in prison event

Keri Blakinger ’14 returned to campus in April as a Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist.  Blakinger is a formerly incarcerated Cornell alumna and investigative journalist whose work has been nominated for both a Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award. Despite her busy speaking schedule at Cornell, she took an afternoon off to speak with our students at Auburn Correctional…

In response to requests from our students in Auburn’s Writer’s Workshop for more opportunities to publish their work more broadly, we invited David Nutt, a staff writer focused on physical sciences, engineering, arts and humanities, at the Cornell Chronicle to talk with the group about journalistic writing.  He discussed the fundamentals of journalism and how it differs…