WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2008

PUBLIC PROGRAM

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The Foreign Correspondent: Connecting Chicago and the World

with

John Maxwell Hamilton, dean and LSU Foundation Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor at the Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University

Richard C. Longworth, senior fellow, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

As globalization and new media make the flow of news across national boundaries immediate and voluminous, the role of foreign correspondents as mediators between foreign realities and the public becomes a critical aspect of how journalism serves the public interest. Edward Price Bell invented the job of foreign correspondent when he opened the London bureau of the Chicago Daily News in 1900. His autobiography, describing the birth of the profession of foreign correspondents, seeks to illuminate how effective correspondence was in providing Chicago’s readers with previously inaccessible information. Bell’s story, however, lay unpublished in the Newberry Library until John Maxwell Hamilton edited and published it as part of a series of memoirs and books by pioneering foreign correspondents. Richard C. Longworth, prize-winning Chicago Tribune foreign correspondent for twenty years, will join Professor Hamilton for a conversation about how the role of the foreign correspondent has changed, and about Chicago’s unique place in global media.

Cosponsored with The Newberry Library.

Journalism of the Highest Realm: The Memoir of Edward Price Bell, Pioneering Foreign Correspondent for the Chicago Daily News by John Maxwell Hamilton and Jaci Cole, and Richard C. Longworth's new book, Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism, will be available for purchase at the Newberry Library's A.C. McClurg Bookstore. Book signing will follow the program

The Newberry Library
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610

6:00 p.m. Presentation and discussion

Admission is to the program is free.

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