{{Short description|American journalist and author}} {{Infobox person | name = Elizabeth Farnsworth | image = Elizabeth Farnsworth photo.jpg | alt = | caption = Elizabeth Farnsworth (2008) | birth_name = Elizabeth Fink | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1943|12|23}} | birth_place = Minneapolis, Minnesota | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Author and Journalist | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = ''Last Light'' and ''A Train Through Time – A Life, Real and Imagined'' }}
'''Elizabeth Farnsworth''' (née '''Fink'''; 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,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.flinthillspublishing.com/elizabeth-farnsworth|last=Flint Hills Publishing|title=Elizabeth Farnsworth|date=2024|accessdate=7 September 2024}}</ref> ''Last Light'', which was published by Flint Hills Publishing (March, 2024), and a memoir.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.counterpointpress.com/books/a-train-through-time|last=Counterpoint Press|title=A Train Through Time – A Life, Real and Imagined|date=13 February 2017|accessdate=7 September 2024}}</ref> Her 2008 documentary, The Judge and the General, (co-directed with Patricio Lanfranco), aired on television around the world, winning many awards.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Jorge Heine |title=An Emmy and the general |url=https://www.cigionline.org/articles/emmy-and-general/ |website=cigionline.org |publisher=CIGI |access-date=11 October 2024 |quote=The documentary, recently nominated for an Emmy award (the Oscars of the television industry) in the category of "Outstanding Historical Programming,"...}}</ref> She has reported from Cambodia, Vietnam, Chile, Haiti, Iraq, and Iran, among other places.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Jeffery Brown |title=Veteran NewsHour journalist on early loss, life's journeys. |url=https://www.pbs.org/video/veteran-newshour-journalist-on-early-loss-life-s-journeys-1497575027/ |website=pbs.org |publisher=PBS News Hour |access-date=17 October 2024 |quote=Elizabeth Farnsworth traveled the world for years as a foreign correspondent for the NewsHour.}}</ref> Having previously lived in Peru, Chile, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. for extended periods, she now lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, Charles E. Farnsworth. They have two married children and six grandchildren.
==Early life and education== 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.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Miranda Ericsson |title=Elizabeth Farnsworth: A Train Through Time |url=https://tscpl.org/articles/elizabeth-farnsworth-ia-train-through-time-i |website=tscpl.org |publisher=Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library |access-date=17 October 2024 |quote=My father, H. Bernerd Fink, was the first baby born in Elmhurst, a neighborhood laid out in a cow pasture of southwest Topeka in 1909, the year of his birth.}}</ref> Both of her parents are descended from easterners who came to Kansas as pioneers. Farnsworth's mother's great-grandparents were abolitionists.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tscpl.org/articles/author-profile-elizabeth-farnsworth|last=Swisher|first=Hayley|title=Author profile: Elizabeth Farnsworth|website=Topeka & Shawnee (KS) County Public Library|date=28 March 2024|accessdate=10 September 2024}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://the-shocker.wichita.edu/story.php?eid=1&id=254|last=Kachel|first=Brendan|title=In Memoriam|date=Spring 2008|journal=The Shocker|accessdate=10 September 2024}}</ref>
Farnsworth graduated from Topeka High School in 1961 and was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in 1998.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Farnsworth |first1=Elizabeth |title=Hall of Fame Inductees Prior to 2009 |url=https://www.thshistoricalsociety.org/points-of-interest/hall-of-fame/hall-of-fame-inductees-prior-to-2009/ |website=Topeka High Historical Society |access-date=24 May 2024}}</ref> She attended Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1965.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Farnsworth (Fink) |first1=Elizabeth |title=Middlebury College Catalogue Bulletin 1965-1966 |website=Internet Archive |date=1965 |publisher=Middlebury College |access-date=24 May 2024 |url=https://archive.org/details/middleburyCourseCatalogs_a10-3_1965/page/n149/mode/2up |page=151 |quote=Degrees Conferred With Distinction}}</ref> She earned an M.A. in Latin American History from Stanford University in 1966. She received an honorary doctorate degree from Colby College (2002)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Farnsworth |first1=Elizabeth |title=Commencement 2002 |url=https://issuu.com/colbycollegelibrary/docs/2002_v091_n3 |website=issuu.com/colbycollegelibrary |publisher=Colby College Libraries |access-date=10 June 2024 |location=Colby Magazine vol. 91, no. 3 |pages=8–9 |format=PDF Flipbook |date=Summer 2002 |quote=Honorary degrees were presented to ...Elizabeth Farnsworth, an award-winning senior correspondent for the Lehrer News Hour;}}</ref> and Washburn University<ref>Washburn University Alumni Association and Foundation, ''Ichabod Magazine'' (Spring-20-21), "Honorary Degrees - Washburn University conferred honorary degrees on four people during the spring 2021 commencement ceremonies" (page 26): "Elizabeth Farnsworth, Doctor of Humane Letters".</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washburn.edu/student-life/commencement/pdfs/honorary%20degree/honorary-degree-recipients.pdf|last=Washburn University|title=Honorary Degree Recipients|date=August 2021|accessdate=10 September 2021}}</ref> (2021).
