Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series Welcomes NPR's Dina Temple-Raston April 14

Mar 2, 2010

WHEN: Wednesday, April 14, 7 p.m.

WHAT: Minnesota Public Radio presents Dina Temple-Raston, counterterrorism correspondent for National Public Radio, will speak April 14 at the O'Shaughnessy Educational Center at the University of St. Thomas. Tom Crann, host of Minnesota Public Radio's "All Things Considered," will host the lecture.

Her talk about terrorism on U.S. soil and abroad is the season finale of Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series and is co-sponsored by St. Thomas' College of Arts and Sciences and the Communication and Journalism Department.

Temple-Raston has reported about the Somali-American men who went missing from Minneapolis and the U.S.-born cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been linked to terror. She is also an award-winning author: her first book, "A Death in Texas," won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and was chosen one of the Washington Post's Best Books of 2002. She has written two books related to civil liberties and national security: "In Defense of Our America," and "The Jihad Next Door."

Temple-Raston holds a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University and a master's from the Columbia University School of Journalism.

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.