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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="4"><b>Journalism and foreign policy: covering the Middle East</b></font></p>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Reporting on the foreign affairs agenda of a major world power can have extraordinary personal and political challenges. Veteran New York Times and Reuters journalist Carol Giacomo joins Media@Sydney to talk about the demands of foreign policy
journalism and her strategies for dealing with contentious debates, such as </span>the backlash against the recent academic boycott of Israel.<span lang="EN-AU"></span></p>
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<font size="3"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Verdana">Date:</span></b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Garamond"><span style="font-family:Verdana"> Monday 10th March, 2014<br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana">Carol Giacomo </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana">is a foreign affairs editorial writer for The New York Times. She is a former diplomatic correspondent for Reuters in Washington,
where she covered foreign policy for the international wire service for more than two decades. As a Reuters correspondent she traveled over one million miles to more than 100 countries with eight Secretaries of State and various other senior U.S. officials. </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana; font-size:16px">She
joined The New York Times editorial board in August 2007. </span><span style="font-family:Verdana; font-size:12pt">She won the Georgetown University Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting in 2009. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1999-2000
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<span style="font-family:Arial"><span style="font-family:Verdana">In the fall semester of 2013 Carol was the Ferris Professor in Journalism at Princeton University, teaching editorial writing on international issues. She has been a guest lecturer at the U.S.
National War College and other academic institutions. Born and raised in Connecticut, she holds a B.A. in English Literature from Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts. She began her professional journalism career at the Lowell Sun and later worked for the
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