JULIE POUCHER HARBIN
Kabul,
Afghanistan
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JOURNALISM TRAINER AND EDITOR
Institute
for War and Peace Reporting
Kabul,
Afghanistan
July
(1 week) 2004, August (month) 2004, September (month) 2004, November (month)
2004
I have worked on a short-term contract
basis as a basic skills journalism trainer and editor for the Afghan Recovery
Report, published by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting
(can be seen at http://www.iwpr.net/), a
London-based on-line news agency that specializes in coverage of crisis and
post-crisis areas of Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Final
articles, which covered subjects as diverse as divorce, women police, refugees
in Pakistan, mental health, sanitation, soldier demobilization and disarmament,
northern commanders, and political
struggles, appeared both on the web site and in the local press.
Post
description:
intensive personalized training of semi-experienced Afghan journalists, novice
journalists, and journalism students through practical on-the-job training and
mentoring; working one-on-one with trainee journalists to shape story ideas,
decide on appropriate sources, and organize news and news analysis reporting for
news or news analysis articles.
STAFF
REPORTER
San
Diego, California
September
2003- June 2004
As a staff
writer for this weekly business paper, I covered the international trade, small
business and water issues beats. Among my regular items, I write a weekly column
on small business, a weekly small business profile, and a once-a-month column on
trade.
International
business topics included the Mexican maquiladora industry, the North American
Free Trade Agreement, the Department of Homeland Security, creation of a
U.S./Mexican border political action committee, the Mexican and Asian shrimp
trade, off-shoring, the San Diego Padres marketing efforts in Mexico, former
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s world view, Chile’s trade agenda,
and export opportunities with Asia and UK markets.
Water stories
included the finalization of the Quantification Settlement Agreement (Colorado
River water deal), and innovations and controversy with desalination.
I also wrote on
topics as diverse as the San Diego wildfires 2003, defense contracting and
subcontracting, opportunities for women in business, the growth of the recycling
industry, highway construction and funding issues, the RV business, employment
trends, franchising, the Mars Mission, yacht building, and Hispanic labor
demographics. I’ve also written stories about a variety of small and mid-sized
manufacturers.
I conducted
some high-profile interviews presented in Q & A format as well, including
with the U.S. Small Business Administration Administrator Hector Barreto, deputy
SBA administrator Melanie Sabelhaus, Head of the International Franchise
Association Don DeBolt, British Consul General New York and Director General
Trade and Investment USA Sir Thomas Harris, and U.S. Commerce Department senior
trade officials posted in South Korea and Vietnam.
FREELANCE
EDITOR
Oceanside,
California
Summer
2003
I
worked, as an editor via computer, with a Macedonian journalist on a report
about Macedonia’s education system for the Institute for War and Peace
Reporting, an on-line news agency based in London.
In addition I
executed an over 50-page proofreading assignment of a Bosnian author’s
manuscript about Malaysian Prime Minister Mahatir (written in English) for a
book published in Malaysia in the Fall of 2003.
POLITICAL
AND GENERAL ASSIGNMENTS CORRESPONDENT, JOURNALISM TRAINER AND EDITOR
Institute
for War and Peace Reporting
Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina
January
2001- April 2003
As a freelance
print journalist based in Sarajevo, I contributed political and investigative
reports to the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (http://www.iwpr.net/),
a London-based on-line news agency that, at the time, specialised in coverage of
crisis and post-crisis areas of Europe and Asia. I covered twice-weekly news briefings by the Office of the
High Representative, the UN Mission, NATO-SFOR, the OSCE, and the UNHCR, and
reported from all over Bosnia and Serbia.
I
also worked with local reporters in Bosnia, Croatia, Bulgaria, and Serbia on
writing and editing joint-investigative reports through on-the-job training and
collaboration that were published on the IWPR web site.
LINKS TO
SELECTED IWPR STORIES BELOW:
German Media Giant Dominates Balkans (BCR
No 419, 01-Apr-03)
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr3/bcr3_200304_419_5_eng.txt
Bosnia: UN Handover Causes Concern
www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr3/bcr3_200212_393_2_eng.txt
Bosnia: Brain Drain Gathers Pace
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr3/bcr3_200211_385_3_eng.txt
Bosnia Elections Special:
Religious Leaders Take a Back Seat
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr2/bcr2_20021002_4_eng.txt
Bosnia Elections Special: Women
Struggle to be Heard
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr2/bcr2_20021002_5_eng.txt
Bosnia: Sex Trade Claims Spread
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr2/bcr2_20020821_1_eng.txt
Bosnia: Multi-Ethnic Football Kicks Off
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr2/bcr2_20020705_3_eng.txt
Bosnia: Foreign-Funded Mosques Under
Scrutiny
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr2/bcr2_20020510_4_eng.txt
Bosnia: Families at War
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr/bcr_20010904_4_eng.txt
Bosnia Drugs Misery
www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr/bcr_20010725_3_eng.txt
Bosnia: Sarajevo Olympic Hopes
www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr/bcr_20010412_4_eng.txt
Bosnia:
Investigative Report on Human Trafficking
(co-written with local reporter)
*** cited in the
International Crisis Group’s May 2002 report on policing in Bosnia.
