Is the Press Still Free? A Conversation with Cynthia McFadden ’78, H’12 of NBC News

March 27, 2017 | 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM | Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium

Award-winning journalist Cynthia McFadden ’78, H ’12 is the senior investigative correspondent at NBC News. She has reported from hot spots around the world, focusing on human rights abuses. In the last year, her work has helped lead to the president of the Maldives’ release from political imprisonment and to the commuting of Chelsea Manning’s sentence by President Obama. In the past six months alone, McFadden and her team have broken dozens of national security stories relating to Russian involvement in the US election, terrorism, and Yemen. Prior to NBC, she reported for twenty years for ABC News, the last ten of which as co-anchor of Nightline. A summa cum laude graduate of Bowdoin, she holds a JD degree from the Columbia University School of Law. Her work has been honored with Emmy, Peabody, duPont, and Foreign Press awards, among others.

Harriet Fisher ’17 and Marina Affo ’17 will moderate the discussion and facilitate questions from the audience.

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