Attacks on the Press – Not Just Abroad

Terry Anderson

Thursday, 15 Apr 2004 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union

Terry Anderson was a correspondent in Lebanon when he taken hostage by Shiite militants and held for seven years. He and his wife, Madeleine Bassil, wrote the national best seller "Den of Lions" about his experience. He also wrote and narrated the prize-winning CNN and PBS documentary "Return to the Den of Lions" about his return to Lebanon and that country's recovery from its 16-year civil war. He taught journalism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and Ohio University's Scripps School of Journalism. He is honorary Co-Chairman with Walter Cronkite of the Committee to Protect Journalists and has received numerous awards for journalism and charitable work, including the first Free Spirit Award from the Freedom Forum. Ann Cooper is executive director of Committee to Protect Journalists. She previously worked as a reporter in the former Soviet Union, Africa, and Washington, D.C. Appointed as NPR's first Moscow bureau chief in 1987, Cooper spent five years covering the tumultuous events of the times, including the failed coup attempt in Moscow. She co-edited a book of first-person accounts of that siege, Russia at the Barricades. She also covered Beijing and the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement, and Johannesburg, South Africa, where her coverage won NPR an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in broadcast journalism. She has taught radio and international reporting at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is herself a journalism graduate of Iowa State University. Larry Heinzerling has worked for the Associated Press for 35 years as a reporter, editor, chief of bureau, corporate executive and currently as deputy international editor for World Services. In the 1980s he took on a secret role for almost three years as journalist-diplomat in AP's behind-the-scenes efforts to free Terry Anderson from captivity as a hostage in Beirut.