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr2/bcr2_specialinvestigation_bosniatrafficking_18042002.txt
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?development/workshops/training_bosnia_investigrep_april02.html
Bosnia: Trnovo Turns for the Better
www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr2/bcr2_20011121_4_eng.txt
Bosnia: The Fall of OBN (Investigative Report)
www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr/bcr_20010619_1_ir_eng.txt
Bosnia: Broadcasting Shakeup
www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr/bcr_20010829_5_eng.txt
Bosnia: Public Broadcasting Struggle (Investigative Report)
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr2/bcr2_20020215_1_ir_eng.txt
FREELANCE
WRITER
Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Fall
2000/Winter 2001
I contributed a
magazine piece, including photos, in the U.S.- based The
Wildlife Journal. The
story was about the return of Bosnian bears to a war ravaged region and their
conflicts with village returnees, hunters, and the state. (**copy of this report
available upon request).
COPY
EDITOR, JOURNALISM ADVISOR, REPORTER
ONASA
NEWS AGENCY
Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina
July
2000-March 2001
I was chief
copy editor, journalism advisor, and occasional reporter for the English
language service of the independent ONASA news agency in Sarajevo. Duties
included proofreading for style and content and advising translators and
journalists on grammar as well as Western European/American style journalism.
Feature stories I wrote for the agency included the following topics; innovative
inter-ethnic dog de-mining teams in Bosnia, the growth of Middle Eastern asylum
seekers in Bosnia, and Albanian,
Kosovar, and Roma refugee children coping with daily life in UNHCR (United
Nations High Commission for Refugees) refugee
camps in Bosnia.
EDITORIAL
ASSISTANT/RESEARCHER
NATIONAL
PUBLIC RADIO, "ALL THINGS CONSIDERED" PROGRAM
Washington, DC
February 2000-July 2000
I held the position of editorial assistant
to a senior producer of All Things Considered on the "The
Changing Face of America" project, and worked in this
capacity with a variety of regional beat reporters. Duties included researching
a variety of topics for monthly series documentaries, generating story and
interview ideas, and conducting extensive pre-interviews and booked interviews
both via ISDN and on-location. Stories generated included the changing Asian
demographic in Austin, Texas with a focus on Indians in the hi-tech sector;
teenage computer skills changing the family dynamic; two neighboring Florida
towns make very different choices—grow their suburb or preserve their rural
identity; GDC coils stop the threat
of stroke through non- invasive surgery; Texas ranchers bring nature tourists to
their ranches in order to preserve their way of life and profit from it; the
Gullah culture of the South Carolina sea islands face up to modern day change
and their new minority status. These stories aired from March 2000 through
September 2000.
Links to NPR Stories:
1.
High
tech and changing communities in Austin, Texas, which you can listen to here.
(Aired March 29, 2000)
2.
Computer-literate
kids in Vermont, which you can listen to here.
(Aired April 26, 2000)
3.
Development
in Broward County, Florida, which you can listen to here.
(Aired May 24, 2000)
4.
Carolina's
Coastal People, which you can listen to here.
(Aired August 30, 2000)
5.
The
Farmer With the Dell in Saline County, Missouri, which you can listen to
here.
(Aired September 27, 2000)
FREELANCE PRODUCER
Washington, DC
December 1999- January 2000
Wrote
TV scripts for FOX NEWS during “millennium weekend.”
ASSIGNMENT
MANAGER AND FIELD PRODUCER
NBC
NEWS WASHINGTON
Washington,
DC
August
1997--December 1999
Assignment
Manager Managed
the news assignment desk and the coverage of daily news. Supervised the
assignment of stories, editorial staff, and field crews. Coordinated microwave
and satellite feeds, including for the pool. Also developed story ideas,
interviewed sources and booked guests for TV appearances. Compiled visual
materials for air and worked with crews in producing live remotes and news
turnarounds. Developed a broad understanding of Washington; government,
Congress, agencies, organizations and related institutions. Maintained an
extensive rolodex.
Field
Producer Conducted interviews to
completion for air; including interviewing, verbating and selecting SOTs for
cutting producers and correspondents. Field produced press conferences,
newsmaker stakeouts, and all- day political events inside and outside of Capitol
Hill. Interviews and stake-outs have been as diverse as intelligence experts,
legal scholars, current and former independent counsels, senators and house
members, presidential advisors,
health professionals, current and former cabinet members, weapons specialists,
scientists and consultants. Field produced during President Clinton’s
fundraising/Chelsea college trip to California and the President’s trip to the
United Nations—September 1997.
VIDEOTAPE
COORDINATOR
WJLA
TV
Washington,
DC
January
1996-August 1997
Editing
Coordinator Responsibilities
included coordinating and assigning editing of the 5p and 6p weekday newscasts,
news cut-ins and special broadcasts, and logging tapes for air.
Videotape
Producer/Video Archivist Daily
tasks included researching stories and providing archive video for reporters and
editors, coordinating the recording of satellite and microwave feeds for live
shots, feeding breaking news stories to ABC Newsone and CNN, monitoring CNN and
ABC intake newsfeeds, and intake of White House, Congressional and Campaign
’96 feeds. Also responsible for year-round maintenance of the video library
and processing of file video requests for ABC Network News shows and independent
documentary programs.
