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Ourselves as Others See Us
Saturday, November 7, 2009 @ 4:30 p.m.

Even as globalization takes hold, foreign journalists continue to see and tell US news stories from a different perspective than their American counterparts. One year after the 2008 presidential election, find out how foreign media channels depict President Obama and the news stories of the moment.

Former Chicago Tribune editor and columnist Charles Madigan, now presidential writer-in-residence at Roosevelt University, returns to moderate this annual forum of prominent US-based international journalists.


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Northwestern University School of Law-Thorne Auditorium
375 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611


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Chicago Humanities Festival
312.494.9509

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$10 in advance
$15 at the door

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