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October 16 : Washington, D.C.
Location:
Choate Room, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace building, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Nearest metro: Dupont Circle, Nearest cross-street: 18th Street
Time:
6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Discussion and reception
Introductions:
Jon Sawyer, Executive Director, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Ted Genoways, Editor, Virginia Quarterly Review
Panelists:
Daniel Alarcón, Associate Editor of the Peruvian Monthly Etiqueta Negra
Kelly Hearn, Buenos Aires-based freelance reporter
Gabrielle Weiss, videographer and photojournalist
Charles Lane, radio journalist
Hearn, Lane and Weiss all received Pulitzer Center grants. These journalists have been published in a variety of media outlets: The New Yorker, National Geographic, The Washington Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Foreign Exchange, and Voice of America.
To read the panelists' articles from the Fall 2007 edition of Virginia Quarterly Review, click here.
Discussion Topics:
Peru's Petroleum Play: A gas and oil boom is transforming some of the country's environmentally sensitive regions.
Soybean Wars: Booming demand has fueled a soybean frenzy, bringing wealth, poverty, and environmental risk.
Argentina's "Ghost Train": Buenos Aires trash-collectors fight for their jobs.
For more information about the DC event on October 16th, or to RSVP, contact Janeen Heath at jheath@pulitzercenter.org.
**Space is limited so please RSVP early.
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