Thursday, April 17, 2008
4:00-6:00pm
Pabst Theatre
144 E Wells Street
Milwaukee, WI
This major world affairs event held annually at the Pabst Theater will explore the role of the media in framing Foreign Policy issues prior to the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election. Two guest experts will be featured in this Wisconsin Public Radio LIVE Broadcast.
David Marash
Former Lead Anchor, Al Jazeera English, Washington, DC http://english.aljazeera.net/English
Dave Marash joined Al Jazeera English from the ABC News’ Nightline where from 1989 he was an award-winning correspondent covering global as well as US domestic stories.
Marash’s coverage of world events has been highly acclaimed, winning him an Emmy Award in 1980 for coverage of the Sandinisa Revolution in Nicaragua, in 1994 for coverage of the war in Bosnia, in 1996 for coverage of the domestic terrorism in Oklahoma City and in 1996 for covering the explosion of TWA flight 800 off the coast of Long Island and an Emmy Award nomination in 2005 for coverage of the effects of the Asian tsunami in Sri Lanka.
He was also been awarded the Du Pont Award and Global Health Award in 2000 for a three part series of Nightline programmes on the effects of AIDS in Zimbabwe.
He was also awarded the Overseas Press Club Award for his radio reports of the 1972 Black September hostage killings at the Munich Olympic Games.
Claudia Rosett
Journalist-in-Residence, Foundation for Defense of Democracies http://www.defenddemocracy.org/
Claudia Rosett is a Journalist-in-Residence with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Currently based in New York, she has reported over the past 27 years from Asia, the former Soviet Union, Latin America and the Middle East. In recent years she has focused on the United Nations, especially U.N.-related corruption and terrorist money trails; and also writes about democratic movements in despotic states. From 1984-2002 she was a staff writer at The Wall Street Journal, working as Book Review Editor in New York (1984-86); Editorial-Page Editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal based in Hong Kong (1986-93); as a Reporter and then Bureau Chief based in Moscow (1993-96); and as a member of the Editorial Board in New York (1997-2002).
For her on-site coverage of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising, Ms. Rosett won an Overseas Press Club Citation for Excellence. In 2005 she won the Eric Breindel Award and Mightier Pen Award for her reporting on corruption under the United Nations Oil-for-Food program.
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