Elizabeth Farnsworth
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Born | 1943 Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Author and Journalist |
Notable work | Last Light and A Train Through Time – A Life, Real and Imagined |
Elizabeth Farnsworth (born December 23, 1943) is a journalist, author, filmmaker, former foreign correspondent and former chief correspondent and principal substitute anchor of PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. She has written two books, including a novella, Last Light, which was published by Flint Hills Publishing (March, 2024), and a memoir, A Train Through Time – A Life, Real and Imagined, published by Counterpoint Press (February, 2017). Her 2008 documentary, The Judge and the General, (co-directed with Patricio Lanfranco), aired on television around the world, winning many awards. She has reported from Cambodia, Vietnam, Chile, Haiti, Iraq, and Iran, among other places. Having lived in Peru, Chile, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. for extended periods, she now lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, attorney Charles E. Farnsworth. They have two married children and six grandchildren.
Early life and education
[edit]Farnsworth was born Elizabeth Fink in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the daughter of Jane (Mills) Fink (1911- 1953) and H. Bernerd Fink (1909–1999), while her father was stationed at Wold–Chamberlain Naval Air Station during WW II (now known as Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport). From this union, she had one older sister, Marcia (Fink) Anderson (1937–1922). Shortly after Elizabeth's birth, the family moved (1944) back to Topeka, Kansas, where both her parents had been born and raised. Both of her parents are descended from easterners who came to Kansas as pioneers. Farnsworth's mother's great-grandparents were abolitionists.
In 1953, when she was 9 years old, her mother died of cancer. Her father remarried in 1955 to a widow, Ruth (Garvey) Cochener, who had three children from her previous marriage.
Farnsworth graduated from Topeka High School in 1961 [1] and was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in 1998.[2] She attended Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1965.[3] She earned an M.A. in Latin American History from Stanford University in 1966. She received an honorary doctorate degree from Colby College (2002)[4] and Washburn University[5] (2021).
Career
[edit]Farnsworth first appeared regularly on public television in 1975 as a panelist covering Latin America on the national television program "World Press", produced by KQED in San Francisco. In the 1970s and 80's she contributed articles to the San Francisco Chronicle, Foreign Policy, and Mother Jones (magazine), among other publications.[6] With Stephen Talbot she wrote a column, Dispatches, for The Nation.[7] With Eric Leenson and Richard Feinberg, she wrote about the economic blockade against Chile during the years Salvador Allende was president.[8] That research became a book, El Bloqueo Invisible,[9] in Buenos Aires in 1973.
In 1984 she became a contributing correspondent to The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,[10] later known as The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and then PBS News Hour. In 1995 she became chief correspondent and principal substitute anchor,[11] and in 1999 became senior correspondent and head of the San Francisco office.[12] From 1984 until 2005, she reported in print and on television from numerous countries, among them:Vietnam, Cambodia, South Korea, Japan, Chile, Peru, Guatemala, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Israel (the West Bank and Gaza), Botswana, Malawi and Turkey.[13]
Farnsworth was a Fellow at the Center for Art Environment of the Nevada Museum of Art from 2010 to 2013. In June 2013 an exhibit, Fracked: North Dakota's Oil boom, featuring photographs by Terry Evans (photographer) and written by Farnsworth,[14] opened at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.[15] [16] After a year, the exhibit traveled to the North Dakota Museum of Art, and since then it has traveled to other cities in North Dakota.[17]
She is a former member of the Board of Directors of the World Affairs Council (Northern California) and currently a member of that organization's Advisory Committee.[18] She also serves on the Advisory Committee of the UC Berkeley School of Law Human Rights Center.[19]
Awards
[edit]- 2001 – New York Festivals, Silver World Medal for TV Programming[20], The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, AIDS in Africa-Global Help[21] (four-part series). Farnsworth did the reporting for this series that was produced by Joanne Elgart.[22]
- 1983 - Farnsworth co-produced (with Stephen Talbot) The Gospel and Guatemala, which won a Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco Film Festival and aired on PBS. In 1990 she co-produced (with John Knoop) Thanh's War, which aired on PBS and won a Cine Golden Eagle.
- 2008 - Farnsworth and co-producer/director Patricio Lanfranco released The Judge and the General, a feature-length documentary film about the personal transformation of Chilean Judge Juan Guzmán as he tries to bring Augusto Pinochet to justice for human rights crimes. The film opened at the San Francisco Film Festival, aired on public television on POV, and garnered a 2008 Directors Guild of America nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement[23] and a 2008 Emmy award nomination for Best Historical Documentary.[24] The Judge and the General won a 2010 duPont-Columbia Award for excellence in broadcast journalism.[25]
References
[edit]- ^ Jeffery Ann Goudie (Winter 2018). "Elizabeth Farnsworth: An Appreciation". Topeka Magazine. p. 13. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
She graduated from Topeka High School in 1961...
