Journalist and best-selling author, Kimberly Dozier, presents: The Media in the Age of the Internet
Date & Time: March 04, 2015 | 09:00 PM – 10:15 PM
Location: Lewis Katz Building 116
Kimberly Dozier, CNN and Daily Beast contributor and award-winning correspondent for The Associated Press and CBS News, will will present a talk on "Media in the Age of the Internet" as part of the Penn State School of International Affairs’ spring colloquium: Current Policy Challenges. Dozier, the 2014-2015 General Omar N. Bradley Chair in Strategic Leadership, will discuss the role of media in policymaking, and how to be a smart consumer of the news.
Professor and U.S. Ambassador (Ret.) Dennis Jett, organizes the semester long event to bring thought leaders on topics ranging from food security to terrorism. The program features 14 speakers. Colloquium topics vary depending upon the current issues of the day. The course surveys some major transnational social problems confronting the world, suggested by the Copenhagen Consensus, such as: climate change; communicable diseases; conflict and arms proliferation; access to education; financial instability; governance and corruption; malnutrition and hunger; migration; sanitation and access to clean water; and subsidies and trade barriers. The course involves team teaching and guest lecturers. The course lectures are open to the public and made available via webcast.
About Kimberly Dozier
Dozier covered the war in Iraq for CBS News from 2003 until May 29, 2006, when she was critically wounded in a car bombing that killed the U.S. Army officer that her team was filming, Capt. James Alex Funkhouser, his Iraqi translator "Sam," and her CBS colleagues, cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan. In her 2011 memoir, Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Survive, and Get Back to the Fight, Dozier recounts the attack, her survival, and recovery, shedding light on the ordeal faced by countless combat veterans and civilians.
Prior to serving as the Bradley Chair, Dozier covered intelligence and special operations for The Associated Press out of Washington. She has received a Peabody award, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, and four American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) Gracie Awards. She is the first woman journalist to receive the National Medal of Honor Society's Tex McCrary Award for her coverage of Iraq.