The Oxford Community Center is hosting a lecture by Ralph Begleiter, former CNN world affairs correspondent and Emeritus Professor at the University of Delaware. The lecture is Thursday, October 27 at 530pm. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the door or prior to the event.
Begleiter’s talk, “Media Earthquake: The New Business of News,” will explain how social media and Internet communication revolutions have overturned a century of mainstream information media economics, ethics and standards, thus affecting the information voters are consuming during the 2016 election cycle. He will discuss this media upheaval and its implications for a free society that depends on informed voters for good governance.
Ralph Begleiter has more than thirty years of broadcast journalism experience. During two decades as CNN’s world affairs correspondent, Begleiter was the network’s most widely-traveled reporter, traveling to 100 countries on all seven continents. During the 1980’s and 1990’s, when CNN was the world’s only global, all-news television channel, he covered U.S. diplomacy, interviewed countless world leaders, hosted a public affairs program called “Global View,” and co-anchored CNN’s “International Hour.” In 1998, Begleiter wrote and anchored a 24-part series on the Cold War. He covered historic events at the end of the 20th century, including virtually every high-level Soviet/Russian-American meeting; the Persian Gulf Crisis in 1990-91; Middle East Peace efforts; and many UN and NATO summit meetings.
As a University of Delaware Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Rosenberg Professor of Communication, Ralph Begleiter traveled with students to Cuba, South America, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Antarctica. He taught a course, “The Road to the Presidency,” during election years, bringing students into the “situation room” during both major party political conventions. He is the founder of the University’s Center for Political Communication, a research, teaching, and public service organization that explores the effects of emerging communication technologies on elections and policy debates.
Tickets can be purchased by calling OCC at 410-226-5904 or online at their website at www.oxfordcc.org. OCC is located at 200 Oxford Road, Oxford, Md., 21654. Tickets can also be purchased at the door. The Begleiter lecture is sponsored in part by Sandaway Waterfront Lodging.
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