The Globe and Mail foreign correspondent Stephanie Nolen will deliver the 8th annual Dalton Camp Lecture in Journalism at St. Thomas University on Wednesday, September 29 at 8 pm in the Kinsella Auditorium. The free public lecture will be taped for broadcast on CBC Radio’s Ideas.
In her talk, “Shrapnel, Snakes and Blistering Rage: On the Occupational Hazards of a Foreign Correspondent,” Nolen will talk about her experience working abroad as a reporter.
“I filed from the first war I covered on a mammoth Telex machine; 15 years later I live-Tweet from my phone in war zones,” she said.
“Many things have changed with the ways we cover news: the automatic authority of a foreign correspondent is gone, and so is most of the travel budget. But some things don't change: the worst abuses and injustices attract the least attention, are the hardest stories to tell, and the biggest challenge to a journalist's 'sacred' objectivity.”
Stephanie Nolen is the South Asia correspondent for the Globe and Mail. She has reported from more than 40 countries around the world and is a 10-time nominee for the National Newspaper Award, Canada's top reporting prize. She is a five-time NNA winner, for coverage that has taken her from war zones to AIDS clinics to camel races, and a three-time winner of the Amnesty International Media Award.
A recent citation noted that her journalism has a “combination of creative brilliance, humanitarian compassion, personal courage, and the relentless pursuit of truth.”
She has covered most major international conflicts of the past 15 years, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before joining the Globe in 1998, she was based in the Middle East and wrote for publications including Newsweek and the Independent of London.
Her best-selling book 28 Stories of AIDS in Africa has been published in 14 countries and six languages; it won the 2007 PEN ‘Courage’ Award and was nominated for the 2007 Governor-General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. She is also the author of Promised the Moon: the Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race (2002) and Shakespeare’s Face (2002).
The Dalton Camp Lecture in Journalism is a partnership between St. Thomas, CBC Radio and the Dalton Camp Endowment in Journalism, an initiative to enhance the education of journalism students. Past speakers were Joe Schlesinger, June Callwood, Naomi Klein, Roy MacGregor, Chantal Hebert, Ken Whyte and Sue Gardner.
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