2007.08.31: August 31, 2007: Headlines: COS - Kenya: Diplomacy: Journalism: US Embassy in Dubai: Discuss an Independent and Responsible Media with Emmy Award-Winning Journalist Elizabeth O. Colton (RPCV Kenya)
Peace Corps Online:
Directory:
Kenya:
Peace Corps Kenya :
Peace Corps Kenya: Newest Stories:
2009.09.18: September 18, 2009: Headlines: COS - Kenya: Diplomacy: Law: Discrimination: Civil Rights: Reuters: Kenya RPCV Dr. Elizabeth O. Colton Sues Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for Age Discrimination :
2007.08.31: August 31, 2007: Headlines: COS - Kenya: Diplomacy: Journalism: US Embassy in Dubai: Discuss an Independent and Responsible Media with Emmy Award-Winning Journalist Elizabeth O. Colton (RPCV Kenya)
Discuss an Independent and Responsible Media with Emmy Award-Winning Journalist Elizabeth O. Colton (RPCV Kenya)
Prior to joining the U.S. Foreign Service in 2000, Colton worked as a journalist in both broadcast and print media. An Emmy Award-winning producer for ABC News overseas, she was also Newsweek's Cairo, Egypt, bureau chief, National Public Radio's diplomatic correspondent in Washington, ABC Radio's Mid East correspondent, NBC Radio's correspondent during the Desert Storm war, and executive editor of 10 Virginia newspapers whose flagship publication won the national newspaper of excellence award.
Discuss an Independent and Responsible Media with Emmy Award-Winning Journalist Elizabeth O. Colton (RPCV Kenya)
Discuss an Independent and Responsible Media with Emmy Award-Winning Journalist Elizabeth O. Colton
Date: Friday, 31 August 2007
Time: 17:00 UAE Time
An independent and responsible media is critical to healthy democracies. Elizabeth Colton, the press attaché to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, and a former professor of mass communications and Emmy Award-winning journalist, will discuss the relationship between government and the media and good journalistic practices.
Guest Biography: Elizabeth Colton currently serves as the press attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. She also has served as the press attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, and as a public affairs officer at the U.S. embassies in Khartoum, Sudan, and Algiers, Algeria. Prior to joining the U.S. Foreign Service in 2000, Colton worked as a journalist in both broadcast and print media. An Emmy Award-winning producer for ABC News overseas, she was also Newsweek's Cairo, Egypt, bureau chief, National Public Radio's diplomatic correspondent in Washington, ABC Radio's Mid East correspondent, NBC Radio's correspondent during the Desert Storm war, and executive editor of 10 Virginia newspapers whose flagship publication won the national newspaper of excellence award. In the 1990s, Colton was professor of mass communications, politics and journalism at Shenandoah University and helped establish mass communication, media studies and journalism programs at other universities around the world. Colton also has worked as a press secretary and media adviser for several U.S. presidential, gubernatorial and congressional campaigns and is the author of a book on American presidential politics and the news media.
Links to Related Topics (Tags):
Headlines: August, 2007; Peace Corps Kenya; Directory of Kenya RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Kenya RPCVs; Diplomacy; Journalism
When this story was posted in November 2009, this was on the front page of PCOL:
Peace Corps Online The Independent News Forum serving Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
| Memo to Incoming Director Williams PCOL has asked five prominent RPCVs and Staff to write a memo on the most important issues facing the Peace Corps today. Issues raised include the independence of the Peace Corps, political appointments at the agency, revitalizing the five-year rule, lowering the ET rate, empowering volunteers, removing financial barriers to service, increasing the agency's budget, reducing costs, and making the Peace Corps bureaucracy more efficient and responsive. Latest: Greetings from Director Williams |
Read the stories and leave your comments.
Some postings on Peace Corps Online are provided to the individual members of this group without permission of the copyright owner for the non-profit purposes of criticism, comment, education, scholarship, and research under the "Fair Use" provisions of U.S. Government copyright laws and they may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner. Peace Corps Online does not vouch for the accuracy of the content of the postings, which is the sole responsibility of the copyright holder.
Story Source: US Embassy in Dubai
This story has been posted in the following forums: : Headlines; COS - Kenya; Diplomacy; Journalism
PCOL45137
06