Betsy West, a renowned video journalist and filmmaker, will talk about the making of her documentary “RBG,” a film about about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, on Tuesday, Nov. 13 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.
When she was growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, journalist and author April Ryan often gathered with her family to hear popular CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite broadcast the news. When he did, he presented the facts — relaying the “five W’s” of who, what,...
One hundred years ago, on November 11 — “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” — the Allies and Germany signed an armistice, ending their four-year war, a devastating conflict that had claimed 16 million lives and left more than 20...
Sonia Fritz, the director of “America,” will speak on campus about the after-effects of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico. She will participate in a series of talks on Thursday, Nov. 8, as a Poynter Fellow. Her visit will include the screening and discussion...
Yale and Columbia economists are building a massive dataset to better understand the role immigrants played in transforming the United States from its rural origins into a global economic power.
The researchers will merge individual level data from the...
This commentary by Maurice Samuels, the Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French and director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, was published online in Le Monde on Oct. 31. Read the original commentary in French.
Until last weekend, many...