Journalist to speak about ‘Decoding North Korea’
November 8, 2010
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11/8/10
Journalist Bradley Martin will speak at a free public lecture, “Decoding North Korea,” Wednesday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. in the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center auditorium in downtown Fairbanks.
Martin has spent most of his career as an Asia correspondent and bureau chief for news organizations that include Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, The Baltimore Sun and Asia Times. After spending his formative years in Marietta, Ga., he majored in history at Princeton University and attended Emory University Law School. He was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his daily reporting and received the Asia Pacific Special Book Prize for “Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty.” The book draws on extensive interviews with defectors and is considered among the best books written about the country and its leaders.
Martin has been a visiting professor of journalism at Ohio University and Louisiana State University, a Fulbright fellow in Japan and Korea, a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford and journalist in residence at the East-West Center in Honolulu and Dartmouth College. Currently based in Nagano, Japan, and Bangkok, Thailand, he analyzes developments in North Korea for Global Post.
Martin’s lecture is part of the Snedden Guest Lecture Series. Helen Snedden established the Snedden Chair and lecture series in 2003 in memory of her late husband, the former publisher and owner of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.
Since its establishment, the lecture series has allowed the UAF journalism department to bring nationally known journalists to Fairbanks to speak to students, local journalists and the public.
ADDITIONAL CONTACTS: UAF journalism department at 907-474-7761.
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