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Four noted journalists will visit the campus during the month of February as part of a series of master's teas sponsored by Saybrook College.
The teas, which are free and open to the public, will begin at 4 p.m. at the Saybrook College master's house, 90 High St.
The series will begin with a talk by Michael Phillips, a staff reporter in the Washington, D.C., bureau of The Wall Street Journal, on Thursday, Feb 1.
Phillips writes on international economics, Third World development, foreign assistance and AIDS for the paper.
He rode with a front-line Marine infantry squad from Kuwait to Baghdad during the 2003 invasion and has returned to cover the same battalion on four other occasions since then. In 2001, he covered U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.
Phillips is the author of the book "The Gift of Valor" about Corporal Jason Dunham, the first Marine to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War.
He travels frequently to Africa to write about, among other issues, how Africans reconcile tradition and modernity in the age of AIDS.
On Thursday, Feb. 8, Elizabeth Kolbert '83, author of "Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change" and a staff writer for The New Yorker, will speak at the second tea in the series.
Kolbert's series on global warming, "The Climate of Man," which appeared in The New Yorker in the spring of 2005, was awarded the American Association for the Advancement of Science's magazine writing award. Prior to joining the staff of The New Yorker, Kolbert was a political reporter for The New York Times.
Vanessa Gezari '97, a foreign and national correspondent at the St. Petersburg Times, will be the guest at a tea on Monday, Feb. 12.
Gezari joined the St. Petersburg Times in 2004 after nearly three years freelancing in New Delhi and Kabul, writing about politics, conflict and culture for the Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, Slate and other publications.
In 2004, she trained Afghan journalists with the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Before moving to South Asia, she was a one-year resident at the Chicago Tribune and a general assignment and city hall reporter at the Toledo Blade.
The series will conclude with a talk by Juliet Eilperin, a national reporter for The Washington Post, on Monday, Feb. 19.
Eilperin, who has covered Congress for more than a decade, is the author of "Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship Is Poisoning the House of Representatives."
Since 2004 she has covered the environment, reporting on science, policy and politics in areas including climate change, oceans and air quality. Eilperin served as the McGraw Professor of Journalism at Princeton University in 2005.
T H I S
Saybrook College to host teas
with four distinguished journalists
Michael Phillips
Elizabeth Kolbert
Vanessa Gezari
Juliet Eilperin
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