About the Goldfarb Center
The Goldfarb Center brings faculty and students together with local, state, national, and international leaders to explore creative, interdisciplinary approaches to the complex challenges facing today's world.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy Journalism and News Literacy Initiatives
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Lovejoy Journalism Award 2009 Recipient: Paul Salopek
Reporting from Darfur in 2006, reporter Paul Salopek was imprisoned for five weeks. He endured beatings and brutal jail conditions but declined offers of freedom until he knew his Chadian driver and Sudanese translator would also be freed. A journalist who has reported from more than 50 countries in the developing world and more than 20 conflict zones, Salopek received the 2009 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009. About the Lovejoy Award
Honoring courage and excellence in journalism since 1952
The Story of Lovejoy
America's First Martyr to Freedom of the Press
 Elijah Parish Lovejoy was born Nov. 9, 1802, in Albion, Maine, and graduated from Waterville College (now Colby) in 1826. On Nov. 7, 1837, in Alton, Ill., Lovejoy, a newspaper editor, became America's first martyr to the freedom of the press when a pro-slavery mob set fire to the building that housed his press. Killed as he attempted to extinguish the blaze, he was buried on Nov. 9, his 35th birthday. The Goldfarb Center brings faculty and students together with local, state, national, and international leaders to explore creative, interdisciplinary approaches to the complex challenges facing today's world.Knight Foundation
 Goldfarb Center and Lovejoy news literacy programs are made possible, in part, by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Lovejoy Journalists in Residence
David ShribmanExecutive Editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette March 16 - March 20, 2009
Public Lecture:
News Literacy in the Digial Age March 15, 2009, 7:00 PM Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building
Lovejoy Journalism Interns
Anna Kelemen '10Internship: 2009 at Cape Cod Times
Anna Kelemen is currently a junior at Colby studying English and Psychology. She came to the Hill from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she attended Greenhills School. Greenhills is a small school that, much like Colby, placed a great deal of emphasis on c...
Read more about Anna Kelemen Undergraduate News Literacy Course
In January 2009, David Offer led students on an exploration of how news-gathering techniques differ among
different media, with an emphasis on how to interpret the fairness and reliability of the news.
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