Fourteen French-speaking journalists from West Africa are due to arrive at the University of Georgia Monday, Nov. 3, to participate in a discussion of election coverage and the role of social media in the U.S. and visit the facilities of UGA’s Grady School of Journalism.
The university canceled a Liberian journalist’s visit earlier this month for fear of spreading the Ebola virus. Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are the West African countries where the disease is widespread.
The journalists arriving through the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists on the Nov. 3-5 visit in Athens are from the countries of Burundi, Chad, Comoros, Mali, Mauritania and Togo where the virus has not spread.
While on the UGA campus, they will meet with Grady College Dean Charles Davis and participate in discussions about social media. They also are to observe the college’s digital and broadcast majors in the newsroom of Grady Newsource as the students cover election developments.
In addition, they will discuss U.S. elections with Charles Bullock, the Richard B. Russell chair in political science at UGA’s School of Public and International Affairs and attend a session at UGA’s African Studies Institute.
The visiting journalists are to be in the U.S. for three weeks for a tour that includes stops in the cities of Washington and New York and the states of Georgia and New Mexico, returning home from New York on Nov. 14.
For more information, contact Lee B. Becker, 706-542-5023, lbbecker@uga.edu
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