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NPR President Kevin Klose and Iraq Panel Hightlight SAIS/IRP Conference

April 19 - 20, 2007

	NPR President and IRP Advisory Board member Kevin Klose

Kevin Klose, president of National Public Radio, spoke at SAIS on Thursday, April 19 about "The Future of International News in the U.S. Media."

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Before joining NPR in 1998, Klose was formerly president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and previously spent 25 years as an editor and correspondent at The Washington Post. A member of the Advisory Board of the IRP, Klose spoke as part of a 2-day 9th anniversary conference of the International Reporting Project.

Klose's talk was be preceded by a panel discussion on "Covering Iraq," made up of IRP alumni journalists Rajiv Chandrasekaran, assistant managing editor of The Washington Post; Chris Hondros, photojournalist with Getty Images; Quil Lawrence, foreign correspondent with PRI/BBC’s “The World”; Matt O’Neill, co-director of HBO's “Baghdad ER;” and Raney Aronson, producer for PBS’s “FRONTLINE” (moderator).

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Click here to select information on past conferences Conference 2007: "The Future of International News in the U.S. Media" Conference 2005: "Looking to the Future" Conference 2003: "New Eyes, New Voices" Conference 2002: "International News and the Media: The Impact of Sept. 11" Conference 2001: "A New Look at the World: Digital Video and International News"