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December 13: BIR Co-Directors Kira Kay and Jason Maloney discussed Liberia's post-conflict stability at a panel presentation hosted by the Minnesota International Center, held at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs.
The BIR's major news cycle on the country of Liberia aired on PBS NewsHour throughout the month of October, 2011:
On October 4th, the BIR's first report looked at the post conflict stability of Liberia and profiled soon-to-be Nobel Peace Prize Winner President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Besides the NewsHour broadcast, the story was placed on Time Magazine's homepage as a featured story.
On October 5th, the BIR's second report examined the high rates of PTSD and the need for mental Health in Liberia.
On October 31, the BIR's third report, looking at the promise and potential pitfalls of natural resource development in Liberia, wrapped up the BIR's Liberia series.
September, 2011: BIR Co-Director Jason Maloney joined the faculty of New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
July, 2011: The BIR is pleased to announce its support from the Compton Foundation has been renewed for the upcoming year.
July, 2011: The BIR has contributed footage to an important learning toolkit called "Before the Killing Begins: The Politics of Mass Violence", produced by the Stanley Foundation
June 2011: The BIR is pleased to announce that it has received a major reporting grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.
May, 2011: The BIR is pleased to announce that it has received the support of the Stanley Foundation and Humanity United to produce a series of reports covering Liberia's upcoming elections and post-conflict stability.
May, 2011: The BIR aired a two-part series of reports from Ukraine on PBS NewsHour.
-May 10: Ukraine’s political evolution since the Orange Revolution and allegations of democratic backsliding; and
-May 11: Ukraine’s struggle against HIV. Ukraine has Europe’s highest infection rate, more than France, Germany and the UK combined.
February, 2011: BIR Co-Directors Kira Kay and Jason Maloney spoke at American University's School of Communications about non-profit journalism and reporting international news.
February 3, 2011: the BIR’s report on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon aired on PBS NewsHour.
More recent news:
• The BIR’s Kira Kay was featured in the November issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly.
• November 11, 2010: the BIR’s second report on rare earth metals ran on the homepage of nytimes.com, narrated by New York Times Hong Kong Bureau Chief Keith Bradsher.
• November 10, 2010: the BIR screened its rare earths report at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs.
• November 8, 2010: the BIR screened excerpts from its Fragile States series, along with its Rwanda report, at the Harvard Club in New York.
• October 26, 2010: the BIR aired a report on the problem of breast cancer in Bosnia on PBS NewsHour, part of the Gates Foundation-funded Global Health series.
• October 1, 2010: the BIR returned to Bosnia to report on the country’s election, the first for young voters who grew up during or after the brutal ethnic war, for PBS NewsHour.
• August, 2010: The BIR produced extensive, multi-platform, multi-outlet coverage of the Rwandan presidential election, focusing on the African nation’s political and economic developments 16 years after the genocide. Anchor reports showed on PBS NewsHour and Time.com.
In addition:
-Read about the BIR’s experience reporting in Rwanda on the Huffington Post.
-Watch the BIR’s Kira Kay discuss her trip with PBS NewsHour’s Hari Sreenivasan.
-Watch the BIR’s Kira Kay on CNN discussing the Rwandan election.
-CNN uses BIR footage for its own coverage of Rwanda elections.
• June 14, 2010: the BIR aired its report on “The Global Race for Rare Earth Metals” on PBS NewsHour. Also, read our article Rare Earth Minerals - Rare Opportunity? on the Huffington Post.
• June 10, 2010: the BIR’s report on maternal mortality in Haiti showed at the Women Deliver conference in Washington, DC.
• May 5-6, 2010: the BIR screened its Fragile States reports at the Institute of World Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Buffett Center for Comparative and International Studies, Northwestern University. While in the area the BIR also appeared on WUWM Radio’s Lake Effect show and the Milwaukee PBS program “International Focus”.
• May 3, 2010: the BIR screened its Fragile States reports and fielded questions at the World Affairs Council of Northern California, San Francisco.
• April 5, 2010: the BIR has been recognized by the National Headliner Awards in the Documentary/News Series category for its "Fragile States" reporting.
• March 30, 2010: the BIR contributes footage to PBS Frontline's Haiti documentary, airing Tuesday March 30th on PBS.
• March 16, 2010: the BIR’s Jason Maloney spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations on reconstruction in Haiti.
• February 12, 2010: the BIR’s Kira Kay joined a panel at the Paley Center for the Media, entitled "The Future of International Reporting".
• February 2, 2010: the BIR screened its story on UN peacekeeping in Congo at the Georgetown Law Center’s Amnesty International Human Rights Film Festival.
• January 12, 2010: the BIR was filming its report on maternal health in Haiti when the earthquake struck. Our team was outside Port-au-Prince at the time and managed to get back safely. Our report aired on Now on PBS on January 29, 2010.
• Read comments by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the BIR's report from Haiti that aired the day before the earthquake.
• In late 2009 and early 2010, the BIR's Fragile States series featured reports from East Timor, Bosnia and Haiti on PBS NewsHour. For more reporting, please visit the Fragile States Gateway, hosted by our partners at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
• Read a Nieman Journalism lab article on NGOs and the News, featuring the BIR.
• Read an article in the Nov/Dec 2009 Dartmouth Alumni Magazine about Jason Maloney and the BIR.
• October 2009: the BIR attended a conference on "New Business Models in News", hosted by the Joan Shorenstein Center at Harvard.
• The BIR’s Kira Kay was one of the featured speakers at the 2009 Rotary International Peace Symposium in Birmingham, England.
• The BIR joined Stimson Center Analyst Victoria Holt for a screening and panel discussion about United Nations Peacekeeping at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC.
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