==Career== 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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Farnsworth |first1=Elizabeth |title=Elizabeth Farnsworth |url=https://placesjournal.org/author/elizabeth-farnsworth/ |website=Places Journal |access-date=6 August 2024 |quote=Her writings have appeared in various publications, including Foreign Policy, World Policy Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation and Mother Jones.}}</ref> With Eric Leenson and Richard Feinberg, she wrote about the economic blockade against Chile during the years Salvador Allende was president.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Farnsworth |first1=Elizabeth |title=Lake and FeinBerg the Best and the Brightest? |url=https://nacla.org/article/lake-and-feinberg-best-and-brightest |website=North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) |publisher=The North American Congress on Latin America |date=25 September 2007 |access-date=10 September 2024 |quote=...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.}}</ref> That research became a book, El Bloqueo Invisible,<ref>{{cite web |author1=Elizabeth Farnsworth |author2=Eric Leenson |author3=Richard Feinberg |title=Chile : el bloqueo invisible |url=https://www.amazon.com/Chile-bloqueo-invisible-Estados-America/dp/B00DVXGFL6 |website=Amazon |publisher=Periferia |date=1 January 1973 |access-date=10 September 2024}}</ref> in Buenos Aires in 1973.
In 1984 she became a contributing correspondent to ''The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Farnsworth Biography |url=https://www.infoplease.com/biographies/art-entertainment/elizabeth-farnsworth |website=InfoPlease |publisher=Sandbox Networks Inc. |access-date=22 May 2024 |quote=She joined the PBS nightly news program, The MacNeil Lehrer News Hour (now The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer) in 1984 as a contributing correspondent.}}</ref> later known as ''The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer'' and then ''PBS News Hour''. In 1995 she became chief correspondent and principal substitute anchor,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Farnsworth |first1=Elizabeth |title=Elizabeth Farnsworth |url=https://humanrights.berkeley.edu/people/elizabeth-farnsworth/ |website=Berkeley Human Rights Center |access-date=10 September 2024 |quote=She (Farnsworth) is a filmmaker, foreign correspondent, and former chief correspondent and principal substitute anchor of PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.}}</ref> and in 1999 became senior correspondent and head of the San Francisco office.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Farnsworth |first1=Elizabeth |title=Elizabeth Farnsworth Biography |url=https://www.infoplease.com/biographies/art-entertainment/elizabeth-farnsworth |website=InfoPlease |access-date=10 September 2024 |quote=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.}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/local/2017/06/11/former-newshour-correspondent-elizabeth-farnsworth-talks-journalism-new-memoir/16541012007/ |last=Cole |first=Adam |title=Former 'NewsHour' correspondent Elizabeth Farnsworth talks journalism, new memoir at Topeka library |newspaper=The Topeka Capital-Journal |location=Topeka, Kansas |date=June 11, 2017 |accessdate=10 September 2024 |quote=Elizabeth Farnsworth, former "NewsHour" foreign correspondent, spent years reporting abroad in countries as far away as Japan, Vietnam, and Chile.}}</ref>
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,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Farnsworth |first1=Elizabeth |title=Dakota Is Everywhere |url=https://placesjournal.org/article/dakota-is-everywhere/ |journal=Places Journal |date=June 2013 |issue=2013 |doi=10.22269/130606 |access-date=10 September 2024|doi-access=free }}</ref> opened at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Farnsworth |first1=Elizabeth |title=Fractured: North Dakota's Oil Boom |url=https://ndmoa.com/2014/08/fractured-north-dakotas-oil-boom/ |website=North Dakota Museum of Art |date=August 2014 |access-date=10 September 2024 |quote=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...}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Christine Hurley |title="Fractured: North Dakota's Oil Boom" |url=https://news.wttw.com/2013/07/31/fractured-north-dakotas-oil-boom |website=WTTW (Window to the World) |publisher=WTTW |date=31 July 2013 |access-date=10 September 2024 |quote=Farnsworth worked with photographer Terry Evans on this Field Museum exhibit.