2006

Thursday, October 19th

7:30pm

The Washington Post at War

A panel of reporters and editors from The Washington Post will discuss their experiences covering Iraq. The panel includes Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Iraq bureau chief and author of “Imperial Life in Emerald City;” Steven Fainaru,a 2006 Pulitzer Prize finalist for his Iraq coverage; Post stringer Omar Fekeiki and Jackie Spinner Post Staff Writer and former Iraq correspondent, and author of, “Tell Them I Didn’t Cry: A Young Journalists Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq.”

Jackie Spinner
Staff Writer and Former Baghdad Bureau Chief, The Washington Post
Author, “Tell Them I Didn’t Cry: A Young Journalists Story of Joy, Loss, and Survivial in Iraq”

Steve Fainaru
2006 Pulitzer Prize finalist (International Reporting) for his Iraq coverage for The Washington Post

Omar Fekeiki
Stringer, The Washington Post
Washington Post Fellow, UC Berkeley

Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Assistant Managing Editor of The Washington Post and recent of author of “Imperial Life In The Emerald City.” He previously served the Post as a bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. Chandrasekaran recently completed a term as journalist-in-residence at the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, and was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center.

SPONSORED BY

The Graduate School of Journalism, a Herb Caen San Francisco Chronicle Lecture

LOCATION

Wheeler Hall

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