In March 2016, Nora FitzGerald will work as a journalist trainer at the African Journalists for Sustainable Fisheries Workshop in Elmina, Ghana.
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Nora FitzGerald in Ghana
In March 2016, Nora FitzGerald will work as a journalist trainer at the African Journalists for Sustainable Fisheries Workshop in Elmina, Ghana.
Watch this site for more information!
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Panel: LGBT Rights in Russia at FotoWeekDC
Join the Pulitzer Center for “LGBT Rights in Russia” at FotoWeekDC 2015 on Thursday, November 12. Grantees Nora FitzGerald and Misha Friedman, and special guest Dmitry Chizhevsky, a Russian who was a victim of anti-LGBT violence in St. Petersburg will speak as part of this panel discussion. FitzGerald discusses her reporting on Russia’s government crackdown […]
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Cracking Down on Russia’s LGBT Activists
“Cracking Down on Russia’s LGBT Activists” discusses the struggles of activists for LGBT rights in Russia, such as Nikolai Baev. This piece by Nora Fitzgerald was commissioned through a grant by the Pulitzer Center and published on November 17, 2014.
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In St. Petersburg, an LGBT film festival hangs on in face of Russian homophobia
“In St. Petersburg, an LGBT film festival hangs on in face of Russian homophobia” discusses the challenges faced by the organizers of the Side by Side LGBT Film Festival in Novosibirsk. This piece by Nora Fitzgerald was published by The Washington Post on November 14, 2014.
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From Ukraine’s Independence Square, the art of the revolution
This piece is about a Ukrainian group calling itself “Civil Sector of the Maidan” and their protest art called “The Kingdom of Darkness Is Surrendered.” Dozens of women and men hold torso-size mirrors in their hands, reflecting the wall of riot police standing before them. This article was published in Washington Post.
About Nora FitzGerald
I have been a journalist for more than 20 years, and was a special correspondent for The Washington Post and International Herald Tribune from Moscow, Berlin and Warsaw. I was
Featured Posts
Panel: LGBT Rights in Russia at FotoWeekDC
Join the Pulitzer Center for “LGBT Rights in Russia” at FotoWeekDC 2015 on Thursday, November 12. Grantees Nora FitzGerald and Misha Friedman, and special guest Dmitry Chizhevsky, a Russian who was a victim of anti-LGBT violence in St. Petersburg will speak as part of this panel discussion. FitzGerald discusses her reporting on Russia’s government crackdown […]
Art News
Sailing with the Kabakovs The Ship of Tolerance, the first in a series of installations by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, was launched in 2005 on a saltwater lake in the Siwa Oasis in Egypt. The Kabakovs picked Siwa, on the border of the Libyan Desert, for many reasons, among them its ancient mythology and modern […]
Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov are charting new terrain by using the language of Socialist Realism to comment on contemporary Russia.
Criticism
Dancer David Dorfman meditates on love and loss in ‘Come, and Back Again’
A review of the work of dancer David Dorfman entitled “Come, and Back Again,”
Required Reading: German supernova
Required Reading: German supernova Published in The New York Times on January 10, 2006 Writers like Günter Grass called the years after the Holocaust Nullpunkt, or “point zero,” and pondered, existentially, “How could Germans write?” In the end, the novels of Grass, W.G. Sebald and Bernhard Schlink richly mined hatred, evil, guilt – and redemption. […]
Social Issues
The Fear of Being Gay in Russia
Moscow’s first gay pride parade was held in May 2006, thirteen years after homosexuality was decriminalized in Russia. It was supposed to be a joyous occasion, the beginning of a new era of openness for the LGBT community.
Some Battered Women Find Shelter in Russia
This article published in USA Today focused on the plight of battered women in Russia.
Editor / Writer for Hire
PULITZER CENTER GRANTEE: I am a feature writer who writes about humanitarian and global health concerns as well as arts and culture. I have just received a grant from the
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