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Emmy Award-winning journalist Elizabeth O. Colton discusses independent and responsible media
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Date: Wednesday, 5 September 2007
Time: 9:00 AM EST (13:00 GMT)
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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 Mideast 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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