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The Columbia Aging Center’s signature media training was founded by globally-recognized geriatric pioneer Robert N. Butler, MD, and prize-winning New York Times editor and writer Jack Rosenthal as an intensive, high-impact training seminar for journalists, editors, and producers in all media – print, on air and online – to deepen understanding of the health, economic, and social issues around aging.
Run in partnership with the Columbia Journalism School, the 2022 Age Boom Academy will cover the topic of Caregiving and Our Longer Lives–The $500 Billion Question. The 2021 Academy covered the causes and solutions of loneliness in aging. F |
The goal of our Age Boom Academy is to engage and train working members of the media in current science and policies related to longevity. This is the sole training for a competitively-selected group of journalists to focus on the research and empirical data on the looming caregiving crisis in America and the policies, private-sector, and civil society solutions to address it.
Our 2022 speakers will feature Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, Dean, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health; Bruce Shapiro, Director, Dart Center, Columbia Journalism School; MacArthur grantee and Creative Care innovator Anne Basting; AARP policy specialist Susan Reinhard; CEO of Caregiver Action Network John Schall; New Old Age NYT columnist Paula Span; NYT editorial board member Michelle Cottle, and many others. Noted journalists covering aging will assist in the training and include: Rich Eisenberg, Chris Farrell, Kerry Hannon, Carol Hymowitz, and Julia Yarbough. |
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