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Age Boom Academy 2022

​Caregiving and Our Longer Lives: The $500 Billion Question
How do we support American families as informal caregiving becomes their reality?
​In its third decade, Columbia University's signature media training on issues around aging is a fellowship program of the Columbia Journalism School, the Columbia Aging Center, and the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health​.
Introducing our 2022 Age Boom Academy Fellows
PAMELA APPEA | Independent Journalist
LIZA BERGER | Editor, McKnight's Home Care
ANDREA KING COLLIER | Freelance Journalist and Author
SABRINA CREWS | Digital Editor, Next Avenue
LISA ESPOSITO | Health Reporter, U.S. News & World Report
ZACHARY FLETCHER | Freelance Journalist, Kitsap Sun/USA Today, The World, Next Avenue
PATTI GRECO | Freelance Journalist, Health, Bustle, Glamour
SARA HARRISON | Freelance Journalist
J.O. HASELHOEF | Journalist, The Haitian Times
HADLEY HITSON | Rural South Reporter, Montgomery Advertiser
DARTINIA HULL | Freelance Journalist, Next Avenue, ASA, NCALA
NINA KECK | Senior Reporter, Vermont Public
SOFIE KODNER | Freelance Journalist
WILLIAM J. KOLE | New England Editor, The Associated Press
JENNIFER LAGEMANN | Freelance Writer, Forbes Health
JEANETTE LEARDI | Freelance Journalist
JIM LENAHAN | Executive Editor, AARP Media
RONNIE LOVLER | Correspondent, Main Street Daily News
SARA LUTERMAN | Caregiving Reporter, The 19th
NORA MACALUSO | Freelance Journalist
LILA MACLELLAN | Writer, Fortune
LAUREN J. MAPP | Caregiving, Senior Care and Indigenous Communities Reporter, The San Diego Union-Tribune
GAIL MARKSJARVIS | Author and Freelance Journalist, Barron’s
BRITTANY MCGEE | Reporter, The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
KAT MCGOWAN | Freelance Journalist, Wired, Popular Science
BETSY MCKAY | Senior Writer, The Wall Street Journal
JAYA PADMANABHAN | Freelance Journalist, Ethnic Media Services
CLAIRE PERLMAN | Editor, Accessibility and Aging in Place, Wirecutter
ROBERT POWELL, CFP | Editor & Publisher, Retirement Daily on TheStreet
KATHY RITCHIE | Senior Field Correspondent, KJZZ News
CHRISTINE SCHIAVO | Editor, Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley
CARLY STERN | Freelance Journalist
FRANCES KAI-HWA WANG | Communities Correspondent Dearborn/Detroit, PBS NewsHour
YIYAN ZHENG | Reporter, World Journal

If you are a member of the media and wish to obtain information about future calls for applications for our competitively selective Academy, please send an email to: 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
Jennifer P. Ware, Event Manager, Age Boom Academy

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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.

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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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Age Boom Academy has received generous grant funding from The RRF Foundation for Aging.
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Age Boom Academy also acknowledges past support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies and the AARP Foundation.
Contact ColumbiaAgingCenter@cumc.columbia.edu for more information.
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