Emmy
Judge Judged Emmys in 1997.
Judged documentaries from National Geographic and Discovery Channel, and
newsmagazine pieces, in the SOUND category.
ASSIGNMENT
MANAGER/ FIELD PRODUCER
NBC
NEWS MOSCOW
Moscow,
Russia
March
1994-November 1995
Assignment
Manager Responsibilities included
coordinating assignments for daily/nightly news coverage of Moscow, writing
nightly news summaries, logging five Russian newscasts per shift, monitoring
feeds from seven networks, booking satellite feeds, researching and pitching
stories. Managed the assignment desk during the ongoing Chechen War, and two
Russia/US summits, in addition to regular desk duties.
Field
Producer Conducted interviews and
covered Duma proceedings, and demonstrations and press conferences held by the
Communist party, Nationalist parties, and Democratic oriented parties.
Field produced Yeltsin events at the 50th anniversary of the
end of World War 2, and covered one of his many hospitalizations. Interviews
included (now former) Russian Foreign Minister Andrea Kozyrev, Nationalist
leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, former Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, and former
Finance Minister Boris Fyodorov. Experience also included serving as technical
producer during the 1994 Clinton/Yeltsin summit, before joining NBC full-time
two months later. Also responsible for rough cutting and logging video for
voice- overs for NIGHTLY NEWS, associate producing a variety of NIGHTLY NEWS
pieces, and assisting in production of international DATELINE stories.
Researcher Conducted
in-depth research on the international diamond industry, the Russian arctic and
Russian ecological disasters.
FREELANCE
FIXER
CRONKITE
AND WARD
Moscow,
Russia
Spring
1994
Spent a week setting up
shoots and arranging interviews for Walter Cronkite, Sandy Socolow and Gordon
Manning for a documentary on the Russian Space Program for Discovery Channel.
STAFF
CORRESPONDENT
THE MOSCOW TRIBUNE
Moscow,
Russia
February
1993-March 1994
Special
Investigations Reporter
Researched and wrote a series of reports on the Russian Far East—including
articles on mothers who care for their babies in prison, Russian mafia, and
substandard conditions in children’s hospitals. Researched and wrote articles
on economic development issues, Russian counter-intelligence and Russia’s
environmental crisis—including an interview with Yeltsin’s chief ecology
advisor Alexei Yablokov.
Crime
Beat Reporter Wrote a weekly
column tracking organized crime in Russia and Moscow based on exclusive
interviews of Security and Interior Ministry officials, press conferences and
police ride-alongs. Also wrote expanded articles on these topics, which were
later used for briefing US Embassy personnel.
Covered the October 1993 coup; focusing on
the state of emergency situation following the bombing of the Russian White
House and the Russian police and federal security response to that.
Political
Opposition Reporter Researched
and wrote profiles of prominent communist and nationalist figures running in
Russia’s first free Duma elections in December 1993. Covered their role in the
October 1993 coup.
Freelance
Contributor
Collaborated with a Russian journalist on a series of features and
profiles of Russian and foreign business people, artists and actors. (March
1994-November 1995)
INDEPENDENT
FILM SCRIPT SUPERVISOR
Washington,
DC
February
1996-July1996
Worked four nights a week performing script
supervisor duties for a small independently produced DC film, including
monitoring film shooting for video and audio accuracy and the proper dramatic
presentation. I did this in the evenings, while I was working at Channel 7.
ASSOCIATE
PRODUCER/DESK ASSISTANT
KSAT-TV
San
Antonio, TX
March
1990-August 1990
Associate
Producer As an intern during
college, produced and wrote human interest scripts. Researched and co-produced a
six-week series exposing corruption in the Texas School Board. Wrote voice-over
(VO) scripts for national and international news. Monitored wire services,
television broadcasts, and police radio. Compiled future planning log for assignment manager.
EDUCATION
Moscow
Institute of Foreign Languages, Russia 1993
MA
Coursework in Russian Language
Trinity
University, San Antonio, TX 1988-1992
BA
Communication
BA Russian Studies
Minor in
International Relations with a concentration in World Affairs
Minor in Political
Science
Leningrad
State University, St. Petersburg, Russia 1991-1992
Certificate
for completion of one academic year of Russian Language/Culture/Journalism
Instruction
SPECIAL
HONORS/MEMBERSHIPS
Recieved
award, along with a colleague from the San Diego Business Journal, for best
investigative newspaper report from the San Diego Society of Professional
Journalists, 2004.
Part
of a team of journalists from the San Diego Business Journal who recieved an
award for breaking news newspaper coverage of the San Diego wildfires, 2004.
Collegiate membership in International
Studies and Political Science Honor Societies.
Member AFTRA.
Member of Women in Film and Video, 1996.
SPECIAL
SKILLS:
Fluent in Russian. Proficient in Spanish.
Familiarity with Serbo-Croat.
Computer and Internet proficient.
REFERENCES
Upon Request.