary filmmakers and leads media coaching workshops. Ms. Crossley
has been both a Nieman Fellow and an Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard
University. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, and holds an honorary
Doctor of Arts degree from Pine Manor College.
Topics: Women and leadership; current events; civil rights
history; career building; race and media; ethics and diversity in journalism
and documentary filmmaking.
 DAVID
K. SHIPLER
Author; former Foreign Correspondent, The New York Times
As a correspondent for The New York Times, David
Shipler covered South Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, and Thailand between
1973 and 1975. He spent four years in Russia as Moscow Bureau Chief and
documented his experience in the best-selling book, Russia: Broken
Idols, Solemn Dreams, which won the Overseas Press Club Award. From
1979 to 1984, he served as Bureau Chief of The New York Times
in Jerusalem and shared the 1983 George Polk Award for coverage of the
Lebanon War. Mr. Shipler spent a year as a visiting scholar at the Brookings
Institution in Washington, DC, writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning Arab
and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. Mr. Shipler served as
Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in the Washington Bureau of The New
York Times until 1988. As a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace from 1988-90, he wrote on transitions to democracy
in Russia and Eastern Europe for The New Yorker and other publications.
In 1997, he published A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in
America. He has taught at Princeton University, American University,
and Dartmouth College. His most recent book is The Working Poor: Invisible
in America.
Topics: Black-white relations in the U.S.; U.S. foreign
policy in the Middle East; Israeli-Palestinian conflict, race relations,
and poverty; Russia; Vietnam; civil liberties; journalism.
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