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Foreign Correspondence and the Future of Public Media: A Speaker Series
email discuss Posted by Ann Williams on Sep 18, 2007 at 3:27 PM
The Center for Social Media proudly presents Foreign Correspondence and the Future of Public Media, a series that addresses the future of reliable, sober, unbiased information from abroad at a time when our nation is engaged in two foreign wars — and when the number of mainstream foreign correspondents is actually diminishing.
The series, organized by AU’s Bill Gentile, is comprised of internationally-recognized foreign correspondents. Each speaker brings unique and valuable insight into the current state of foreign correspondence, and especially its future.
Foreign Correspondence and The Future of Public Media is funded by the Ford Foundation through its Future of Public Media Project.
Each lecture is in MGC 324, from 12:45 until 2 pm.
Speakers include:
Monday 24 September
Nancy Youssef, The McClatchy Company. McClatchy’s chief Pentagon correspondent, Youssef spent the past four years covering the Iraq war, most recently as Baghdad bureau chief. Her pieces focused on the everyday Iraqi experience, civilian causalities and how the U.S.’s military strategy was reshaping Iraq’s social and political dynamics.
She joined the Washington Bureau in August 2005. Before that, she was a reporter for the Detroit Free Press, covering legal issues. While at the Free Press, she traveled throughout Jordan and Iraq for Knight Ridder, covering the Iraq war from the time leading up to it through the post-war period. She began her journalism career at the Baltimore Sun. She has won several awards for her work including from Maryland-D.C. Delaware Press Association and the Detroit chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. A Washington, D.C.-area native, she earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from University of Virginia and began her post-graduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Her parents are from Egypt, and she has been visiting the region all of her life. She speaks Arabic.
Youssef will discuss the nuts and bolts of daily correspondence from a war zone, and how she envisions the future of such reporting.
Monday 8 October
Jonathan Landay, The McClatchy Company. McClatchy’s national security and intelligence correspondent, Landay has written about foreign affairs and U.S. defense, intelligence and foreign policies for 15 years. In 2005, he was part of a team that won a National Headliners Award for “How the Bush Administration Went to War in Iraq.” He also won a 2005 Award of Distinction from the Medill School of Journalism for “Iraqi exiles fed exaggerated tips to news media.”
Landay will discuss the importance of colleagues’ reporting from abroad and how that meshes with reporting in Washington. He also will address the issue of reporting stories that conflict with those of other journalists.
Monday 29 October
Kevin Klose, president National Public Radio. Monday (NPR). Kevin Klose is president of NPR, America’s premier non-profit news and cultural radio programming service, renowned for journalistic excellence and standard-setting news and entertainment programming. A former editor, and national and foreign correspondent with The Washington Post, Klose is an award-winning author and international broadcasting executive.
Klose will discuss the future of acquisition and dissemination of information, and non-profit media as an alternative to for-profit media outlets.
Monday 12 November
Keith B. Richburg, Foreign Editor
Keith Richburg joined the Washington Post in 1980 as a reporter
assigned to the Metro staff following two summer internships with the
Post in 1978 and 1979. After working for six years in Washington as a
Metro and National reporter, he left for Manila where he was the
Washington Post South Asia Bureau Chief from 1986 to 1990. Richburg
later became the Bureau Chief in Nairobi from 1991 to 1995, Hong Kong
from 1995 to 2000, and Paris from 2000 to 2005, before returning to
Washington in the position of Foreign Editor. During his tenure as a
foreign correspondent, Richburg also covered the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict and the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001 and
2003, respectively.
He was awarded the George Polk Award for Foreign reporting in 1993 for
his coverage of the American intervention in Somalia and in 1998 for
his coverage of the South Asian economic crisis, and he has received
Citations for Excellence from the Overseas Press Club in 1992 and 1994.
Discussion
Missing from this series are the editors and publishers of ethnic and minority newspapers in the U.S. who supply international news to their readers that is reliable, balanced and informative.
Over 15 million people read the Black press, which raises the question: how is it possible to have a comprehensive examination of the future of public media without the editorial perspectives of this critical sector? Regrettably, this appears to be another example of how the new media discussion fails to include marginalized communities, independent and community based media, even though their numbers are on the rise nationwide.