Journalists Victor Merina and Laura Sullivan discuss how reporters can effectively cover communities, cultures and people they know little about – and how that situation is even more challenging when those communities are facing a crisis.
Speakers:
- Victor Merina, senior correspondent and special projects editor of Reznet News.
- Laura Sullivan, investigative correspondent for NPR News.
- NPR News introduction by Kristin Gilger, associate dean of Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Merina is a former Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Sullivan is an NPR News investigative correspondent whose work has cast a light on some of the country's most disadvantaged people. She has won numerous awards, including a 2008 Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Award.
The event is being sponsored by: Valley of the Sun Pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
When: Monday, March 7, 2011. 7-8:30 p.m.
Where: The First Amendment ForumӬ
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass CommunicationӬ
555 N. Central Ave.
ӬPhoenix, AZ