Journalists from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting visit campus this week to share stories from Mexico, Haiti and Bangladesh.
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Three visiting journalists from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting visit Elon University this week for a discussion on their international projects.
The Whitley Auditorium event with the theme of “Endangered Children” takes place Thursday, Sept. 27, from 7-8:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. It will include a question-and-answer period with guests who include:
Glenn Baker, documentarian: Baker will shows clips from his new documentary, “Easy Like Water,” which focuses on an innovator seeking answers to the effects of climate change. He is building schools that float on solar-powered boats to adapt to Bangladesh’s flooding.
Kem Knapp Sawyer, author: Sawyer will offer photos and an explanation of her work in Haiti, studying the lives of young people who are still living in tents two years after the devastating earthquake. She shares a story of a 13-year-old girl in “Cynthia: After the Quake.”
Dominic Bracco, photojournalist: Bracco reveals in photos the conditions for a lost generation of young people who must cope with the violence brought by cartels and their gangs that recruit from poor neighborhoods. He offers a story of one boy who chooses a clarinet over a gun in “The Clarinetist.”
The event will be moderated by Associate Professor Glenn Scott in the School of Communications with special remarks by the center’s executive director, Jon Sawyer.
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that supports work on underreported news of significance. Elon recently joined with 18 other top collegiate communications programs to engage with the center, and the Thursday event is the university’s first time to welcome speakers.
For more information, visit the center’s website at http://pulitzercenter.org/