International Journalist to Discuss
“‘New’ News Out of Africa” at UC San Diego

January 21, 2009

By Pat JaCoby

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, award-winning international journalist on PBS and CNN, will appear as keynote speaker Feb. 6 at the culmination of activities marking the 20th anniversary of Eleanor Roosevelt College at the University of California, San Diego.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

The journalist will discuss New News out of Africa: The Struggle for Democracy and Human Rights at 7 p.m. in the Price Center East Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public.

As CNN’s former Johannesburg bureau chief and correspondent, Hunter-Gault introduced viewers to the people of the diverse continent of Africa, a country she once called “one of the greatest challenges that we in the media face.”  She spent 20 years at PBS as national correspondent for The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, where she also anchored the award-winning newsmagazine on human rights, “Rights and Wrongs.”

Hunter-Gault is the author of In My Place, a memoir of her role in the civil rights movement as the first black woman admitted to the University of Georgia. She is the recipient of two Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards.

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