Schwarzman Session: How the Truth Survives

Schwarzman Sessions are peer-led gatherings where conversations generate collaborations and move ideas into action. Because seats are limited, registrants will be automatically placed on the waitlist and will be notified via email if they are selected to participate. 

The job of journalism—to hold the powerful to account, to get events ‘on the record,’ and to write accurate first drafts of history—must persist even as the profession faces severe economic and ethical challenges, including of its own making. What is the way forward? Can journalism, with all its frailties, be a noble cause? Beyond curiosity and an ability to write, what can help find the truths hidden in a world full of lies? What ethics might best guide journalists? What can help keep one safer while reporting under dangerous conditions? Join international and award winning journalist, Poynter Fellow Ann Curry for this important discussion.

Ann Curry, 2024 Poynter Fellow at Yale

Award-winning journalist Ann Curry has been selected as a 2024 Poynter Fellow at Yale. Ann is a former NBC Network news anchor and national and international correspondent. She has reported from conflicts around the world, including Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Darfur, Kosovo, Lebanon, and Israel. She contributed groundbreaking journalism on Climate Change when it was being denied, interviewing scientists and native peoples, documenting glacial melt in the Arctic, the Antarctic, and on Mount Kilimanjaro, as well as documenting the deepening drought in the American West. Ann is also known for her focused reporting from inside Iran, giving voice to its women, human rights activists, and young people. She also first broke the news of Iran's interest in negotiating a nuclear agreement with the outside world.

Ann has conducted a long list of exclusive and news-breaking interviews, which have included: Iran's Presidents Rouhani, Ahmadinejad, and Khatami; Sudan's President Omar Bashir and South Sudan's President Salva Kiir; Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; U.S. Presidents George Prescott Bush, Bill Clinton, George Walker Bush, and Barack Obama; as well as then Vice-President Joe Biden and Jill Biden, Secretaries of State John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, the Dalai Lama, Sir Edmund Hillary, Maya Angelou, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska.

Ann has also executed-produced and reported a documentary series about world events with PBS, and a medical series about the needs of the underinsured with Lionsgate.

Ann was given the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement in Journalism award in 2022. Among her numerous other awards are seven national news Emmys, the NAACP Excellence in Reporting award, Women in Communications’ Matrix award, as well as humanitarian awards from Refugees International, Americares, Save the Children, and the Muhammad Ali Center. The Simon Wiesenthal Center awarded her a Medal of Valor for her dedication to reporting about genocide.

About her Poynter Fellowship, Ann writes: “The job of journalism – to hold the powerful to account, to get events ‘on the record,’ and to write accurate first drafts of history – must persist even as the profession faces severe economic and ethical challenges, including of its own making. What is the way forward? Can journalism, with all its frailties, be a noble cause? Beyond curiosity and an ability to write, what can help find the truths hidden in a world full of lies? What ethics might best guide journalists? What can help keep one safer while reporting under dangerous conditions?”

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