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Correspondent for Iraq War to give 30th McGill Lecture
By Sherrie R. Whaley
swhaley@uga.edu
Hannah Allam
A young woman who’s been dragged from her room by police and pinned down by gunfire in a shrine will present the 30th annual McGill Lecture.

Hannah Allam, Middle East bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers, will speak on “Bullets, Budget Cuts and Why We Must Preserve Foreign Reporting” at 4 p.m. Oct.15 in room 102 of the Miller Learning Center.

Sponsored by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, the lecture is free and open to the public. A reception follows the lecture.

Allam was just 25 years old when Knight Ridder, later acquired by McClatchy, asked her to become its Baghdad bureau chief after the start of the Iraq War in 2003. Throughout the next two years, Allam and her 16-member staff became what one observer called “a major force for Iraq War coverage.”

Allam was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists in 2004. She is on leave this year from McClatchy to study as a Neiman Fellow at Harvard University.
 


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