My Life As... A War Correspondent
Thursday, April 3rd
7:00 pm
Javits Lecture Hall Room 102
Matt McAllester
For 13 years, Matt McAllester was a reporter and foreign correspondent
for Newsday. He covered conflicts in Kosovo, Israel and the
Palestinian territories, Afghanistan and Macedonia. He also reported
from Iran, Iraq, Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey and Nigeria.
In 2003, he was imprisoned for eight days by Saddam Hussein’s
secret police in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison.
He has written two books - on the wars in Kosovo and Iraq - and is working on a third, a memoir of his mother. He has made two documentaries for British television. McAllester left Newsday at the end of 2007 and now is a contributing editor at Details magazine. He is joining Global News Enterprises, an online foreign news venture that will launch early next year.
McAllester has won many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for his part in Newsday’s coverage of the crash of TWA Flight 800.
For more information, contact the School of Journalism at
631.632.7403 or journalism@stonybrook.edu
