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Discuss an Independent and Responsible Media with Emmy Award-Winning Journalist Elizabeth O. Colton
Date: Friday, 31 August 2007
Time: 17:00 UAE Time
An
independent and responsible media is critical to healthy democracies. Elizabeth
Colton, the press attaché to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, and a
former professor of mass communications and Emmy Award-winning journalist, will
discuss the relationship between government and the media and good journalistic
practices.
Guest Biography: Elizabeth Colton currently serves as the
press attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. She also has served as
the press attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, and as a public affairs
officer at the U.S. embassies in Khartoum, Sudan, and Algiers, Algeria. Prior to
joining the U.S. Foreign Service in 2000, Colton worked as a journalist in both
broadcast and print media. An Emmy Award-winning producer for ABC News overseas,
she was also Newsweek’s Cairo, Egypt, bureau chief, National Public Radio’s
diplomatic correspondent in Washington, ABC Radio’s Mid East correspondent, NBC
Radio’s correspondent during the Desert Storm war, and executive editor of 10
Virginia newspapers whose flagship publication won the national newspaper of
excellence award. In the 1990s, Colton was professor of mass communications,
politics and journalism at Shenandoah University and helped establish mass
communication, media studies and journalism programs at other universities
around the world. Colton also has worked as a press secretary and media adviser
for several U.S. presidential, gubernatorial and congressional campaigns and is
the author of a book on American presidential politics and the news
media.
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