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Come join us via ZOOM for an inspiring presentation with Steve Ditlea, a seasoned journalist with over 50 years of experience and Columbia University alum on Tuesday, April 29th from 7-9 pm. Steve will be sharing invaluable insights and humor from his encounters with iconic figures such as Robert De Niro, P.J. O’Rourke, John Wayne, Richard Pryor, Grateful Dead, Yoko Ono, Steve Jobs, Bob Marley, Timothy Leary, Aretha Franklin, Jerry Nadler, and more!
You owe it to yourself to learn from some of the most incisive minds of recent times, as reported by a journalist who met most before the media herd. In his presentation, you’ll find inspiration in encounters with actors, musicians, humorists, tech innovators, business leaders and health experts. The pithy lessons drawn from their success will enhance your world.
During his junior year in college, Steve's photograph from inside the Columbia president’s office during the 1968 student strike appeared on the front page of The New York Times, a coup at age 20. Two weeks later in another campus demonstration he was struck on the head by a NYPD plainclothes cop (they became friends 20 years later), prompting his exit from photojournalism for the safety of written reporting. Senior year in his college paper he spotlit Robert De Niro, before the actor met Marty Scorsese.
Over a half century of freelance journalism Steve has been ahead of the pack in discovering talent and spotting trends in pop culture, science and business. His work has appeared in a wide spectrum of truth-focused mainstream publications, including the NY Times, NY Daily News, Rolling Stone, Country Music, SPIN, Upside, AdWeek, Publishers Weekly, Popular Mechanics, Scientific American, CyberTimes, Technology Review, Consumer Reports, Reader's Digest and more.
Straight out of college, without an expensive journalism school degree, he tapped into Manhattan’s media channels. Within his first year he interviewed soon-to-be mega-band Fleetwood Mac (pre-Stevie Nicks), legendary actor John Wayne, civil rights pioneer Margaret Kuhn, and singer/songwriter Willie Nelson.
Within a few years, Steve was surfing successive waves of personal computing, software design, internet developments, e-evolution, mobile communications, and screen dreams. He was also on the winning side of a landmark intellectual property (IP) case decided by US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Columbia Law ’59), just 6 years until verdict from filing and finally receiving punitive payment—27 years!
Today, with perspective from over a half-century of journalism, Steve is sharing the tenets and takeaways picked up in his reporting. Some may seem obvious, like “Think Different” from legendary Apple founder Steve Jobs. But have you ever thought about what that really means?
Would you expect that all-American hero John Wayne would teach an eye-witness to “stay humble” or that
Dr. Timothy Leary, the Harvard psychologist who popularized LSD, would end his days declaring: “Every day, new people”?
This event will be recorded for those that can't make the lecture!
$50 per screen. RSVP Here: JournalismHumor.eventbrite.com
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