Jimmie Briggs, journalist, author and founder of the Man Up Campaign, discusses his work and career; Ann Jones, the author of “Women Who Kill,” talks about the history of the issue now known as "intimate partner violence"; Emily Rothman, associate professor of public health at Boston University, introduces a public health journalism; and Esta Soler, president of Futures Without Violence, talks about media coverage and activism. Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, introduces and moderates a discussion.
This video is from a two-day workshop held at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in October, 2011, made possible by generous funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: "Out of the Shadows: Reporting on Intimate Partner Violence."
Jimmie Briggs
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Jimmie Briggs is the co-founder and executive director of the Man Up Campaign, a global campaign to activate youth to stop violence against women and girls. He is also an award-winning journalist, author and lecturer.
Ann Jones
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Ann Jones is an authority on violence against women. She is a journalist, photographer, activist, and author of eight books of nonfiction, including the seminal work, Women Who Kill.
Emily F. Rothman, Sc.D.
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Emily F. Rothman is an associate professor in the Department of Community Health and a visiting scientist at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. She earned her doctorate from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2004, where her dissertation research focused on correlates of intimate partner violence perpetration, and where she was awarded the Martha May Eliot fellowship in Maternal and Child Health.
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