This talk, and the four others APR has been invited to give by the U.S. State Department, were recognized generously during a Huntsville luncheon by the citizens’ diplomacy group Global Ties Alabama. This organization works with Washington to facilitate visits by foreign delegations to our State. That’s also how APR is invited to talk about our major journalism projects.
“It (the Belarusian reporter visit) was a very difficult program because of just their own personal experiences ,” said Global Ties Alabama Program Director Annette Philpo’t. She was telling her luncheon audience about the repression of journalists in Belarus. “I called Pat and I just said, I just kind of gave him a heads up, and when he came to meet with them, what was wonderful is that he broke through those barriers, and he met them just in a very special place, and they felt comfortable with him.”
APR was recognized for its presentations that day. Alison Moylan, Deputy Director of the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program, also talked about a 2023 talk APR gave that helped to inspire one delegation member from Lithuania to create a podcast designed to help young people avoid news disinformation.
Next time, I’ll write about editing the script of an even earlier U.S. Supreme Court case, in Tuskegee, that set the Constitutional precedent against disenfranchising against black voters in 1960. I was working with Lynn Oldshue on her copy while waiting for a one-on-one chat with the Human Rights Ombudsperson of the Parliament of Lithuania.
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