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Fair Observer

Submitted by Erica Getto on Fri, 29 Mar 2013, 3:47pm

Late City Edition Producer Erica Getto sat down with Atul Singh, founder of up-and-coming news analysis website Fair Observer to discuss his personal and professional journey, his goals in launching Fair Observer, and shifting media models.

Christine Webb, Reconciliation Behavior

Submitted by Erica Getto on Fri, 29 Mar 2013, 4:16pm

In this month’s collaboration with The Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4), Professor Coleman (Director of Columbia University’s Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity) was joined in the studios by Christine Webb, a doctoral student in Psychology here at Columbia University. The pair discussed Webb’s work in South Africa studying reconciliation behavior in both humans and chimpanzees.

SWS Interview March 2013 (Organizers / Erica) - Part 1

Submitted by Erica Getto on Sun, 31 Mar 2013, 8:58pm
This show kicked off our coverage of on-campus group Student-Worker Solidarity’s advocating for Columbia University Faculty House workers. We brought two of the group’s student organizers – Jane and George – to the studios to discuss the group’s previous work in the community, its current role in the Faculty House workers’ contract negotiations, and whether their work marks the return of Columbia’s historic student activism. (Part 1)

SWS Interview March 2013 (Organizers / Erica) - Part 2

Submitted by Erica Getto on Mon, 1 Apr 2013, 12:26pm
This show kicked off our coverage of on-campus group Student-Worker Solidarity’s advocating for Columbia University Faculty House workers. We brought two of the group’s student organizers – Jane and George – to the studios to discuss the group’s previous work in the community, its current role in the Faculty House workers’ contract negotiations, and whether their work marks the return of Columbia’s historic student activism. (Part 2)

Political Comics

Submitted by Erica Getto on Thu, 30 May 2013, 2:58pm
Late City Edition Producer Erica Getto explored the history and impact of political comic books through a number of interviews and research findings. Interviewees included Karen Green, a Columbia University Librarian specializing in Ancient & Medieval History and Graphic Novel; comic seller John Verzel of Comic Heaven; graphic novelist and author of A Once Crowded Sky Tom King; Archie comic artist Fernando Ruiz; Vescell artist and author Enrique Carrion; and WWIII Illustrated and Spy vs. Spy’s Peter Kuper.

Joshua Fisher, Armed Conflict Forecasting

Submitted by Erica Getto on Thu, 30 May 2013, 3:25pm

In this month's collaboration with The Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4), a conversation between Professor Peter Coleman and Dr. Joshua Fisher. The duo discussed Dr. Fisher’s work developing forecast models for potential armed conflict as part of WKCR’s monthly collaborative series with Columbia’s Advanced Consortium on Conflict, Cooperation, and Complexity at the Earth Institute.

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