Do you fantasize about working for NPR? The NEW YORK TIMES? THE ASSOCIATED PRESS? Your own new media site? Come hear Penn alumni speak about how they’ve done it, in real life! STEPHEN FRIED will host the conversation on Tuesday, September 17th at 5:00pm. Will you join us? CAREERS IN JOURNALISM & NEW MEDIA Hosted by Stephen Fried featuring Joel Siegel, Maria Popova, and Melody Joy Kramer Presented by the Povich Journalism Program, the Nora Magid Mentorship Prize, and the Daily Pennsylvanian Tuesday, Sep. 17th | 5:00pm | Arts Café Kelly Writers House | 3805 Locust Walk ______________________________ STEPHEN FRIED (C’79) is an award-winning author and magazine journalist, a lecturer at Penn’s Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, and an adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A former contributing editor at VANITY FAIR, GQ, and GLAMOUR; and the former editor-in-chief of PHILADELPHIA MAGAZINE, he has written five nonfiction books–most recently Appetite for America, one of the Wall Street Journal’s top ten books of the year–and is currently working on a biography of Dr. Benjamin Rush for Crown. MELODY KRAMER (C’06) graduated with a B.A. in English (Creative Writing). While at Penn, she wrote the humor column for the DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN, edited THE PUNCHBOWL, and tutored folks at the Kelly Writer’s House. She received the Kroc Fellowship at NPR and moved to Chicago to direct and produce WAIT WAIT DON’T TELL ME, NPR’s humor show. Three years later, she moved back to Philly to work as a producer and writer at WHYY’s FRESH AIR with Terry Gross. She will soon announce a new job! Her email is melodykramer@gmail. Feel free to get in touch with her! MARIA POPOVA (C’07) is the founder and editor of BRAIN PICKINGS, an inventory of cross-disciplinary interestingness covering art, science, history, philosophy, design, and more. She has written for WIRED UK, THE ATLANTIC, NIEMAN JOURNALISM LAB, THE NEW YORK TIMES, SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE and DESIGN OBSERVER, among others, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow. She is on Twitter as @brainpicker. JOEL SIEGEL (C’79) began his journalism career at the RED BANK (N.J.) DAILY REGISTER, covering cops, courts, and Bruce Springsteen sightings. He wrote his first story on an electric typewriter. He has worked for THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, where he worked for 15 years, mostly as the City Hall bureau chief and as the senior political correspondent. He covered President Clinton’s impeachment, the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign. In 2003, he joined ABC NEWS as a writer for Peter Jennings, and later for Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer, on ABC’s “World News.” He also worked as a head writer and a producer for “Weekend World News.” Joel returned to the DAILY NEWS last year as the managing editor for politics.
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