| April
2005
Volume 2, Edition 1
As we begin
our fourth year we would like to share with you this update on recent
developments at the Daniel Pearl Foundation. We are grateful to the many
donors, volunteers and partner organizations who support us in our mission of
promoting cross-cultural understanding, combating cultural and religious
hatred, and encouraging responsible and creative journalism. We thank you for
your interest in our work.
Judea Pearl, President
Daniel Pearl Foundation
DPF
is a non-profit, charitable organization
which relies on your contributions for
funding. To lend your support please visit
Ways
to Help on our website www.danielpearl.org
Contents
>
Teens around the world become PEARL news
reporters
> Harmony for Humanity - October 1-10,
2005 – Registration now open
> 2005 Daniel Pearl Fellows at Los
Angeles Times & Wall Street Journal
> Interfaith Dialogue continues in
Canada, California and online
> New CD "Stories from My Favorite
Planet"; words by Daniel Pearl, music
by Russell Steinberg
> Other News
Global
Youth News Service, Inspired by Daniel
Pearl, Seeks Aspiring Reporters
Teenagers
around the world who are proficient in English and have access to the World
Wide Web can participate at no cost in the new internet-based international
student-run news service, the PEARL World Youth News. The online PEARL Reporter Certification Program takes students from
writing leads to conducting interviews and teaches about reporting techniques
and journalism ethics. Certification as a PEARL reporter enables students to do
their own reporting on issues facing them as members of the global community
and gain valuable skills in journalism. These articles will be available for
publication in student newspapers all over the globe.
Seven
schools have volunteered to act as editors for the news service - the Habib
Girls’ School and Aga Khan School in Pakistan (co-News Editors), Valley
International School in Lebanon (Features Editor), Gymnasium Parvoz in
Uzbekistan (Music & Performing Arts Editor), Dr. Beheshti Boys High School
and Ardeshiri Girls’ High School in Iran (co-Entertainment Editors), and the
Spokane Valley High School in Washington (Managing Editor).
This
initiative is a joint project between the DPF and the International Education
and Resource Network (iEARN). We are grateful to the Ethics & Excellence in
Journalism Foundation, the Skirball Foundation, the New York Times Foundation
and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism for their support for this
initiative. For more information
please contact PEARL coordinator Anindita Dutta Roy at [email protected].
Harmony
for Humanity. Daniel Pearl Music Days
- October 1-10, 2005
Online
registration is now open for Daniel Pearl Music
Days 2005 from October 1-10. Join us in our drive to unite
people through music. There are new opportunities to share music
and messages on the Harmony for Humanity E-Stage. Last October, over 400
Daniel Pearl Music Day events in 39 countries, took place with hundreds of
thousands of participants harnessing the power of music to inspire hope and
brotherhood across national, ethnic and religious divisions. With your
help we will do it again this year. Please visit www.danielpearl.org/music-days
or contact Music Days coordinator Andrea Hargrave at [email protected]
for more information.
Daniel
Pearl Fellows at Los Angeles Times &
The Wall Street Journal
We welcome Daniel Pearl Fellows Walid Al-Saqaf, editor-in-chief
of The Yemen Times and Ammara Durrani, assistant editor of The News
International in Karachi, Pakistan. Ms. Durrani is in Los Angeles working for
Danny’s hometown newspaper the Los Angeles Times and Mr. Al-Saqaf is working
with the Washington, DC bureau of the Wall Street Journal, where Danny worked;
both journalists will be in the U.S. through the summer. This program is run
in partnership with Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships.
Interfaith
Dialogue
The Daniel Pearl Dialogue for Muslim-Jewish
Understanding, featuring
Akbar Ahmed and Judea Pearl, was at Duke University in February and continues
in Ottawa, Toronto and at UC Irvine in May. Professors Ahmed and Pearl also are discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict online via Naseeb Vibes a literary site for Muslims
by Muslims. Naseeb members have added their voices through the TalkBack
section. For more information, please visit our Calendar
of Events page.
New CD “Stories from My Favorite Planet”
We are delighted to announce the release
of the CD Stories
from My Favorite Planet. It is available
free to donors of $100 or more. Composed
for the Daniel Pearl Foundation and
premiered as part of the second annual
Daniel Pearl Music Day with composer Russell
Steinberg on piano, Los Angeles Philharmonic
violinist Mitchell Newman, and actor Josh
Coxx, reader, this piece intertwines music
with readings of Danny's articles
selected from At
Home in the World into a musical
tapestry that portrays his humor and compassion.
Please visit www.danielpearl.org for more information.
Other
News
Daniel Pearl Award - The school of journalism of leading French university Sciences
Po in Paris is inaugurating a new Daniel
Pearl Award to be presented annually to
a journalism student whose writing best
reflects the spirit and excellence of
Daniel Pearl’s reporting by probing beneath
the surface of an issue in the news and
treating it with understanding and, if
appropriate, a humorous eye. The Award
will be presented in June.
Press Under Fire Panel - On March 2, 2005 Daniel Pearl Foundation Honorary Board
member Christiane Amanpour of CNN moderated
a Press Under Fire discussion at the London
School of Economics marking the 3rd anniversary
of Danny’s death. The panel, organized
by DPF Advisory Board member Kenneth Neil
Cukier of The Economist and Dalit Herdoon,
included Kate Clark and Ibrahim Helal
of BBC; Gideon Lichfield of The Economist,
and Steve Stecklow of The Wall Street
Journal.
Judea and Ruth Pearl Peacemaker Award Recipients - On March 9, 2005 Judea and Ruth
Pearl were honored with the National Conflict Resolution Center’s 17th Annual Peacemaker
Awards in San Diego,
CA for promoting cross-cultural understanding.
The Daniel Pearl Foundation is NCRC's
First Annual National Recipient.
Daniel
Pearl Foundation Contacts
Newsletter
feedback: [email protected]
General
inquiries/comments: [email protected]
Media inquiries: Rochon Perry of Black
Ink at [email protected]
Music Days Inquiries: [email protected]
Visit us online at www.danielpearl.org
Daniel
Pearl Foundation
16161
Ventura Boulevard, #671
Encino,
California 91436
USA
The Daniel Pearl Foundation is a tax-exempt
501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Tax-ID 03-0393564. To view the list
of our top donors and make a contribution
please visit Ways
to Help
Subscribe/Unsubscribe
To be placed on our e-mailing list, please send an e-mail with “subscribe newsletter” in the subject line to [email protected].
To no longer receive this e-newsletter, please send an e-mail with “unsubscribe” in the subject line to [email protected]
Thank you.
|
|
