Calvin Sims

Current

• Program Officer at The Ford Foundation

Past

• Foreign Correspondent and Producer at The New York Times
• Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University
• Senior Fellow at The Council on Foreign Relations

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Education

• Yale University
• University of California, Berkeley

Connections

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Industry

Philanthropy

Calvin Sims’s Summary

Two decades of award-winning, pioneering journalism as a reporter, foreign and national correspondent, documentary producer, and anchor, across multimedia platforms around the world. Work has appeared in print, podcast, documentary, and web video. Public service as a trustee of various non-profit organizations devoted to education, literacy, democracy, and press freedoms.

Calvin Sims’s Experience

• Program Officer

  The Ford Foundation

  (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Philanthropy industry)

  August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

  Manages the Ford Foundation's portfolio of journalism grants. Focus is to strengthen investigative reporting, foreign correspondence, press freedoms, public television and radio, ethnic media, diversity, journalism standards and ethics, new media, and documentaries in the United States and abroad.

• Foreign Correspondent and Producer

  The New York Times

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Newspapers industry)

  August 1985 — August 2007 (22 years 1 month)

  Calvin Sims was a reporter, foreign correspondent, and producer for The New York Times for two decades. His work has appeared across multimedia platforms, in print, podcast, documentary, and web video.
  Mr. Sims served as host of "The Conversation," a web video program at nytimes.com that features intimate interviews with prominent personalities. He also anchored the website's "World View" podcast, a weekly discussion of foreign affairs with Times correspondents from across the globe. In addition, he produced "Struggle for the Soul of Islam" a critically acclaimed documentary for PBS on the rise of radical Islam in Indonesia.
  Before joining Times Television, Mr. Sims was a foreign correspondent for the newspaper based in South America, Japan, and Indonesia. He has covered guerrilla insurgencies in Latin America, political developments on the Korean peninsula, and the advent of democracy in Indonesia. He has interviewed 30 heads of state.

• Ferris Professor of Journalism

  Princeton University

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  September 2002 — February 2003 (6 months)

  Taught journalism course on how the media covers terrorism.

• Senior Fellow

  The Council on Foreign Relations

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Public Policy industry)

  September 2001 — February 2003 (1 year 6 months)

  During a sabbatical from The New York Times, Mr. Sims was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he led a research project that examined the rise of radical Islamic forces in Indonesia. He also co-edited an online encylopedia on terrorism for the Council's website. He was awarded the Council's Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship. As part of his work at the Council, Mr. Sims served as a consultant for American University's Center for Global Peace,where conducted professional training workshops and cultural exchange programs for journalists in Turkey, Armenia, and Azerbaijan as part of an effort to resolve historical conflicts.

Calvin Sims’s Education

• Yale University

  B.A. , Engineering Sciences , 1981 — 1985

  Activities and Societies:

  Yale Daily News, Yale Scientific Magazine

• University of California, Berkeley

  Graduate School of Journalism , Multimedia Convergence Seminar , 2005

Additional Information

Calvin Sims’s Groups:

Overseas Press Club, Board of Governors
Harlem Educational Activities Fund, Vice Chairman
National Book Foundation, Trustee
Freedom House, Trustee
Council on Foreign Relations
National Association of Black Journalists

Calvin Sims’s Honors:

Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship
Corporation for Public Broadcasting "America at a Crossroads" Grantee
French American Young Leader
American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellowship

Calvin Sims’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals