Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series welcomes NPR intelligence correspondent Tom Gjelten to Macalester College on Tuesday, April 22.

Gjelten, a University of Minnesota graduate, will explore the international and security issues facing today's world, from the CIA to Cuba, drawing upon more than 20 years of international and domestic reporting experience.

WHAT: Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series welcomes NPR's Tom Gjelten for an in-depth look into worldwide security issues.

WHEN: Tuesday, April 22, 7–8:30 p.m.

WHERE: Weyerhaeuser Chapel, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Ave, St. Paul

ADMISSION: FREE, but tickets are required. Tickets can be found at all four Twin Cities Bibelot Shops locations beginning April 1.

TUNE IN: The event will be recorded for possible broadcast (date TBA).

MEDIA: Print, broadcast and internet journalists are welcome to attend. Please contact Jennifer Haugh at (651) 290-1369 or jhaugh@mpr.org for accommodations, including a media mult box.

About Tom Gjelten
NPR intelligence correspondent Tom Gjelten has reported on international, economic and security issues for more than 20 years. Throughout his broadcast career, Gjelten has covered major wars in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, Croatia and Bosnia, as well as the Gulf War of 1990–1991. Drawing upon his extensive professional knowledge, Gjelten has penned several books, including Sarajevo Daily: A City and Its Newspaper Under Siege and Professionalism in War Reporting: A Correspondent's View. His forthcoming book, Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: A Biography, is the latest in a series of insightful books on the topic of war and its impact on public media.

In addition to his overseas reporting, Gjelten has covered U.S. diplomacy and military affairs from the State Department and the Pentagon since 1995. He was reporting live from the Pentagon at the moment it was hit on September 11, 2001 and was NPR's lead Pentagon reporter during the war in Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq.

Gjelten has won numerous awards for his work, including the Overseas Press Club award for "Best Business or Economic Reporting in Radio or TV," the Overseas Press Club's Lowell Thomas Award, a George Polk Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Harrison Salisbury Annual Achievement Awards from The Minnesota Daily and a George Foster Peabody Award for coverage of the war in Iraq. He was a key member of NPR's Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Silver Baton award-winning news team, which was awarded the prestigious Silver Baton for its outstanding coverage of the September 11 attacks.

About MPR's Broadcast Journalist Series
Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series, now in its 12th season, commissions journalists and correspondents for a 24-hour residency four times a year. While here, they share their insights on their craft as well as on people and events that affect them professionally. Past journalists include Barbara Ehrenreich, Columnist Thomas Friedman and NPR's Sylvia Poggioli, Deborah Amos, Alex Chadwick, Don Gonyea and Martin Kaste.

Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series is sponsored by Macalester College, The Bibelot Shops and Dorsey & Whitney.

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