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News September 16, 2022

Video: ‘How I Did It’ – The Story Behind The New York Times’ ‘Civilian Casualty Files’

On September 13, the Overseas Press Club of America and the Columbia Journalism School’s Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism hosted a discussion about The New York Times’ “Civilian Casualty Files,” which received the 2022 International Reporting Prize in May.

Named contributor Azmat Khan (who holds the Journalism School’s Patti Cadby Birch assistant professorship in addition to serving as the Center’s director) and project editor Luke Mitchell participated in the panel — which was moderated by Pulitzer Prize Board member Ginger Thompson — at the Journalism School’s Lecture Hall.

The chief of correspondents at ProPublica, Thompson also is a member of the OPC’s Board of Governors alongside Professor Khan and Pulitzer Prize Administrator Marjorie Miller.

Watch the uncut recording of the discussion below. A recap and a playlist of selected clips are available on the OPC’s website. Additionally, Professor Khan’s resources page (including an abbreviated, redacted sample of her Conflict Reporting course syllabus and an eight-page guide for filing federal Freedom of Information Act requests) is available here.

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