Gena Asher | Sept. 27, 2007
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| National Geographic’s Lisa Ling visits Wednesday. |
Broadcast journalist Lisa Ling, host of National Geographic’s award-winning series, Explorer, visits Wednesday, 7 p.m. at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. Her talk is the second of the School of Journalism’s Fall Speaker Series.
Ling will address “National Geographic Reports: A Global Perspective,” sharing her adventures with the program and her personal success story. For the program, Ling has covered the drug war in Columbia, China’s one-child policy and female suicide bombers in Chechnya and Israel’s occupied territories.
Ling also is special correspondent for Oprah, which sent her to cover the Lord’s Resistance Army and the crisis of AIDS orphans in Uganda, bride-burning in India and gang rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ling will address “National Geographic Reports: A Global Perspective,” sharing her adventures with the program and her personal success story. For the program, Ling has covered the drug war in Columbia, China’s one-child policy and female suicide bombers in Chechnya and Israel’s occupied territories.
Ling also is special correspondent for Oprah, which sent her to cover the Lord’s Resistance Army and the crisis of AIDS orphans in Uganda, bride-burning in India and gang rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
While in Bloomington, Ling will have lunch with students and will tape a radio interview at WFIU. Associate professor Owen V. Johnson will conduct the interview for the weekly program, Profiles, to be broadcast later this year.
As for her personal success, Ling advocates having an open mind and heart to the issues affecting people around the globe.
Her talk is free and open to the public.
As for her personal success, Ling advocates having an open mind and heart to the issues affecting people around the globe.
Her talk is free and open to the public.
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