Event
Jon Sawyer at St. Louis University on South American Media Coverage
Event Date:
October 2, 2008 | 5:00 PMLa Plaza Mayor of The Language Villa and the Dept. of Modern & Classical Languages invite you to a presentation by Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer
• Sawyer worked at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 31 years before becoming the founding director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
• The Pulitzer Center sponsors reporting around the world, focusing on issues that have gone under-reported, misreported – or not reported at all.
• The Center's Global Gateway brings journalists into high school and college classrooms.
• Recent projects have focused on oil and the Amazon, coca in Bolivia, the battle to preserve Guatemala's Mayan forest, and the impact of HIV/AIDS in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica.
October 2 at 5:00 p.m.
Pere Marquette Gallery
(DuBourg Hall, 2nd floor)
This event is open to the general public.
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