- ^ Farnsworth, Elizabeth. "Hall of Fame Inductees Prior to 2009". Topeka High Historical Society. Topeka High Historical Society. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
- ^ Farnsworth (Fink), Elizabeth. "Middlebury College Catalogue Bulletin 1965-1966". Internet Archive. Middlebury College. p. 151. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
Degrees Conferred With Distinction
- ^ Farnsworth, Elizabeth (Summer 2002). "Commencement 2002" (PDF Flipbook). issuu.com/colbycollegelibrary. Colby Magazine vol. 91, no. 3: Colby College Libraries. pp. 8–9. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
Honorary degrees were presented to …Elizabeth Farnsworth, an award-winning senior correspondent for the Lehrer News Hour;
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: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ Farnsworth, Elizabeth. "Honorary Degrees - Washburn University conferred honorary degrees on four people during the spring 2021 commencement ceremonies" (PDF). Washburn University, Alumni Association and Foundation. Honorary Degrees: Washburn University. p. 26. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
Elizabeth Farnsworth, Doctor of Humane Letters.
- ^ Farnsworth, Elizabeth. "Elizabeth Farnsworth". Places Journaal. Places Journal. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
Her writings have appeared in various publications, including Foreign Policy, World Policy Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation and Mother Jones.
- ^ Farnswroth, Elizabeth. "Content Archive of Printed Periodicals and Books, Elizabeth Farnsworth". unz.com. Ron Unz. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- ^ Farnsworth, Elizabeth. "Lake and FeinBerg the Best and the Brightest?". North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). The North American Congress on Latin America. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
...Feinberg collaborated with Elizabeth Farnsworth and Eric Leenson to write the special NACLA Report, "Facing the Blockade," which exposed the full extent of U.S. economic and political aggression against Chile.
- ^ Elizabeth Farnsworth; Eric Leenson; Richard Feinberg. "Chile : el bloqueo invisible". amazon.com. Periferia. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- ^ "Elizabeth Farnsworth Biography". InfoPlease. Sandbox Networks Inc. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
She joined the PBS nightly news program, The MacNeil Lehrer News Hour (now The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer) in 1984 as a contributing correspondent.
- ^ Farnsworth, Elizabeth. "Elizabeth Farnsworth". humanrights.berkeley.edu. Berkely Human Rights Center. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
She (Farnsworth) is a filmmaker, foreign correspondent, and former chief correspondent and principal substitute anchor of PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
- ^ Farnsworth, Elizabeth. "Elizabeth Farnsworth Biography". infoplease.com. InfoPlease. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
Farnsworth was named chief correspondent and principal substitute anchor in 1995, and in 1999 she became senior correspondent, concentrating on foreign affairs and the arts. She also heads the NewsHour's San Francisco office.
- ^ Farnsworth, Elizabeth (June 11, 2017). "Former 'NewsHour' correspondent Elizabeth Farnsworth talks journalism, new memoir at Topeka library". cjonline.com - The Topeka Capital-Journal. No. June 11, 2017. The Topeka Capital-Journal. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
Elizabeth Farnsworth, former "NewsHour" foreign correspondent, spent years reporting abroad in countries as far away as Japan, Vietnam, and Chile.
- ^ Farnsworth, Elizabeth. "Dakota Is Everywhere". placesjournal.org. Places Journal. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
- ^ Farnsworth, Elizabeth. "Fractured: North Dakota's Oil Boom". North Dakota Museum of Art. North Dakota Museum of Art. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
This exhibition was developed by The Field Museum, Chicago, in collaboration with Terry Evans and Elizabeth Farnsworth, Fellows of the Center for Art+Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art...
- ^ Christine Hurley. ""Fractured: North Dakota's Oil Boom"". WTTW (Window to the World). WTTW. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
Farnsworth worked with photographer Terry Evans on this Field Museum exhibit.
- ^ Dakota Resource Council. "Fractured: North Dakota's Oil Boom In Bismarck, ND March 3 – 30". Dakota Resource Council. Dakota Resource Council. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
The North Dakota Museum of Art is touring Fractured: North Dakota's Oil Boom throughout the State as part of its Rural Arts Initiative program. Fractured opened at NDMOA last August and three sites were selected to host the exhibition. This exhibition will be in Bismarck...
- ^ "Advisory Committee - World Affairs Council". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
- ^ "Home | Human Rights Center".
- ^ "(PBS) Awards - 2021, The New York Festivals' Silver World Medal for AIDS in Africa (Coverage of On-Going Story)". PBS.orf. PBS News. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
- ^ Elizabeth, Farnsworth. "Aids In Africa-Global Help". pbs.org. PBS News. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
The Africa/AIDS catastrophe has many faces: The sick and dying, the mourners at graveside…
- ^ "'NewsHour' to Feature AIDS in Africa Series This Week". KFF Health News. KFF Health News.
- ^ "Awards / History / 2008".
- ^ "Nominees for the 30th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards Announced by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences". Archived from the original on 2014-07-05.
- ^ "Program Descriptions of 2010 duPont-Columbia Award Winners - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism". Archived from the original on 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2014-01-12.
External links
[edit]- Flint Hills Publishing Elizabeth Farnsworth page
- Elizabeth Farnsworth “Last Light” book website
- Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore Elizabeth Farnsworth Launches Her New Novel "Last Light"
- Elizabeth Farnsworth “A Train Through Time” book website
- Topeka & Shawnee (KS) County Public Library Farnsworth Interview Transcript
- word after word, BLOG A Visit with Elizabeth Farnsworth, Author
- Places Journal article, “Dakota Is Everywhere” text by Elizabeth Farnworth