The Peace Corps named AU the third largest volunteer-producing, middle-sized university in the country Feb. 11. AU lost its No. 2 slot to the University of Virginia by a single student.
AU has fluctuated between second and third place since 2009 with the exception of 2011, when it was in fourth place.
Read the rest of the story at The Eagle.
My first Washington Post story leading the Obituaries front.
Lee Reynolds, an actor who played the seafaring title role on “Cap’n Tugg,” a Washington-area children’s TV show in the 1950s and 1960s, and who later became an announcer, writer and director for the public broadcasting station WETA, died Jan. 27 at Capital Caring hospice in Arlington. He was 87.
The cause was lung cancer, said his wife, Christine Lewis Reynolds.
Read the rest of my obituary of children’s show actor Lee Reynolds and my first byline for The Washington Post.
(On an unrelated note, this is currently my 100th post for ZachCCohen.com!)
UPDATE Jan. 30, 9:43 a.m.
B5 with a skybox on B1: My first print byline for The Washington Post, and my first byline in the print edition of a national newspaper.
TV’s Cap’n Tugg was ‘The Man With a Million Voices’
BY ZACH C. COHEN
zach.cohen@washpost.com
The Washington Post
Jan 30 2014
Lee Reynolds, an actor who played the seafaring title role on “Cap’n Tugg,” a Washington area children’s TV show in the 1950s and 1960s, and who later became an announcer, writer and director for the public broadcasting station WETA, died Jan. 27 at…read more…
If you read my piece for New Voices comparing my experience as a Jew in Costa Rica and Israel, you weren’t the only one.
A number of bloggers read it as well and were not impressed. Some of it reached near libel and/or anti-Semitism. Read the responses for yourself.
The home page of New Voices featuring the my blog post.
Shortly after my blog post went live, the Costa Rica Star responded (I think?) and confirmed my critique of their earlier article about me (I think?).
Starting off the new year in journalism by creating a photo gallery for The Eagle on the opening of American University’s School of Communication’s new home in the McKinley Building. Though up and running, there are still plenty of areas under construction.
Me at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the holiest site in Judaism.
I have no plans to leave the Jewish community. I believe in God, I believe in our collective responsibility to repair the world and my second trip to Israel last month solidified my complex love for the Holy Land.
But by alienating me and other patrilineal Jews, the Jewish community risks our departure from a community that is shrinking every day.
UPDATE: March 7 at 1:07 a.m.
A recent discovery: The essay was also syndicated to The Jewish Journal in Massachusetts North Shore area. h/t to Judy Matfess, finance officer of The Jewish Journal and, coincidentally, my roommate’s mother.
A few weeks ago I went to a Costa Rican presidential debate in San José. When I got back to the states, I wrote, recorded and edited my first international piece and my first piece for Latin Pulse I’ve done in months. It’s also the first time leading the weekly news program.
I also snagged a couple of photos of the candidates present.
This is an important report for me. Majoring in international studies was my way of preparing me for a life of international politics reporting. I’ve also invested myself in radio reporting with work at Latin Pulse as well as PBS MediaShift. The fact that this piece exemplifies both is particularly significant in my professional development.
Hopefully this is not the last.
Some final thoughts on my trip to Costa Rica. I’ll miss it dearly, but I’m happy to be moving on.
Today is my last full day in Costa Rica. And I’m OK with that. I’ve got a great winter break and semester in the works, and what I’ve done here has been phenomenal.
The fact that seeing the gaping maw of an active volcano is considered a day trip here reminds me just how amazing this country is.
I haven’t toured churches this intensely since my trip to Italy in 2010. But Costa Rica was the perfect place to do it. With such a rich history of Catholicism, the country is a rich case study in religious architecture, both old and new.
Zach C. Cohen 