Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series Welcomes NPR's Deborah Amos on March 24

Mar 2, 2010

WHEN: Wednesday, March 24, 7 p.m.

WHAT: Minnesota Public Radio presents Deborah Amos as part of its Broadcast Journalist Series. A longtime foreign correspondent who covers Iraq for National Public Radio, Amos will speak March 24 in the auditorium of O'Shaughnessy Educational Center at the University of St. Thomas. The lecture is co-sponsored by St. Thomas' College of Arts and Sciences and the Communication and Journalism Department.

Deborah Amos will discuss her new book, "Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile and Upheaval in the Middle East," with Stephen Smith of American RadioWorks. The book examines the effect the Iraq War has had on the four million Sunnis displaced by the downfall of Saddam Hussein's regime.

Amos holds a degree in broadcasting from the University of Florida and joined NPR in 1977. She has been a foreign correspondent based in Amman, Jordan, and NPR's London bureau chief. She spent a decade in television news, reporting for ABC's "Nightline" and "World News Tonight" and the PBS programs "Now with Bill Moyers" and "Frontline." Amos has won several awards, including the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award and Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She spent 1991-92 as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

About the Broadcast Journalist Series

Now in its 13th year, Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series commissions journalists and correspondents for a 24-hour residency four times a year. While here, they share their insights on their craft as well as on people and events that affect them professionally.

WHERE: O'Shaughnessy Educational Center at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul.

TICKETS: Admission is free but tickets are required. Tickets can be picked up at are Bibelot Shops.