Former NPR International Correspondent Corey Flintoff will give a timely talk titled “Resurgent Russia: the misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and outright lies that cloud America’s discussions about Russia.”
Corey Flintoff (photo by Doby Photography for NPR; from the WSHU website)
The event will take place at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 5 at the Fairfield Theatre Company’s Stage One, 70 Sanford St., across from the Fairfield Railroad Station in Fairfield.
Flintoff has just returned from Russia where he spent 4 years reporting on the Western world’s biggest challenger. He covered the Ukrainian revolution, Russia’s seizure of Crimea, the war in eastern Ukraine, the downing of Malaysian Airlines’ Flight 17, and the Olympic sports doping scandal, among other key events.
The talk will be moderated by Ebong Udoma, WSHU’s Senior Political Reporter and host of “Capitol Avenue.” The event is part of WSHU’s acclaimed “Join the Conversation” lecture series, and will feature an audience Q & A.
General admission tickets are $15; a limited number of benefit tickets are available for $500/pair and include reserved VIP seating and a post-event meet & greet with Corey Flintoff. All tickets are available at wshu.org.
Corey Flintoff’s journalism career has taken him to more than 50 countries, most recently to cover the civil war in Libya, the revolution in Egypt and the war in Afghanistan. His appearance is generously sponsored by the McKinnis Family of Fairfield.
About Corey Flintoff
Corey Flintoff is NPR’s international correspondent based in Moscow. His journalism career has taken him to more than 50 countries, most recently to cover the civil war in Libya, the revolution in Egypt and the war in Afghanistan.
After joining NPR in 1990, Flintoff worked for many years as a newscaster during All Things Considered. In 2005, he became part of the NPR team covering the Iraq War, where he embedded with U.S. military units fighting insurgents and hunting roadside bombs.
Flintoff’s reporting from Iraq includes stories on sectarian killings, government corruption, the Christian refugee crisis and the destruction of Iraq’s southern marshes. In 2010, he traveled to Haiti to report on the massive earthquake its aftermath. Two years before, he reported on his stint on a French warship chasing pirates off the coast of Somalia.
One of Flintoff’s favorite side jobs at NPR is standing in for Carl Kasell during those rare times when the venerable scorekeeper takes a break from Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!
Before NPR, Flintoff served as the executive producer and host of Alaska News Nightly, a daily news magazine produced by the Alaska Public Radio Network in Anchorage. His coverage of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill was recognized with the 1989 Corporation for Public Broadcasting Award.
In 1977, Flintoff got his start in public radio working at at KYUK-AM/TV, in Bethel, Alaska. KYUK is a bilingual English-Yup’ik Eskimo station and Flintoff learned just enough Yup’ik to announce the station identification.
He wrote and produced a number of television documentaries about Alaskan life, including “They Never Asked Our Fathers” and “Eyes of the Spirit,” which have aired on PBS and are now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution.
He tried his hand at commercial herring fishing, dog-mushing, fiction writing and other pursuits, but failed to break out of the radio business.
Flintoff has a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree from the University of Chicago, both in English literature. In 2011, he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Drexel University.
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