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2/4/08

SLU Hosts Talk By NY Times Editor On War Coverage

CANTON - New York Times Deputy Foreign Editor Ethan Bronner will give a talk titled "War and Terror: How the New York Times Covers Today's Big Stories in the Middle East" on Thursday, February 14, at 8 p.m. in Gulick Theatre at St. Lawrence University. The talk, part of the University's Contemporary Issues Forum, is open to the public free of charge.

Bronner has been deputy foreign editor of the Times since 2004. Together with the foreign editor, he oversees the paper's 43 foreign correspondents and its foreign report, which appears in the first half of the first section every day. He has a special emphasis on the Middle East. Previously, Bronner was assistant editorial page editor, where he concentrated on foreign affairs and education. He was the paper's education editor from 1999 until 2001, and a national education correspondent from 1997 until 1999. In March 2008, he is moving to Jerusalem for several years to become bureau chief.

Throughout the autumn of 2001, Bronner worked as an editor in the Times' investigative unit, focusing on the attacks of Sept. 11. A series of articles on Al Qaeda that he helped edit was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. He is the author of Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America, which was chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the 25 best books of 1989. The book was reissued in October 2007 by Union Square Press.

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