Journalism Is Not A Crime

Name: Journalism Is Not A Crime
Start: 2023-09-26T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2023-09-26T20:45:00-04:00
Location: Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall

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Lecture Alumni Open to the Public

Tue, Sep 26, 2023

7:30 PM – 8:45 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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Friends and colleagues of Evan Gershkovich ’14 are coming to the Bowdoin campus September 26 to keep the plight of the jailed Wall Street Journal reporter in the spotlight and highlight the ongoing struggle for press freedom in much of the world. Panelists include Linda Kinstler '13, A. Leroy Greason Professor of English Brock Clarke, Paul Beckett, Washington Editor of The Wall Street Journal, with Henry Laurence, Professor of Government and Asian Studies, moderating the conversation and inviting the audience to participate with questions and comments for the panel.

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Linda Kinstler '13

Paul Beckett

Paul Beckett is the Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, responsible for news across politics and government, economics, national security, the Supreme Court, financial regulation and the intersection of business and Washington. Before taking the helm of the bureau in 2017, Paul was Asia editor, in charge of the Journal’s print and digital editorial operations across the region. He moved to Hong Kong in 2013 after six years as South Asia editor, based in New Delhi.

Born and bred in Scotland and a graduate of Edinburgh University, Paul joined Dow Jones in 1990 at the Daily News of Newburyport, Mass., then part of Dow Jones’s community newspaper chain. He joined Dow Jones Newswires in 1993 and reported from New York, London, Mexico City and Washington, D.C. He joined the Journal in 1998 in New York, where he covered banking. In 2003, he moved to London as bureau chief and European finance and markets editor.

Brock Clarke

Henry Laurence

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