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2002:

  1. A discussion about Vietnam War journalism
    A discussion about Vietnam War journalism

    with Edith Lederer, Jurate Kazickas and Laura Palmer on Nov 27, 2002

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Edith Lederer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who covered wars for 25 years in Vietnam, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan and the Mideast for the Associated Press and is currently AP?s Chief UN Correspondent. She made history herself as the first woman assigned full time to the AP staff during the Vietnam War. She was also the first woman to head an AP foreign bureau in 1975.

Lederer is one of nine authors of ?War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam?.

Source-Cornell Alumni http://berkshires.alumni.cornell.edu/spring2004.html