Our friends and colleagues at The Highlands Current are celebrating their 15 year anniversary this year. As a fundraiser to help sustain news operations, The Highlands Current will host “A Conversation with New York Times op-ed columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas D. Kristof.”
At this fundraiser at The Garrison Institute on Saturday, June 8, at 7:30 pm, Nicholas Kristof will discuss his journalism with Christopher Buck, Hudson Valley resident and founder and Board Chair of Retro Report, which creates documentary videos on critical news topics.
According to The Washington Post, Kristof “rewrote opinion journalism” with his emphasis on human rights abuses and social injustices, such as human trafficking and the Darfur conflict.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa described Kristof as an “honorary African” for shining a spotlight on neglected conflicts in the continent.
Tickets for this event cost $65 and will include Kristof’s brand new book, Chasing Hope: A Reporter’s Life. Purchase tickets now via this link.
The Highlands Current, a weekly newspaper, and its digital version at highlandscurrent.org, is a reader-funded, nonprofit media organization that serves the communities of Beacon and Philipstown (Cold Spring, Nelsonville, Garrison, North Highlands and Continental Village) in the Hudson Highlands of New York. The Highlands Current paper and digital form are free to the public in order to inform the widest group of readers.
Everyone at the Peekskill Herald congratulates our friends, our colleagues, our neighbors to the north, and our sister non-profit newspaper at The Highlands Current a Happy Anniversary and wish them many more years to come!