This project expands upon an existing Images & Voices of Hope (IVOH) model of conversation that employs Appreciative Inquiry (AI), a strength-based strategic planning and change model. [http://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu]. IVOH has applied the theory and method of Appreciative Inquiry to conversations we have held around the world for ten years. With the AIM project we intend to extend our application of Appreciative Inquiry to develop a new model of reporting. We plan to train facilitators to hold subsequent conversations about the new model of reporting with media makers.
The AIM Proposal will undertake two pilot projects focusing on media makers in Johannesburg, South Africa and Washington DC. These projects will work with our partners in those cities to hold the conversations, to develop a model of reporting that uses Appreciative Inquiry for strength-based storytelling, and to create collateral/training materials. The project will establish Internet support and information sharing through the interactive IVOH website, as well as training facilitators to guide continuing conversations.
Engaging influential media makers in this project has great potential for creating positive change, given the role media makers have in making decisions that affect the sense of possibility in the lives of huge numbers of people.
New communication technologies have allowed the media to reach more people than ever before and more quickly. And that has given them increased power to shape the way whole cultures respond to events and ideas. Our interest is in leveraging this extended reach for the cultivation of new and constructive stories of and for humanity.
Our goal is to bring new awareness and a grounded method and tool to those who work in today’s varied media – in order to affect a positive change in reporting stories.
IVOH is well poised to carry out this project. Our ten-year history engaging with media makers worldwide, using AI to create conversations around personal mission and social impact, makes us confident that we can be effective in creating and presenting a new model of reporting to bring about positive social change.
Our experience over the past three years in working with media thought leaders in a funded inquiry into personal mission and social impact, has also contributed to our knowledge of current reporting trends and concerns. We have a wide network of contacts among media makers and a large pool of interested and committed volunteers to call upon to ensure the success of this project.
IVOH has many partners and volunteers interested in expanding conversations with media makers. In the two cities we will focus on, our partners will be:
South Africa:
Yvonne Kgame, director of the Content Hub at South African Broadcast Corporation
Ryland Fisher, former publisher of the Cape Times, author of the books Race and Making the Media Work for You. Director of the Cape Town Festival, which grew out of a ten-part newspaper series, “One City Many Voices”.
Pratiba Daya, the Brahma Kumaris director of IVOH in Johannesburg. [The Brahma Kumaris was one of three original founding partners of IVOH and has been the major force in our global expansion. www.bkwsu.org ]
Washington DC:
*Roberta Baskin
Roberta Baskin has recently accepted a newly created position at the Inspector General's office in Health and Human Services as Senior Communications Advisor. The opportunity developed following a series of investigative reports she did on a chain of dental clinics that exposed small children to unnecessary and painful treatments in a scheme to profit from Medicaid. Currently, she's working on a Frontline investigation about for-profit education to air on PBS next year.
Roberta has won more than 75 journalism prizes, including three Alfred I.duPont-Columbia University Journalism Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the Radio-Television News Directors Edward R. Murrow Award, and numerous Emmys. But her proudest achievements are righting wrongs, changing laws, and transforming the way companies do business.
Roberta began her career as an investigative reporter in Chicago and Washington D.C. During her distinguished journalism career, Baskin has served as the Executive Director of the Center for Public Integrity, the senior Washington correspondent for "NOW with Bill Moyers," senior investigative producer for the ABC News magazine 20/20, chief investigative correspondent for the CBS News magazine 48 Hours, and contributed special reports to the CBS Evening News.
*Margaret Engel
Margaret Engel is the director of the Alicia Patterson Journalism Foundation, which supports investigative journalists and photojournalists worldwide. She was the managing editor of the Newseum, the world's only interactive museum of news, and currently serves on the Fund for Investigative Journalism, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism awards, and the Helen Hayes Awards board. Engel is a former reporter for The Washington Post, Des Moines Register, and Lorain (OH) Journal and was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University. She is a former Washington columnist for Glamour and has written for Esquire, Air & Space, the Los Angeles Times, Saveur and Ladies Home Journal. Her work has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize four times.
