Three award-winning journalists will discuss mounting threats to the global food supply and the challenges of reporting them on Thursday, Oct. 15, at UNC-Chapel Hill. “Hungry? Frontline on the Threats to the Global Food Supply” will also feature new documentary footage reporting on the global food crisis from Africa, Asia and Central America.
Three award-winning journalists will discuss mounting threats to the global food supply and the challenges of reporting them on Thursday, Oct. 15, at UNC-Chapel Hill. “Hungry? Frontline on the Threats to the Global Food Supply” will also feature new documentary footage reporting on the global food crisis from Africa, Asia and Central America.
The event, free and open to the public, will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the FedEx Global Education Center’s Nelson Mandela Auditorium. A reception with the journalists will follow.
The event is a project of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a nonprofit center that provides travel grants and other resources to promote independent international journalism covering under-reported topics, encourage high-quality international reporting, and create platforms that reach broad and diverse audiences.
Peter A. Coclanis, UNC’s associate provost for international affairs and Albert R. Newsome Professor of History, will moderate. Featured journalists are:
- Fred de Sam Lazaro, director of the Project for Under-Told Stories at St. John's University, in Collegeville, Minn.;
- Samuel Loewenberg, a journalist based in Washington, D.C.; and
- Sharon Schmickle, freelance journalist with 27 years of experience covering local, national and international news on a wide range of issues.
UNC sponsors for the event are the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), Center for Global Initiatives and UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
For more information, contact Julia Kruse at the Center for International Business Education and Research at (919) 962-7843 or ciber@unc.edu, or visit www.kenaninstitute.unc.edu/hungry.
Kenan Institute contact: Cyndy Falgout, (919) 401-3548
News Services contact: Susan Houston, (919) 962-8415, susan_houston@unc.edu