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Covering ISIS: A Journalist’s Challenge Tuesday, February 9 7:30 pm Shambaugh Auditorium Ben Plesser is a senior producer at NBC News, heading a dedicated team with the network’s chief foreign correspondent, Richard Engel. Having covered international news for two decades, he is the recipient of multiple Emmy awards as well as the prestigious Peabody and Alfred I. DuPont- Columbia awards. Plesser started as a researcher in 1995 at the New York Times’ Jerusalem Bureau, before making the move to television news in 1999 as an associate producer at CBS News’ 60 Minutes in London, where he quickly became a producer. During the 2003 Iraq war, he led the CBS News team on the northern front, and later became one of the network’s rotating bureau chiefs in Baghdad. Over the next decade, he covered many major news events around the world, including an earthquake in Iran, unrest in Pakistan and flooding in Burma; he was the main producer when news anchors travelled to Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and London; in 2005, he returned to the US for coverage of the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. In 2011, when the Arab spring erupted, he led the CBS News team in Cairo throughout the Tahrir Square uprising, and was the first American journalist to report from Tripoli after the uprising in Libya. When Syrians took to the streets, Plesser made repeated and dangerous trips into Syria, following the story as civil unrest turned to civil war. In late 2013, Plesser left CBS to join the newly formed Richard Engel Unit at NBC, which he now leads. He and Engel have won accolades for their coverage of the civil war in Syria and the rise of ISIS, and cover other major events around the world, from the earthquake in Nepal and the migrant crisis in Europe to the terror attacks in Paris. Other University of Iowa co-sponsors: Department of Political Science, Department of History, Department of Religious Studies, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, International Programs, Department of Communications Studies Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Leslie Gannon in advance at (319) 335-6817 or [email protected]..

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