Events Detail
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Reporters Without Borders Discussion with David Rohde, Emilio Soto Gutierrez, and Bruce Shapiro
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Date:May 03, 2010
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Time:6:00-7:45 p.m.
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Description:
On May 3rd, please join Reporters Without Borders along with New York Times reporter David Rohde, exiled Mexican journalist Emilio Soto Gutierrez, and Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center For Journalism, for a discussion on the experience of journalists in conflict zones and the physical, psychological and legal safety concerns they face.
Find out more about the panelists:
David Rohde, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the New York Times, was kidnaped in Afghanistan along with his fixer in November 2008, and held for over seven months before escaping. Read his account of the experience.
Emilio Soto Gutierrez is the first Mexican journalist to apply for asylum in the US. Soto Gutierrez, a correspondent for the daily newspaper "El Diario" in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, received death threats in June 2008. As a result he crossed the border into Texas with his teenage son in June 2008 and spent seven month in an Immigration Detention Center in El Paso Texas, before being released. Read more about his story.
Bruce Shapiro is the Executive Director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a project that encourages informed, innovative and ethical news reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy. Along with his work at the Dart Center, he is a contributing editor for the Nation, an investigative journalist, a professor and author whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian and numerous other publications worldwide.
All events are open to the public unless otherwise specified.
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Location:20 Cooper Square, 7th floor commons