McCarthey Family Lecture Features NPR's Daniel Schorr
- September 17, 2009
The McCarthey Family Foundation 4th Annual Lecture Series presents: In Praise of Independent Journalism featuring NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr and Roxanna Saberi, the Iranian-American journalist who was captured and imprisoned in Iran for 100 days in early 2009. They will discuss "Freedom of the Press: At What Cost?" Join Phil and Sandy McCarthey and the Rowland Hall community for an enlightening evening on Saturday, October 10th, at 7 p.m. on the McCarthey Campus, 720 South Guardsman Way. (Open to the public at no charge; doors open at 6:15 p.m.). (Located in the Dining Hall on the Northwest side of the campus)
ABOUT Roxanna Saberi
A political prisoner caught in the middle of a dramatic political struggle between Iran and the U.S., Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi captured the attention of the world when reports surfaced of her imprisonment in Iran. Abducted by four men early one morning in January 2009 and placed in solitary confinement, Ms. Saberi, who was working as a freelance journalist in Tehran, contributing to NPR and the BBC among others, was falsely accused of spying for the United States. Ms. Saberi, a former Miss North Dakota, who led an all-American life before moving to Iran was sentenced to eight years in prison. Her battle for freedom would last 100 days before an appeals court released her following an international uproar. In the midst of reaching out to Iran to start a dialogue after decades of political deadlock, the Obama administration harshly criticized Iran over her imprisonment and there was speculation that Iranian President Ahmadinejad intervened on her behalf as a diplomatic overture.
ABOUT Daniel Schorr
Veteran reporter Daniel Schorr, the last of Edward R. Murrow's legendary CBS team still fully active in journalism, currently interprets national and international events as senior news analyst for NPR.
Schorr's career of more than six decades has earned him many awards for journalistic excellence, including three Emmys, and decorations from European heads of state. He has also been honored by civil liberties groups and professional organizations for his defense of the First Amendment.
His analysis of current issues is broadened by his firsthand perspective on recent history. At home, he has covered government controversies from Senator Joseph McCarthy's hearings in 1953 to the Clinton impeachment hearings in 1998 and 1999. Abroad, he has observed superpower summits from the Eisenhower-Krushchev meeting in Geneva in 1955 to the Reagan-Gorbachev conference in Moscow in 1988.
Schorr's twenty-year career as a foreign correspondent began in 1946. Having served in US Army intelligence during World War II, he began writing from Western Europe for the Christian Science Monitor and later The New York Times, witnessing postwar reconstruction, the Marshall Plan, and the creation of the NATO alliance.
In 1972, the Watergate break-in brought Schorr a full-time assignment as CBS' chief Watergate correspondent. Schorr's exclusive reports and on-the-scene coverage at the Senate Watergate hearings earned him his three Emmys. He unexpectedly found himself a part of his own story when the hearings turned up a Nixon "enemies list" with his name on it and evidence that the President had ordered that he be investigated by the FBI. This "abuse of a Federal agency" figured as one count in the Bill of Impeachment on which Nixon would have been tried had he not resigned in August of 1974.
In 1979, Schorr was asked by Ted Turner to help create the Cable News Network, serving in Washington as its senior correspondent until 1985, when he left in a dispute over an effort to limit his editorial independence. Since then, Schorr has
worked primarily for NPR, contributing regularly toAll Things Considered, Weekend Edition Saturday, Weekend Edition Sunday, and
NPR live coverage of breaking news.
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