FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
KPFK 90.7 FM
Pacifica Radio - Southern California
www.KPFK.org
September 25, 2012
REPORTING FROM THE DANGER ZONE
Four Journalists Discuss the Perils of Reporting from the World’s Hot Spots
Sponsored by L.A. Press Club and KPFK 90.7
North Hollywood, CA. Each year, dozens of journalists are killed while reporting from the danger zones, sometimes targeted to prevent the flow of important information from reaching the international community. Yet these brave men and women return to these hot spots, sometimes risking their lives to witness some of the darkest elements of the world and report back to their communities. The Los Angeles Press Club and Pacifica Radio KPFK’s The Scholars’ Circle host a live roundtable discussion with journalists who have gone to some of the most dangerous places on the planet.
What: Live discussion and broadcast on reporting from the danger zone with journalists and scholars who have taken great risks from some of the world's most dangerous places to bring us the news.
When: Thursday, September 27, 7 PM
Where: The Los Angeles Press Club, Steve Allen Theater, 4773 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90027
Please RSVP at www.lapressclub.org.
Who:
Terry McCarthy, Emmy Award and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist, former ABC news and CBS News foreign correspondent, former Los Angeles bureau chief for Time Magazine. Currently President and CEO of the World Affairs Council.
Carol Williams, Senior International Affairs Writer, Los Angeles Times. Williams covered the Balkan wars, the Chechen wars, Afghanistan, including during the Soviet occupation in the 1980s, Iraq and the 2004 rebellion in Haiti.
Claudia Núñez, John S. Knight Journalism Fellow and Award Winning La Opinion Reporter, documenting human rights violations along the Mexican border.
Mark LeVine, Professor, UC Irvine, columnist, Al Jazeera, Author of Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv and the Struggle for Palestine, Why They Don’t Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil, An Impossible Peace: Oslo and the Burdens of History and Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam
Moderator: Maria Armoudian, host of KPFK Radio’s The Scholars’ Circle and The Insighters and author of Kill the Messenger: The Media’s Role in the Fate of the World. Maria is a Fellow at the University of Southern California in the Department of Political Science and International Relations.
For inquiries, contact:
Maria Armoudian
Armoudian@aol.com
Alan Minsky, KPFK Program Director
(818) 749-9497
aminsky@kpfk.org
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