This spring, a play she co-authored with her twin sister Allison entitled, Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-ass Wit of Molly Ivins opens in Philadelphia starring Kathleen Turner. She also co-authored with Allison three editions of Food Finds: America's Best Local Foods and the People Who Produce Them, a compendium of regional food products that was published by HarperCollins. She and Allison appeared on the Today Show, Larry King, National Public Radio and The Kitchen Sisters, talking about the superlative small food companies. They produce a television show (Food Finds) based on their book, which currently is in its seventh season on The Food Network. Engel has helped produce a history of groundbreaking newspaper editorials for the National Geographic Press as well as books for the New Yorker's Cartoon Bank.
Engel and her husband, Bruce Adams, traveled more than 60,000 miles together to write three other guidebooks about baseball in America for Fodor's/Random House. They also conducted a Smithsonian Institution study tour of baseball's minor leagues in North Carolina.
*Kathleen Pearce
Kathleen Pearce is a veteran filmmaker and journalist who has spent 25 years producing and directing non-fiction films for national and international television.
Her first independent feature length documentary, Fast Lane Summer, is now in both theatrical and DVD distribution. Pearce is currently in production on Thin Ice, which chronicles the effects of climate change on the Arctic, and a comedy documentary about the legendary comedy writer/director/producer Leonard Stern.
Pearce served as a supervising producer for the Turner Broadcasting series of one-hour films entitled Wildlife Adventures that aired on TBS for five years and was also seen on Animal Planet and in international syndication. She produced, directed and wrote Wildlife Legacy for the series which profiles the work of artists who have devoted their careers to conservation.
Pearce's other producer/director/writer credits include an ABC investigation of the illegal trade in endangered species entitled Tiger Trade, which won Hollywood's Environmental Media Award and a National Emmy nomination, a special on the Library of Congress, hosted by Steve Allen, for American Movie Classics' Film Preservation Festival, which was honored with cable's ACE Award, and a two hour documentary for Turner Originals, The World of Audubon 10th Anniversary Special hosted by Lauren Hutton and Richard Dean Anderson. Pearce served as a producer for Ted Koppel for specials that aired on ABC and PBS, and for numerous other Nightline reports. She received a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to develop the story of Maxwell Perkins, the legendary Scribner literary editor, for the PBS series American Masters.
Pearce has traveled around the world producing films in India, Africa, Indonesia,Taiwan, and Alaska. Her programs have won more than two-dozen awards, including Emmys, the George Foster Peabody Award, and the Dupont-Columbia Award for Investigative Reporting. She has a B.Sc. with honors in Journalism, and now serves on the advisory board of Women in Film and Video, Washington,D.C.
*Maura Casey
Maura Casey has been a member of four editorial boards. She was the editorial page editor for the Lawrence (Mass.) Eagle Tribune for five years before accepting a job as associate editorial page editor for The Day of New London, Conn. After 17 years at The Day, The New York Times offered her a job as an editorial writer. Casey was a member of the Times’ editorial board from 2006 to 2009. She now serves as a member of the editorial board of the Hartford (Conn.) Courant, where she contributes columns and editorials on a part-time basis when not running her writing/editing firm, CaseyInk, LLC.
Casey has won more than 35 journalism awards. She contributed to a Pulitzer Prize awarded to the staff of the Eagle-Tribune and won Scripps-Howard’s Walker Stone Award. Casey also won the Horace Greeley Award and the Steve Collins award, the highest awards for public service in New England journalism and Connecticut journalism, respectively. She holds a BA, magna cum laude, from Buffalo State College and an MA in Journalism and Public Affairs from American University.
*David Cooperrider, a member of the Images & Voices of Hope board of directors, the creator of AI, and professor of Organizational Behavior at CWRU, will consult with us on this project.
