Foreign Correspondence and the Future of Public Media: A Speaker Series (with Keith B. Richburg)

November 12, 12:45 PM

12:45 - 2:00 pm, American University, Mary Graydon Center Room 324

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.

Keith Richburg graduated from University of Michigan in 1980, where he was Truman Scholar, and received a Master’s of Science in International Affairs from the London School of Economics in 1984. He was born in Detroit, Michigan.

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. Click here for a complete listing of speakers in the series.

Foreign Correspondence and The Future of Public Media is funded by the Ford Foundation through its Future of Public Media Project.