Journalism in the Public Interest

Visiting Assistant Professor Cheryl Hatch spoke at the University of Pittsburgh on November 12. Cindy Skrzycki invited Hatch to speak to students in her Great Modern Journalists class about Great Female Correspondents at the Front. Hatch brought Allegheny students from their News Writing and We’ve Got the Beat courses with her for a field trip. Hatch showed her short film “A Luta Continua” about Eritrean women soldiers and ex-fighters, and she answered students’ questions about her time covering war and its aftermath in conflicts in the Middle East and Africa. Hatch and the journalism students then visited the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at the invitation of executive editor David Shribman. Students took a tour of the newsroom and the presses. They also attended and observed the afternoon page-one meeting with the editorial board.

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Three photographs by Visiting Assistant Professor Cheryl Hatch will be included in a children’s book, tentatively titled “The Next Wave,” by Elizabeth Rusch, scheduled for publication by Houghton Mifflin in 2014. The book is about Dr. Annette von Jouanne, a professor and electrical engineer whose work focuses on wave energy.

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Three Allegheny students were published in the Meadville Tribune on October 29. “Gators show resiliency during up-and-down season,”  an article by Adam Bronson ’16 about the women’s volleyball team, was featured on the sports page. “Former White House correspondent to speak tonight at Allegheny College,” an article by Christina Bryson ’16, appeared on the front page. An article by Robert Litz ’14, “Presidential power highlight of lecture,” discussed Associate Professor of Political Science Brian M. Harward’s Pelletier Library Lecture. Christina also had a story published in the Erie Times-News about journalist Sheryl Gay Stolberg’s visit to Allegheny. All three students are in Journalism 320, We’ve Got the Beat, a class taught by Cheryl Hatch, visiting assistant professor in the Journalism in the Public Interest program.

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Visiting Assistant Professor in English and Communication Arts Cheryl Hatch was a featured speaker at the 18th Annual Communication Week April 8-12 at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio. An international photojournalist, Professor Hatch presented images from her decades covering conflict in the Middle East and Africa for a lecture, “Journalism and Trauma: A War Photographer’s Guide to Covering Stories of Pain and Suffering.”

This year’s Communication Week focused on the awareness of First Amendment rights for journalists. It also narrowed in on the connection between journalism and trauma: how to approach trauma victims, report on times of suffering, and keep emotions under control while maintaining a sense of objectivity.

“I want people to understand that everyone who confronts war and its aftermath pays a high price, including the journalists who serve as the witnesses and storytellers — who listen to the voices and document the faces of those who might otherwise be forgotten,” said Hatch, in an interview with the Xenia Daily Gazette.

She was also a guest on the Miami Valley Journal radio program on WCSU 88.9. Listen to part of the interview here: CherylHatch_CommWk

Professor Hatch’s work can be viewed at www.isisphotos.com.

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Cheryl Hatch, visiting assistant professor of English and Communication Arts, answers five questions for us. Professor Hatch is a longtime photojournalist who, among her accomplishments, spent time embedded with United States troops in Afghanistan. She also spent time in Somalia and has worked at daily newspapers in Florida and Oregon. She was a Snedden Endowed Chair in journalism at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. At Allegheny, besides teaching journalism courses, she serves as the advisor to The Campus newspaper and has hosted several Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists at the College.

1.      What is your favorite spot on campus?

It’s got to be the Allegheny College Bookstore. The staff — Shirley, Pete, Kim, Denise — have been kind and helpful since my first day on campus. I pass through the Campus Center often and I usually drift into the bookstore. They play good music and I like browsing for books. I have great conversations with Pete, and he will often recommend a book I haven’t read.

2.      What in your opinion makes Allegheny a unique place?

Definitely, the students.  They are the reason I came to Allegheny.

3.      What is the coolest thing that Allegheny has made possible for you?

I am discovering a new culture and language.  I share a classroom, a newsroom and a campus with the young people who will shape our world, and I get to share with them the wisdom, experience and lessons I learned in my life and my journalism career.  I have daily opportunities to raise awareness about the value and importance of journalism — in our world and in a liberal arts education.

4.      What goal(s) have you set for the next three years?

I will return to Kuwait (where she recovered from a life-threatening illness last spring) to celebrate with friends. I will join friends in the Save the Bay Swim for Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, get my private pilot’s license, scuba dive in new waters (South Africa, Indonesia), and trek on new paths. I will write … people have always asked if I’ve written a book … it’s time to get to it.

5.      You are seated next to President Mullen at dinner. What do you strike up a conversation about?

Childhood dreams. I’d ask him if there was any one thing he’d wanted to do as a boy that he hasn’t pursued yet.

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When Leon Panetta lifted the ban on women in combat, Visiting Assistant Professor Cheryl Hatch’s recent photographs of women soldiers in Afghanistan were distributed worldwide. Hatch embedded with the 1st Battalion 5th Infantry Regiment 1/25 Stryker Brigade Combat Team in southern Kandahar Province. Throughout her career, she has focused on women in war zones: civilians and soldiers. In Afghanistan, she documented the work of the soldiers of the Female Engagement Team, who join the infantrymen on patrol in order to make contact with Afghan women. Hatch’s photographs have been published in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Images published in the Christian Science Monitor last year can be seen here.

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When Leon Panetta lifted the ban on women in combat, Visiting Assistant Professor Cheryl Hatch’s recent photographs of women soldiers in Afghanistan were distributed worldwide. Hatch embedded with the 1st Battalion 5th Infantry Regiment 1/25 Stryker Brigade Combat Team in southern Kandahar Province. Throughout her career, she has focused on women in war zones: civilians and soldiers. In Afghanistan, she documented the work of the soldiers of the Female Engagement Team, who join the infantrymen on patrol in order to make contact with Afghan women. Hatch’s photographs have been published in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Images published in the Christian Science Monitor last year can be seen here.

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