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Please explain why your idea/project, is suited/perfect to using... 'media' ...to bring about A BETTER "WORLD"...the entire planet...? Thank you~! a.
This project expands upon an existing Images & Voices of Hope (IVOH) model of conversation that employs Appreciative Inquiry (AI), a strength-based strategic planning and change model. [http://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu]. IVOH has applied the theory and method of Appreciative Inquiry to conversations we have held around the world for ten years. With the AIM project we intend to extend our application of Appreciative Inquiry to develop a new model of reporting. We plan to train facilitators to hold subsequent conversations about the new model of reporting with media makers.
The AIM Proposal will undertake two pilot projects focusing on media makers in Johannesburg, South Africa and Washington DC. These projects will work with our partners in those cities to hold the conversations, to develop a model of reporting that uses Appreciative Inquiry for strength-based storytelling, and to create collateral/training materials. The project will establish Internet support and information sharing through the interactive IVOH website, as well as training facilitators to guide continuing conversations.
Engaging influential media makers in this project has great potential for creating positive change, given the role media makers have in making decisions that affect the sense of possibility in the lives of huge numbers of people.
New communication technologies have allowed the media to reach more people than ever before and more quickly. And that has given them increased power to shape the way whole cultures respond to events and ideas. Our interest is in leveraging this extended reach for the cultivation of new and constructive stories of and for humanity.
Our goal is to bring new awareness and a grounded method and tool to those who work in today’s varied media – in order to affect a positive change in reporting stories.
IVOH is well poised to carry out this project. Our ten-year history engaging with media makers worldwide, using AI to create conversations around personal mission and social impact, makes us confident that we can be effective in creating and presenting a new model of reporting to bring about positive social change.
Our experience over the past three years in working with media thought leaders in a funded inquiry into personal mission and social impact, has also contributed to our knowledge of current reporting trends and concerns. We have a wide network of contacts among media makers and a large pool of interested and committed volunteers to call upon to ensure the success of this project.
IVOH has many partners and volunteers interested in expanding conversations with media makers. In the two cities we will focus on, our partners will be:
South Africa:
Yvonne Kgame, director of the Content Hub at South African Broadcast Corporation
Ryland Fisher, former publisher of the Cape Times, author of the books Race and Making the Media Work for You. Director of the Cape Town Festival, which grew out of a ten-part newspaper series, “One City Many Voices”.
Pratiba Daya, the Brahma Kumaris director of IVOH in Johannesburg. [The Brahma Kumaris was one of three original founding partners of IVOH and has been the major force in our global expansion. www.bkwsu.org ]
Washington DC:
*Roberta Baskin
Roberta Baskin has recently accepted a newly created position at the Inspector General's office in Health and Human Services as Senior Communications Advisor. The opportunity developed following a series of investigative reports she did on a chain of dental clinics that exposed small children to unnecessary and painful treatments in a scheme to profit from Medicaid. Currently, she's working on a Frontline investigation about for-profit education to air on PBS next year.
Roberta has won more than 75 journalism prizes, including three Alfred I.duPont-Columbia University Journalism Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the Radio-Television News Directors Edward R. Murrow Award, and numerous Emmys. But her proudest achievements are righting wrongs, changing laws, and transforming the way companies do business.
Roberta began her career as an investigative reporter in Chicago and Washington D.C. During her distinguished journalism career, Baskin has served as the Executive Director of the Center for Public Integrity, the senior Washington correspondent for "NOW with Bill Moyers," senior investigative producer for the ABC News magazine 20/20, chief investigative correspondent for the CBS News magazine 48 Hours, and contributed special reports to the CBS Evening News.
*Margaret Engel
Margaret Engel is the director of the Alicia Patterson Journalism Foundation, which supports investigative journalists and photojournalists worldwide. She was the managing editor of the Newseum, the world's only interactive museum of news, and currently serves on the Fund for Investigative Journalism, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism awards, and the Helen Hayes Awards board. Engel is a former reporter for The Washington Post, Des Moines Register, and Lorain (OH) Journal and was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University. She is a former Washington columnist for Glamour and has written for Esquire, Air & Space, the Los Angeles Times, Saveur and Ladies Home Journal. Her work has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize four times.
