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Bob Giles, Curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University

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  • Description: Friday Forum: "Had U.S. news organizations not shut down their foreign news bureaus and brought home correspondents from around the world, Americans would have had a deeper understanding long before September 11th of the building animosity in the Arab world to the policies of our government," according to Robert H. Giles, Pulitzer prize winning journalist and curator, The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, "where he directs a mid-career fellowship program consisting of one year of intensive study in a journalistic specialty for working journalists throughout the world." Mr. Giles received a Pulitzer Prize for his editing of the Akron Beacon Journal in 1971 for the coverage of the Kent State University shootings and The Detroit News in 1994 for its coverage of a scandal in the Michigan House Fiscal Agency. The Thomas & Marguerite Campbell Forum.
  • Date: 4/4/2003
  • Program Length: 00:59:01