Educational Program with Storer H. (“Bob”) Rowley: The Importance of Foreign Correspondents in a World of Disinformation
Educational Program with Storer H. (“Bob”) Rowley: The Importance of Foreign Correspondents in a World of Disinformation.
Materials that participants should consider prior to this educational program
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-0410030437oct03-story.html: It was a story that was part of a series published at the Chicago Tribune that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1996. The focus of the series was about why people have children they can’t afford to raise, and it focused on different topics and reasons around the world.
https://foreignpress.org/news/journalists-mobilize-continue-to-report-stories-amid-putin-press-freedom-crackdown: Bob’s story on the freedom of the press issues at play in Russia during the Ukraine crisis.
WHEN: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6 | 7.30 PM EST
Storer H. (“Bob”) Rowley writes commentary for Washington Monthly and the Chicago Tribune, among other outlets. He teaches journalism at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and co-directs Medill’s Politics, Policy and Foreign Affairs specialization for graduate students. He is also Adjunct Faculty at Northwestern’s School of Communication and a former Assistant Vice President of Media Relations at the University. Earlier, as an award-winning journalist, Rowley spent 30 years working for the Chicago Tribune (1979-2009), the last seven of them as national editor, and covered stories in more than 50 countries. He also served as a member of the Tribune’s Editorial Board writing about foreign affairs and defense issues, and before that, was a foreign correspondent for 12 years based in Mexico, Canada and Israel. He served as the Tribune’s White House and Pentagon correspondents in Washington, D.C. He has covered wars and conflict, natural disasters, human rights, politics, economics, culture, religion and the human condition around the world. He is a member of the board of the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the USA.