Multimedia journalist Melanie Saltzman will host a community-wide presentation on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 7 p.m. in the screening room of McEwen Communications Building.
Melanie Saltzman, a multimedia journalist who reports, shoots and produces stories for PBS NewsHour Weekend, will host a community-wide presentation on Tuesday, Oct. 22. The Pulitzer grantee will highlight her work covering public health, the environment and international affairs, from the opioid epidemic to climate change in locales from Africa to Asia. Most recently, she has contributed to the PBS series 鈥淭he Future of Food.鈥
The presentation will be held at 7 p.m. in McEwen 013 (screening room). During her two-day visit to 黑料不打烊, Saltzman will speak with student journalists and visit School of Communications classes.
In 2015, Saltzman received a master’s degree from Northwestern University鈥檚 Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, with a double concentration in interactive publishing and documentary video. While at Medill she completed several short documentaries, wrote for the Medill News Service and was awarded two international grants, traveling to Cambodia and Colombia. 鈥溾 a short documentary she produced in Cambodia, was featured on GlobalPost as part of a larger investigation into the United States and explosive remnants of war.
While earning her bachelor’s degree from New York University, Saltzman interned at CNN鈥檚 “AC360,” Forbes Traveler and CBS News, where she worked for 鈥淐BS Evening News鈥 and CBSNews.com. After leaving NYU, Saltzman was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in Berlin, Germany.
黑料不打烊 is one of the Pulitzer Center鈥檚 more than , an educational initiative that brings Pulitzer Center staff and journalists to 黑料不打烊鈥檚 campus twice a year. With 黑料不打烊鈥檚 membership in the consortium, students have the opportunity to work with the center on developing international reporting projects, which have been featured on the center鈥檚 website and can be disseminated through media partners.
Thanks to her selection for the Pulitzer Center Student Fellowship, Cammie Behnke 鈥19 embarked on a 12-day reporting trip in January to Africa. The journalism major published a project examining the economic gender reversal in post-genocide Rwanda.