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Elizabeth Farnsworth | |
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Born | Minneapolis, Minnesota | 23 December 1943
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, and filmmaker. She is a 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, [1] Last Light, which was published by Flint Hills Publishing (March, 2024), and a memoir. [2] 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 previously lived in Peru, Chile, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. for extended periods, she now lives in Berkeley, California.
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 (1937–2022). 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. [3] 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. [4]
Farnsworth graduated from Topeka High School in 1961 and was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in 1998. [5] She attended Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1965. [6] She earned an M.A. in Latin American History from Stanford University in 1966. She received an honorary doctorate degree from Colby College (2002) [7] and Washburn University [8] [9] (2021).
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. [10] With Stephen Talbot she wrote a column, Dispatches, for The Nation. [11] With Eric Leenson and Richard Feinberg, she wrote about the economic blockade against Chile during the years Salvador Allende was president. [12] That research became a book, El Bloqueo Invisible, [13] in Buenos Aires in 1973.
In 1984 she became a contributing correspondent to The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, [14] later known as The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and then PBS News Hour . In 1995 she became chief correspondent and principal substitute anchor, [15] and in 1999 became senior correspondent and head of the San Francisco office. [16] 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. [17]
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, [18] opened at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. [19] [20] 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. [21]
Farnsworth 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. [22] She also serves on the Advisory Committee of the UC Berkeley School of Law Human Rights Center. [23]
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Degrees Conferred With Distinction
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)Her writings have appeared in various publications, including Foreign Policy, World Policy Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation and Mother Jones.
...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.
She joined the PBS nightly news program, The MacNeil Lehrer News Hour (now The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer) in 1984 as a contributing correspondent.
She (Farnsworth) is a filmmaker, foreign correspondent, and former chief correspondent and principal substitute anchor of PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
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.
Elizabeth Farnsworth, former "NewsHour" foreign correspondent, spent years reporting abroad in countries as far away as Japan, Vietnam, and Chile.
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...
Farnsworth worked with photographer Terry Evans on this Field Museum exhibit.
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...
"The Gospel and Guatemala" was produced and released by KQED, San Francisco, in 1983, and subsequently aired nationally on PBS in 1985. It was the winner of a 1984 Golden Gate Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival.
The documentary is a production of KQED in San Francisco. The producers are Stephen Talbot and Elizabeth Farnsworth.
Elizabeth Farnsworth, Director
The Africa/AIDS catastrophe has many faces: The sick and dying, the mourners at graveside…
In this superb documentary, Farnsworth and Lanfranco follow one man's transformation as he investigates human rights violations in Chile from the Pinochet era.
In this superb documentary, Farnsworth and Lanfranco follow one man's transformation as he investigates human rights violations in Chile...