}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Dakota Resource Council |title=Fractured: North Dakota's Oil Boom In Bismarck, ND March 3 – 30 |url=http://drcinfo.org/fractured-north-dakotas-oil-boom-bismarck-nd-march-3-30/ |website=Dakota Resource Council |date=1 March 2015 |access-date=10 September 2024 |quote=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...}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.worldaffairs.org/about-us/council-leadership/advisory-committee| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304101358/http://www.worldaffairs.org/about-us/council-leadership/advisory-committee| archive-date = 2016-03-04| title = Advisory Committee - World Affairs Council}}</ref> She also serves on the Advisory Committee of the UC Berkeley School of Law Human Rights Center.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.law.berkeley.edu/centers/human-rights-center/about-hrc/advisory-board-faculty-council/| title = Home {{!}} Human Rights Center| date = 2024| accessdate = 10 September 2024}}</ref>
==Awards and honors== *1984 – San Francisco Film Festivals, '''Golden Gate Award'''<ref>{{cite web |title=The Gospel and Guatemala |url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6650172/trivia/ |website=Internet Movie Database |date=2024 |access-date=10 September 2024 |quote="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.}}</ref> for ''The Gospel and Guatemala'',<ref>{{cite news |author1=John Corry |title='Gospel And Guatemala' A Look At Proselytizing |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/28/movies/gospel-and-guatemala-a-look-at-proselytizing.html |access-date=5 September 2024 |work=New York Times |date=March 28, 1985 |quote=The documentary is a production of KQED in San Francisco. The producers are Stephen Talbot and Elizabeth Farnsworth.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Gospel and Guatemala |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6650172/ |website=Internet Movie Database |date=2024 |access-date=10 September 2024}}</ref> co-produced by Farnsworth and Stephen Talbot. The production aired on PBS. *1991 – CINE's '''Golden Eagle Award''' for ''Thanh's War'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Thanh's War |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/478365/thanhs-war#overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506094406/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/478365/thanhs-war#overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 6, 2021 |website=Turner Classic Movies |date=2024 |access-date=5 September 2024 |quote=Elizabeth Farnsworth, Director}}</ref> co-produced by Farnsworth and John Knoop. The production aired on PBS.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Judge and the General |url=https://itvs.org/films/judge-and-the-general/ |website=itvs.org |publisher=Independent Television Service |access-date=21 September 2024 |quote=Her (Farnsworth) documentary Thanh's War (co-directed with John Knoop), which aired on PBS in 1991, garnered a CINE Golden Eagle, among other awards....}}</ref> *1992 – '''American Film and Video Festival Blue Ribbon Award''' and the '''National Educational Film Festival Award''' for ''Thanh's War'', co-produced by Farnsworth and John Knoop.<ref>{{cite web |title=2012 VNCA Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Film Festival |url=https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/events/filmfestival/2012.php |website=vietnam.ttu.edu |publisher=Texas Tech University |access-date=11 October 2024 |quote=Awards: American Film Festival Blue Ribbon and the National Educational Film Festival Award.