Join us for the closing session of the Winter ’23 Thought-Leadership Writing Incubator hosted by Rhea Wessel. It’s open to the public. Learn about how the program went, meet the winner of our award for the best article, and hear from our guest speaker, Betsy Pisik.
Betsy is serving as our judge for the Winter ’23 awards session, and will speak about her choice of a winning article. She will also share with us how she organizes her ideas and research for long-form writing. These organizational tips can help you have all your materials and ideas at hand for article writing.
This is a virtual event
About Betsy Pisik
Betsy has been called the Swiss army knife of journalists, having worked as wine critic, war correspondent, business reporter, feature writer, photographer, editor and author.
Betsy covered the United Nations for a decade, writing about policy and diplomacy from its New York headquarters and exploring the real-world impact of these decisions from the field. Between 1996 and 2009, she reported for the Washington Times (WDC) and Straits Times (Singapore) from a dozen countries and regions that were – and still are -- shredded by war and crushed by poverty. She has covered armed conflicts in Lebanon, Gaza, Afghanistan, and Congo, and her account of the 2003 Iraq invasion was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has also covered domestic politics with global implications in Israel, Pakistan, Syria, and Nigeria.
In 2010, Betsy returned to Afghanistan to train new journalists for NATO, a somewhat quixotic effort in a country with no memory of a free press and a literacy rate of only 38 percent. She later mentored a cadre of Pakistani political reporters to build more credible and comprehensive coverage in support of the political process, not specific parties.
More recently, Pisik co-wrote Resolved, the memoir by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, which was published by Columbia University Press in 2021. The book has been translated into Korean, Spanish, and Russian, and will soon be released in French and German. A documentary based on the book is underway.
Betsy pivoted to cannabis in 2021, covering the billion-dollar industry’s evolving legal, economic, and social implications in a country long dominated by the illicit market.
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