This spring, a play she co-authored with her twin sister Allison entitled, Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-ass Wit of Molly Ivins opens in Philadelphia starring Kathleen Turner. She also co-authored with Allison three editions of Food Finds: America's Best Local Foods and the People Who Produce Them, a compendium of regional food products that was published by HarperCollins. She and Allison appeared on the Today Show, Larry King, National Public Radio and The Kitchen Sisters, talking about the superlative small food companies. They produce a television show (Food Finds) based on their book, which currently is in its seventh season on The Food Network. Engel has helped produce a history of groundbreaking newspaper editorials for the National Geographic Press as well as books for the New Yorker's Cartoon Bank.
Engel and her husband, Bruce Adams, traveled more than 60,000 miles together to write three other guidebooks about baseball in America for Fodor's/Random House. They also conducted a Smithsonian Institution study tour of baseball's minor leagues in North Carolina.
*Kathleen Pearce
Kathleen Pearce is a veteran filmmaker and journalist who has spent 25 years producing and directing non-fiction films for national and international television.
Her first independent feature length documentary, Fast Lane Summer, is now in both theatrical and DVD distribution. Pearce is currently in production on Thin Ice, which chronicles the effects of climate change on the Arctic, and a comedy documentary about the legendary comedy writer/director/producer Leonard Stern.
Pearce served as a supervising producer for the Turner Broadcasting series of one-hour films entitled Wildlife Adventures that aired on TBS for five years and was also seen on Animal Planet and in international syndication. She produced, directed and wrote Wildlife Legacy for the series which profiles the work of artists who have devoted their careers to conservation.
Pearce's other producer/director/writer credits include an ABC investigation of the illegal trade in endangered species entitled Tiger Trade, which won Hollywood's Environmental Media Award and a National Emmy nomination, a special on the Library of Congress, hosted by Steve Allen, for American Movie Classics' Film Preservation Festival, which was honored with cable's ACE Award, and a two hour documentary for Turner Originals, The World of Audubon 10th Anniversary Special hosted by Lauren Hutton and Richard Dean Anderson. Pearce served as a producer for Ted Koppel for specials that aired on ABC and PBS, and for numerous other Nightline reports. She received a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to develop the story of Maxwell Perkins, the legendary Scribner literary editor, for the PBS series American Masters.
Pearce has traveled around the world producing films in India, Africa, Indonesia,Taiwan, and Alaska. Her programs have won more than two-dozen awards, including Emmys, the George Foster Peabody Award, and the Dupont-Columbia Award for Investigative Reporting. She has a B.Sc. with honors in Journalism, and now serves on the advisory board of Women in Film and Video, Washington,D.C.
*Maura Casey
Maura Casey has been a member of four editorial boards. She was the editorial page editor for the Lawrence (Mass.) Eagle Tribune for five years before accepting a job as associate editorial page editor for The Day of New London, Conn. After 17 years at The Day, The New York Times offered her a job as an editorial writer. Casey was a member of the Times’ editorial board from 2006 to 2009. She now serves as a member of the editorial board of the Hartford (Conn.) Courant, where she contributes columns and editorials on a part-time basis when not running her writing/editing firm, CaseyInk, LLC.
Casey has won more than 35 journalism awards. She contributed to a Pulitzer Prize awarded to the staff of the Eagle-Tribune and won Scripps-Howard’s Walker Stone Award. Casey also won the Horace Greeley Award and the Steve Collins award, the highest awards for public service in New England journalism and Connecticut journalism, respectively. She holds a BA, magna cum laude, from Buffalo State College and an MA in Journalism and Public Affairs from American University.
*David Cooperrider, a member of the Images & Voices of Hope board of directors, the creator of AI, and professor of Organizational Behavior at CWRU, will consult with us on this project.
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