}}</ref> *1995 - The Topeka Capital-Journal's 1997 '''Distinguished Kansan Of The Year Award'''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kansan of the Year award winners 1965-2018 |url=https://www.cjonline.com/picture-gallery/news/local/2014/12/18/kansan-of-the-year-award/67248336007/ |website=cjonline.com |publisher=The Topeka Capital-Journal |access-date=26 September 2024 |location=Just past half-way down the page article in a block of text content beneath a photo show Bill Graves |quote=Elizabeth Farnsworth, professional}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Staff Writer, Topeka Capital-Journal |title=Through the years: Kansans of the Year, Distinguished Kansans since 1965 |url=https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/local/2014/12/28/through-years-kansans-year-distinguished-kansans-1965/16644529007/ |website=cjonline.com |publisher=The Topeka Capital-Journal |access-date=12 October 2024 |quote=1995 Elizabeth Farnsworth, professional}}</ref> *2001 – New York Festivals, '''Silver World Medal''' for TV Programming,<ref>{{cite web |title=(PBS) Awards - 2001, The New York Festivals' Silver World Medal for AIDS in Africa (Coverage of On-Going Story) |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/awards |website=PBS |publisher=PBS News |date=2024 |access-date=10 September 2024}}</ref> The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, ''AIDS in Africa-Global Help<ref>{{cite web |last1=Farnsworth |first1=Elizabeth |title=Aids In Africa-Global Help |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/aids-in-africa-global-help |website=PBS |publisher=PBS News |date=21 May 2001 |access-date=10 September 2024 |quote=The Africa/AIDS catastrophe has many faces: The sick and dying, the mourners at graveside...}}</ref>'' (four-part series). Farnsworth did the reporting for this series that was produced by Joanne Elgart.<ref>{{cite web |title='NewsHour' to Feature AIDS in Africa Series This Week |url=https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/dr00004580/ |website=KFF Health News |date=14 May 2001 |accessdate=10 September 2024}}</ref> *2010 – Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcast journalism, for The Judge and the General.<ref>{{cite web |title=Program Descriptions of 2010 duPont-Columbia Award Winners |url=http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/page/733/9-program-descriptions-of-2010-dupont-columbia-award-winners/165 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211104739/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/page/733/9-program-descriptions-of-2010-dupont-columbia-award-winners/165 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-12-11 |website=Columbia Journalism School |access-date=11 September 2024 |quote=In this superb documentary, Farnsworth and Lanfranco follow one man's transformation as he investigates human rights violations in Chile from the Pinochet era.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Judge and the General, Elizabeth Farnsworth & Patricio Lanfranco, duPont-Columbia Award Winner 2010 |url=https://vimeo.com/30923821 |website=vimeo.com |date=21 October 2011 |publisher=Vimeo |access-date=12 September 2024 |quote=In this superb documentary, Farnsworth and Lanfranco follow one man's transformation as he investigates human rights violations in Chile...}}</ref> The production aired on PBS.
==Nominations== *1991 – '''San Francisco Bay/ Northern CA Area Emmy''' nomination for Outstanding Individual Achievement: Writing-program for ''Thanh's War'', written by KQED's, Elizabeth Farnsworth.<ref>{{cite web |title=1990-91 San Francisco Bay/ Northern California Emmy Award Nominees |url=https://emmysf.tv/files/2015/11/Emmy91PressRelease.pdf |website=emmysf.tv |publisher=The National Academy of Arts and Sciences, San Francisco Bay/ Northern California Chapter |access-date=22 September 2024 |pages=7 |date=1991 |quote=Outstanding Individual Achievement: Writing-program for Thanh's War, KQED, Elizabeth Farnsworth}}</ref> *2001 – '''Emmy Awards''' nomination: PBS NewsHour 4 part 2001 series, ''AIDS crisis in Botswana and Malawi'', produced by Joanne Elgart, reported by Elizabeth Farnsworth.<ref>{{cite web |title=Terry Evans & Elizabeth Farnsworth: North Dakota Oil Boom - Biographical Note |url=https://www.nevadaart.org/art/collections/the-archive/CAE1407/finding-aids/ |website=nevadaart.org |publisher=Nevada Museum of Art |access-date=21 September 2024 |quote=In 2001, she (Farnsworth) reported from Malawi and Botswana on the AIDS crisis in Africa in a special four-part series (produced by Joanne Elgart), which received the 2001 Silver World Medal from the New York Festivals and an Emmy nomination.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Farnsworth |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Lehrer |first2=Jim |title=Fighting Back Against HIV in Botswana |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/fighting-back-against-hiv-in-botswana |website=pbs.org |date=16 May 2001 |publisher=Public Broadcasting System |access-date=21 September 2024 |quote=Now Elizabeth Farnsworth's third report on the AIDS crisis in Africa. Last night, she told of *Botswana's prevention efforts; tonight she reports on the government's efforts to get anti-AIDS drugs to its people.