David Halberstam, 1934-2007

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Fall 2003 Jefferson Fellowships

Fall 2003 Jefferson Fellowships

October 5, 2003 - November 1, 2003

The Jefferson Fellowships, founded by the East-West Center in 1967, promote better public understanding of the United States and Asia and Pacific through a program of dialogue, study and travel for mid- and senior-level print and broadcast journalists. The Jefferson Fellowships are supported by a grant from The Freeman Foundation.

During seminars and field study the journalists selected from the United States and Asia Pacific, learn from each other, as well as from scholars, business and labor leaders, government policy-makers, political and civic leaders, lobbyists and public interest groups, social activists, cultural analysts, media experts and others whom they meet and interview during the course of the program.

The program begins at the East-West Center with a week of lectures and discussions on key regional issues led by East-West Center, University of Hawai‘i and other experts from the Honolulu community. The Fellows then undertake field study in Asia and the United States mainland to further their understanding of the issues. More information>>>

The Fall 2003 Jefferson Fellows are:

Bangladesh: Monjurul Ahsan BULBUL, Chief News Editor for News and Current Affairs, Eushey Television, Dhaka

China: LI Xiaoping, Senior Producer and Program Director, China Central Television, Beijing

Fiji: Rita Kumari NARAYAN, Senior Journalist, Fiji Broadcasting Corporation Ltd., Suva

India: Syed Ali MUJTABA, Assistant News Editor, Sun Television, Chennai

Indonesia: Lely Triana DJUHARI, Reporter, Associated Press, Jakarta

Japan: ISOBE Mayo, National News Editor, Herald Tribune-Asahi, Tokyo

Pakistan: Absar Alam HAIDER, Chief Reporter, The Nation, Islamabad

Philippines: Carlos Hidalgo CONDE, Reporter and Copy Editor, Mindanews, Davao City, Mindanao

Sri Lanka: Susil Kumar KINDELPITIYA, Editor-in-Chief for News and Current Affairs, Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corp., Colombo

Taiwan: LIU Yung-hsiang, Senior Reporter, China Times, Taipei

United States: Sharon Maria BEHN, Foreign Desk Reporter, The Washington Times, Washington, D.C.

Amy Lynn BINKERT, Writer and Producer, CNN International, Atlanta, GA

Matthew Stephen DOLAN, Staff Writer, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, VA

Julie Anne SMALL, Deputy Foreign Editor, Marketplace Productions, Los Angeles, CA

Nahal TOOSI, Reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, WI

UNHOLY NATION: Stories from a Gambling Republic

Edited by: John Nery
Written by: Carlos Conde • Emmaruth Gabriel • Iris Cecilia Gonzales • Tiffany Tan
• Miriam Grace Go • Bernadette Sembrano • Jose Torres, Jr.
Photo Essay by: Jim Guiao Punzalan

(From the Claret Publications website)

THIS IS THE WORLD we live in.

In “Better than (Dirty) Ice Cream,” Iris Gonzales of BusinessWorld tracks the life of an ice cream vendor and compulsive gambler, from a room in a shanty in Quezon City to the grassy lot of a tupada in Novaliches.

“High Rollers and Lows,” by Emma Gabriel of Entrepreneur Philippines, crosses the socio-economic divide in its portrait of a once-wealthy man who lost his way—and millions of pesos—in a casino.

ABS-CBN’s Jose Torres Jr., in “The Ultimate Gambler,” sizes up the man whose biggest gamble called the bluff of a President: ex-governor, ex-Estrada crony Chavit Singson.

In “The Vaudeville Show,” Tiffany Tan of GMA-7 attempts to make sense of the many puzzles of police performance in the country’s on-again, off-again campaign against jueteng.

“Masiao Island,” by Carlos Conde of the New York Times, describes the rise and fall of the illegal numbers game popular in Mindanao and the Visayas.

In “Deeper,” Newsbreak’s Miriam Grace Go examines the fascinating relationship between jueteng and that other popular game of chance, the political election.

In “Going Legal,” Go explores the once-discredited idea of legalizing jueteng, offering the illegal drugs problem as both a contrast and an argument.

Finally, in “Shades of Gray,” Bernadette Sembrano of The Probe Team tries to pin down the position of the Catholic Church on gambling and the use of gambling proceeds for charitable purposes.

“One Town,” a photo essay by the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s Jim Guiao Punzalan, complements the narratives with its take on jueteng as a way of life in one ordinary Pampanga town.

Unholy Nation: Stories from a Gambling Republic is produced by the same editorial and publishing team behind Into the Mountain: Hostaged by the Abu Sayyaf, which won the National Book Award for Journalism in 2002.