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Contact: Brant Houston, 573-882-2042

Updated Feb. 22, 2002

Anderson to speak at IRE-sponsored event

Columbia, Mo. - Terry Anderson, a former AP reporter who was kidnapped and held nearly seven years in Lebanon, will speak at the Missouri School of Journalism in an event sponsored by Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

The presentation, "Dangerous Assignments: Press Freedom and Journalists Under Fire," will be Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 6 p.m. at Fisher Auditorium in the Missouri School of Journalism. The Journalism School's international office is helping coordinate the event, which is open to the public.

Joining Anderson on the panel is Javed Nazir, a Pakistani journalist who, with the help of CPJ and the Knight Foundation, is a fellow at the University of Michigan this year. Nazir escaped Pakistan after being threatened for what some considered blasphemous articles.

Also on the panel is Alex Lupis, CPJ's program coordinator for Europe and Central Asia. Brant Houston, IRE's executive director and an associate professor in the journalism school, will moderate the panel.

"We are pleased to host this CPJ event, especially at a time when journalists are risking their lives to cover the war on terrorism," Houston said.

IRE originally scheduled the event for Sept. 12, but postponed it after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Threats and attacks on journalists have steadily increased since then, with anthrax being mailed to media outlets and journalists coming under fire in the Afghanistan region.

Nine journalists have been killed in the region since Sept. 11. Recently, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan.

The event is one in a series that CPJ conducting at universities.

"This year, CPJ is celebrating its 20th anniversary and its stellar record of success in defending the rights of journalists and media outlets throughout the world," the organization stated. "CPJ remains committed to the principle that everyone has the right to receive and impart information and ideas through any medium, regardless of frontiers."

IRE, based at the Missouri School of Journalism, was founded in 1975 and provides training, resources and networking to journalists around the world while doing all it can to uphold high standards for the profession.