For the second consecutive year, Professors Joel Kaplan and Simon Perez accompanied 15 Newhouse journalism students on a 10-day trip to Israel where the students reported on such diverse topics as water shortages, minority women and Ethiopian refugees. This year there was additional focus on the national Israeli elections since the campaign was in full swing during the March trip.
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For the second consecutive year, Professors Joel Kaplan and Simon Perez accompanied 15 Newhouse journalism students on a 10-day trip to Israel where the students reported on such diverse topics as water shortages, minority women and Ethiopian refugees. This year there was additional focus on the national Israeli elections since the campaign was in full swing during the March trip.
The trip was the centerpiece of Kaplan’s International Reporting class and was sponsored by the Jerusalem Press Club. The trip was financed in part by a generous contribution from the Crown Family Foundation through Lester and Renee Schine Crown. Renee is a graduate of Syracuse University. As part of the trip, the students spent two days in the West Bank and traveled to the borders of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Gaza.
Award-winning bilingual reporter Simon Perez is a 20-year news industry veteran. His professional experience includes work in television (KPIX CBS 5 in San Francisco; WRIC ABC 8 in Richmond, Virginia.; WGXA Fox 24 in Macon, Georgia.; and Canal de Noticias, NBC NewsChannel in Charlotte, North Carolina), newspaper (ABC Prensa Española in Madrid, Spain; Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, Virginia.; and Danville Register & Bee in Danville, Virginia) and magazine (Macworld/España in Madrid, Spain). He also served as a reporter for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games in 1996. He is a recipient of 2007 and 2008 Northern California Emmy Awards for best evening and daytime newscasts, and attended the Knight Digital Media Center’s Multimedia Reporting and Convergence Workshop at the University of California at Berkeley.