AN INSIDE LOOK AT FOREIGN REPORTING FROM THE USA
Join the Washington D.C. pro chapter of the Society of the Professional Journalists for a tour of the studios of Voice of America, followed by a briefing by its executive editor and some of its correspondents, from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 14, at VOA offices, 330 Independence Avenue SW in Washington.
Come to the Wilbur Cohen Building’s C Street SW entrance, between 3rd and 4th Streets SW. Bring a brown bag lunch and a beverage and meet us beforehand in the Conference Room 2340 at 11:30 a.m. Tour will start at noon. Briefing will start at 12:45 p.m.
There is no charge for the program, but reservations are required by 3 p.m. on Friday, April 10. Since this is a government building, you will need a photo ID for admittance. Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inside-look-at-foreign-reporting-from-the-usa-tickets-16344537953
Our host for the briefing in Room 1528A will be Steve Redisch, executive editor and chief operating officer of VOA. He supervises daily operations and activities of VOA’s news, programs, language services, broadcast operations and internet departments. Prior to coming to VOA, he served as CNN’s Washington, D.C., bureau chief and executive producer-White House. In his 20 years with CNN, he oversaw the Bureau’s multimillion dollar budget and earned two Emmy Awards and a National Headliner Award.
Other speakers at the briefing will include Masood Farivar, chief of the Afghan service, and Sonya Green, chief of the “English to Africa” Project.
An Afghanistan-born writer, journalist and author (“Confessions of a Mullah Warrior,” Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009), Farivar moved with his family to Pakistan in 1983. In 1994, he obtained a degree from Harvard University and worked as a reporter for the Dow Jones Newswires. Based in Washington, he is chief of VOA’s Afghan Service. He was previously with Pajhwok Afghan News and was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University.
Green, who was also educated at Harvard, holds a graduate degree in journalism from the University of Nairobi. At VOA, she manages a team of 48 writers/editors/producers that program the radio, television and Internet news, features and entertainment for an audience of 25 million people in Africa, in the English language. Text, audio and video are available at www.voaafrica.com.
You can reach VOA on the blue/orange/silver or green/yellow lines of METRO. Exit at the L’Enfant Plaza stop, unto Independence Street and Maryland Avenue. Walk east to VOA’s C Street entrance. We invite the many area university and college students in this area to join Pro Chapter members for an interesting program. Come and network!
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