}}</ref> *2008 – '''Directors Guild of America''' nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for ''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), co-produced by Farnsworth and co-producer/director Patricio Lanfranco.<ref>{{cite web |title=Date Lines: News from the Bay Area arts scene - Filmmaker nominated |url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/date-lines-news-from-the-bay-area-arts-scene-3176478.php |website=sfgate.com |publisher=Hearst Communications, Inc. |access-date=11 October 2024 |quote=Bay Area filmmaker Elizabeth Farnsworth has been nominated by the Director's{{sic |nolink=yes}} Guild of America for its 2008 Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in the documentary category.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=61st Annual DGA Awards Honoring Outstanding Directorial Achievement for 2008 / Documentary Nominee |url=https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/2000s/2008 |website=dga.org |publisher=Directors Guild of America |access-date=10 October 2024 |location=9th block of info down from top of page |quote=Documentary Nominee Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco}}</ref> *2009 – '''Emmy Awards''' nomination for Best Historical Documentary for ''The Judge and the General'', co-produced by Farnsworth and co-producer/director Patricio Lanfranco.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Tom White |title=News & Documentary Emmy Nods Announced |url=https://www.documentary.org/blog/news-documentary-emmy-nods-announced |website=documentary.org |date=15 July 2009 |publisher=International Documentary Association |access-date=10 October 2024 |location=17 titles down from top of page list |quote=The Judge and the General}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Judge and the General |url=http://store.cinemaguild.com/nontheatrical/product/2307.html |website=store.cinemaguild.com |publisher=Cinema Guild |access-date=11 October 2024 |location=see bullet list of "Festivals & Awards" located about halfway down site pgae |quote=Emmy Nominated, Outstanding Historical Programming-Long Form, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Jorge Heine |title=An Emmy and the general |url=https://www.cigionline.org/articles/emmy-and-general/ |website=cigionline.org |publisher=CIGI |access-date=11 October 2024 |quote=The documentary, recently nominated for an Emmy award (the Oscars of the television industry) in the category of "Outstanding Historical Programming,"...}}</ref>
==Select interviews of Farnsworth== *{{cite interview |last= |first= |subject-link=Elizabeth Farnsworth |interviewer=Terry Gross |title= A New Life in the United States after "Thanh's War" |work=Fresh Air with Terry Gross & Tonya Mosely |date=April 15, 1991 |publisher=PBS, WHYY |location=Philadelphia |url= https://freshairarchive.org/guests/elizabeth-farnsworth |access-date=October 11, 2024}} *{{cite interview |last= |first= |subject-link=Elizabeth Farnsworth |interviewer=member of POV staff |title= Judge and the General - Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco - Behind the Lens, POV-PBS |work= pbs.org - POV |date=October 29, 2015 |publisher= PBS News |location= Berkeley, CA |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwPVmm0cimo |access-date=October 16, 2024}} *{{cite interview |last= |first= |subject-link=Elizabeth Farnsworth |interviewer=Jeffrey Brown |title= For a veteran NewsHour journalist, early loss defined her life's journeys |work= PBS News Hour, NewsHour Bookshelf |date=March 23, 2017 |publisher= PBS News Hour |location= |url= https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/veteran-newshour-journalist-early-loss-defined-lifes-journeys |access-date=October 15, 2024}} *{{cite interview |last= |first= |subject-link=Elizabeth Farnsworth |interviewer=Christine Hurley |title=Fractured: North Dakota's Oil Boom |work= WTTW, PBS, Science & Nature |date=July 31, 2017 |publisher= PBS |location=WTTW, PBS Chicago |url= https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/veteran-newshour-journalist-early-loss-defined-lifes-journeys |access-date=October 24, 2024}} *{{cite interview |last= |first= |subject-link=Elizabeth Farnsworth |interviewer=Laura Lorson |title= KPR Presents: Elizabeth Farnsworth, Last Light |work= Kansas Public Radio (KPR) Presents |date=May 30, 2024 |publisher=Kansas Public Radio |location=Lawrence, KS |url= https://kansaspublicradio.org/podcast/kpr-presents/2024-05-30/kpr-presents-elizabeth-farnsworth-last-light |access-date=October 13, 2024}} *{{cite interview |last= |first= |subject-link=Elizabeth Farnsworth |interviewer=Michael Krasny |title= Grey Matter with Michael Krasny, Elizabeth Farnsworth – A Woman of Distinction |work= Grey Matter with Michael Krasny (podcast) |date=September 26, 2024 |publisher=Apple Inc. |location=Novato, CA |url= https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/elizabeth-farnsworth-a-woman-of-distinction/id1632759024?i=1000670791441 |access-date=October 15, 2024}}
==Select interviews by Farnsworth== *'''Shimon Peres''' (Israeli Prime Minister), {{cite interview |last= |first= |subject-link=Shimon Peres |interviewer=Elizabeth Farnsworth |title= Elizabeth Farnsworth interviews Minister Peres of Israel |work= PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer |date=April 29, 1996 |publisher= American Archive of Public Broadcasting |location= Blair House, Washington DC |url= https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-507-jh3cz32w52?start=407.85&end=1205.08 |access-date=October 16, 2024}} *'''14th Dalai Lama''' (spiritual leader of the Tibetan people), {{cite interview |last= |first= |subject-link=Dalai Lama |interviewer=Elizabeth Farnsworth |title= Elizabeth Farnsworth interviews Dalai Lama - (view at 47:50 point) |work= PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer |date=April 22, 1997 |publisher= American Archive of Public Broadcasting |location= Washington DC |url= https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-507-qz22b8w72b |access-date=October 16, 2024}} *'''Renée Fleming''' (opera star), {{cite interview |last= |first= |subject-link=Renee Fleming |interviewer=Elizabeth Farnsworth |title= Diva In Demand, Elizabeth Farnsworth talks to soprano Renee Fleming - (view at 41:02 point) |work=PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer |date=October 13, 1999 |publisher= American Archive of Public Broadcasting |location= WETA-TV, Washington, D.C. |url= https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-507-ff3kw58589 |access-date=October 16, 2024}} *'''Henry Kissinger''' (American diplomat), {{cite interview |last= |first= |subject-link=Henry Kissinger |interviewer=Elizabeth Farnsworth |title= Kissinger On Chile, Pinochet |work=Online NewsHour |date= February 6, 2001 |publisher= PBS.org, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer |location= |url= https://www.pbs.org/newshour/spc/bb/latin_america/chile/documents/kissinger_02-06-01.html |access-date=October 11, 2024}} *'''Amos Oz''' (Israeli writer), {{cite interview |last= |first= |subject-link=Amos Oz |interviewer=Elizabeth Farnsworth |title= Coping with Conflict: Israeli Author Amos Oz |work=PBS NewsHour |date=January 23, 2002 |publisher= PBS.org, NewsHour |location= |url= https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/coping-with-conflict-israeli-author-amos-oz |access-date=October 15, 2024}}
==Selected works== * Elizabeth Farnsworth [https://www.amazon.com/Last-Light-Elizabeth-Farnsworth-ebook/dp/B0CXSNN3J6 "Last Light"] (Berkeley, California, 2024) {{ISBN|978-1953583819}} * Elizabeth Farnsworth [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Tn9LEAAAQBAJ ''A train through time''] (Berkeley, California, 2017) {{ISBN|978-1-61902-601-8}}
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==External links== *[https://www.lastlightbook.com Elizabeth Farnsworth] "Last Light" book website *[https://www.mrsdalloways.com/events/elizabeth-farnsworth-launches-her-new-novel-last-light Mrs. Dalloways Bookstore] Elizabeth Farnsworth Launches Her New Novel "Last Light" *[https://elizabeth-farnsworth.com Elizabeth Farnsworth] "A Train Through Time" book website *[https://www.counterpointpress.com/authors/elizabeth-farnsworth Counterpoint Press website] bio *[https://www.wordafterwordbooks.com/visit-elizabeth-farnsworth-author word after word, BLOG] A Visit with Elizabeth Farnsworth, Author *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080707081928/http://www.middlebury.edu/alumni/mcaa/awards/1998.htm Elizabeth Fink Farnsworth] at Middlebury College
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