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2007 Fellows

The sixth USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship took place May 20 - June 10, 2007. The 2007 Fellows were:

Kurt Andersen, novelist, radio host, columnist. Andersen is author of the new novel Heyday, host and co-creator of Studio 360, America's only national arts-and-culture magazine program, and writes a column for New York magazine, of which he was previously editor-in-chief. Andersen also has been a columnist and critic for Time and The New Yorker, and was co-founder of Spy.
Brett Campbell, Wall Street Journal, West Coast performing arts correspondent. From Portland, Oregon, Campbell has written about music, theater and architecture for West, Salon and The Oregonian. He's been an editor of Oregon Quarterly and The Texas Observer, and music columnist for Eugene Weekly. His biography on composer Lou Harrison is forthcoming.
Celeste Headlee, National Public Radio, freelance reporter and producer, and Detroit News, freelance reporter. Headlee produces features for NPR and regularly writes for the Detroit News. Her show "FrontRowCenter" is an award-winning weekly radio program dedicated to cultural events and issues.
Victoria Infante, La Vibra, the weekly arts magazine for Los Angeles’ Spanish-language newspaper La Opinion, editor. Three years ago, Infante helped re-launch La Vibra, a leading entertainment guide for young Latinos in the U.S. Infante also writes for Espectaculos, the daily entertainment section of La Opinion. Before coming to the U.S., Infante worked as a journalist in Mexico.
Esther Iverem, SeeingBlack.com, founder, editor and film critic, and BET.com, film and arts critic. Iverem previously worked as a staff writer for the Washington Post, New York Newsday, and The New York Times. Her book We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies, 1986-2006 was be published in April 2007.
Carol Kino, The New York Times, regular freelance contributor. Kino, a journalist and cultural critic living in Manhattan, is also a contributing editor at Art & Auction and has written about visual art for Slate and The Atlantic Monthly. Her investigation into Costco's selling of apparently forged Picasso drawings resulted in front-page coverage in The New York Times.
Edward Lifson, Chicago Public Radio, senior editor of arts, architecture and culture. Lifson hosts a one-hour, weekly radio program dedicated to the arts, Hello Beautiful! Every week, he also hosts Three to See, wherein he highlights three important cultural events. In 1996, Lifson established the NPR Berlin bureau and reported on the city’s rebuilding and the war in Kosovo.
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie is an American journalist working as an editor and writer for The Daily Star, an English-language newspaper based Lebanon and distributed to 12 countries in the Middle East. Since 2006, Wilson-Goldie has been a correspondent for Artforum. Before moving to Beirut, she worked for the pop culture magazine Black Book.