The Robert N. Butler and Jack Rosenthal Age Boom Academy
Columbia University's signature training for journalists covering health and longevity
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This signature journalism and aging training is a program of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center
based at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and run in partnership with the Columbia Journalism School.
based at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and run in partnership with the Columbia Journalism School.
News about our 2022 press training will be forthcoming. The topic planned is the informal caregiving economy in the United States and the opportunity costs for society and for healthy longevity.
To read about the 2021 Age Boom Academy in this piece " 'Age Boom' Journalist Bootcamp Focuses on Solutions to Older Adult Loneliness.
To discover recordings of the 2021 training sessions, please visit our program portal here.
And to read output from our 2021 Age Boom Academy Fellows, see our reporting page here.
If you are a journalist and wish to receive our 2022 application, please join our mailing list: ColumbiaAgingCenter@cumc.columbia.edu.
To read about the 2021 Age Boom Academy in this piece " 'Age Boom' Journalist Bootcamp Focuses on Solutions to Older Adult Loneliness.
To discover recordings of the 2021 training sessions, please visit our program portal here.
And to read output from our 2021 Age Boom Academy Fellows, see our reporting page here.
If you are a journalist and wish to receive our 2022 application, please join our mailing list: ColumbiaAgingCenter@cumc.columbia.edu.
ACADEMY LEADERSHIP
Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH - Director, Age Boom Academy
Caitlin M. Hawke - Project Lead, Age Boom Academy
Bruce Shapiro - Co-director, Age Boom Academy
Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH - Director, Age Boom Academy
Caitlin M. Hawke - Project Lead, Age Boom Academy
Bruce Shapiro - Co-director, Age Boom Academy
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The Columbia Aging Center’s signature press 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 School of Journalism, the 2021 Age Boom Academy was on the topic of Combatting Loneliness in Aging: Toward a 21st Century Blueprint for Societal Connectedness. Future Academies will deal with the coming caregiving crisis in America among other topics. F |
The goal of our Age Boom Academy is to engage and train journalists in current science and policies related to longevity. This was the sole training for a competitively-selected group of journalists to focus on the research and empirical data on the health consequences of loneliness in America, its causes, and on how policies and practices could build human connectivity, cohesion and foster purpose for older adults.
Our 2021 speakers feature dLinda P. Fried, MD, MPH; Caitlin Hawke; Louise Hawkley, PhD; Sara Czaja, PhD; Tom Kamber, PhD; Becca Levy, PhD; Roger O'Sullivan, and many others. Senior journalist-mentors included: Bruce Shapiro, Rodney Brooks, Rich Eisenberg, Chris Farrell, Kerry Hannon, and Carol Hymowitz. |
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Age Boom Academy has received generous grant funding from The RRF Foundation for Aging. We also acknowledge a gift from the AARP Foundation in support of our upcoming press training.
Age Boom Academy also acknowledges past support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies.
Contact ColumbiaAgingCenter@cumc.columbia.edu for more information.