MPR News' Broadcast Journalist Series Welcomes NPR Correspondent Kelly McEvers on September 30

Sep 10, 2013

Minnesota Public Radio News' Broadcast Journalist Series presents NPR correspondent Kelly McEvers on Sept. 30 at 7 p.m. , hosted by MPR News' Tom Crann.

Known for her vivid description and powerful narrative of events, McEvers recently ended her years-long Middle East assignment that included coverage of Iraq, Syria and beyond. McEvers and her NPR colleague Deborah Amos won four major awards in 2012 for coverage of the Syrian conflict. In addition to NPR, her radio work has appeared on PRI/Chicago Public Radio's This American Life, NPR's Hearing Voices and On the Media, American Public Media's Weekend America, and the CBC. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books Online, The Washington Monthly, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is a founder of Six Billion, an online magazine that was a regular feature at Harvard University's Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism.

Co-sponsored by Thomson Reuters and the University of St. Thomas' College of Arts and Sciences and Communication and Journalism Department, the Broadcast Journalist Series, now in its 19th year, commissions renowned journalists for a 24-hour residency four times a year. This year's series continues on Monday, Nov. 4, with a conversation with NPR White House Correspondent Ari Shapiro. Visit the MPR website for tickets and information.

WHERE: O'Shaughnessy Educational Center at the University of St. Thomas, 2115 Summit Ave., St. Paul

TICKETS: $12/MPR members and $15/general public. University of St Thomas and ACTC students, faculty and staff can attend the evening events for free with valid student/faculty/staff ID presented at the door/day of show.

Call the MPR Box Office for tickets at (651) 290-1200 or in person at The Fitzgerald Theater, 10 Exchange St., St. Paul, MN Box office hours: Tuesday-Friday: Noon-5 pm. Tickets are also available through Ticketmaster online, by phone at (800) 982-2787 or in person at any Ticketmaster outlet.

About the Broadcast Journalist Series
Now in its 19th season, Minnesota Public Radio News' 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 through interviews with a Minnesota Public Radio host.

The Broadcast Journalist Series is part of MPR's commitment to provide access to the people that create content on our airwaves. One of the longest lasting and most prolific visiting journalist programs in the public radio system, the Broadcast Journalist Series presentation at University of St. Thomas is recorded for broadcast on MPR News.