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\n\t\tKole to deliver address at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s annual Christiane Amanpour Lecture<\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2014 March 7, 2012 \u2013 Slowly, but surely, the shades are being drawn on Americans\u2019 window to the world as news organizations scale back their coverage of international affairs, says William J. Kole, the Associated Press bureau chief for New England.<\/p>\n


\nKole, who spent much of his journalism career as a foreign correspondent, is this year\u2019s speaker at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s 2012 Christiane Amanpour Lecture. Kole will deliver a speech titled \u201cAmerica\u2019s Blas\u00e9 Approach to Global News Coverage and Why it\u2019s Wrong\u201d on March 21 at 7 p.m. in Swan Hall, Doody Auditorium, 60 Upper College Road, Kingston. The lecture is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI think we\u2019ve cut back our commitment to international coverage,\u201d Kole said. \u201cThe ranks of foreign correspondents have been greatly thinned because it\u2019s a great financial commitment for news organizations. Our window on that world is closing.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThere\u2019s a great history at 溏心vlog免费B站 with the Amanpour Lecture bringing in foreign correspondents from The New York Times and elsewhere to throw open that window.\u201d

\nKole, 51, said that as the U.S. engages in conflicts on several fronts overseas and the world markets become ever more intertwined, news coverage of issues on a global scale are more important than ever. <\/p>\n


\nYet, simultaneously, even the largest news organizations in the nation prefer to rely on the voice of the Associated Press, or flying in reporters when something happens, rather than having them stationed in key spots around the world to develop a more comprehensive view of global affairs.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI think it\u2019s hugely important\u201d to have more voices reporting on world events, Kole said. \u201cThe Associated Press is a credible news organization with a commitment to robust international news coverage, but there needs to be more people reporting. It\u2019s tragic that many large newspapers don\u2019t have their own foreign correspondents.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cNews organizations are flying people into situations to perform fireman duty, but that only goes as far as it goes,\u201d he continued. \u201cThose reporters don\u2019t know the texture of that place, and we\u2019ve lost that to a great degree.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nKole, a Massachusetts native who is now based in Boston, spent nine years as the AP bureau chief in Vienna covering central and eastern Europe. He led the AP\u2019s coverage of ethnic conflict in Macedonia; the arrest and death of former Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic; the capture of Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic; Kosovo’s declaration of independence; and the trial of Austria’s Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered her seven children.<\/p>\n


\nKole also helped cover major breaking stories outside his region, including the car crash that killed Princess Diana, the death of Pope John Paul II, the London subway terrorist attacks and violent street protests in Iran.<\/p>\n


\nHe joined the AP in 1988 in Detroit and moved to Lansing, Mich., as a statehouse reporter in 1992. The following year, he transferred to the international desk in New York and, in 1995, he was posted to Paris. Kole previously served as bureau chief in Hartford, Conn., from 2000-01, and in Amsterdam from 1997-2000. This spring he is a visiting professor of journalism at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass.<\/p>\n


\nKole studied journalism at Boston University and worked for The Sun Chronicle in Attleboro, Mass., before joining the AP. He and his wife, Terry DeYonker Kole, a former illustrator for AP Graphics and The Detroit News, have two grown children.<\/p>\n


\nThe Christiane Amanpour Lecture is named for the 1983 溏心vlog免费B站 alumna and 1995 honorary degree recipient who is the global affairs anchor for ABC News\u2019 This Week. Amanpour is also the chief international correspondent for CNN International. <\/p>\n


\nThe annual speaker series is designed to help the University bring well-respected professional journalists to campus and it is coordinated by 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Journalism Department.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kole to deliver address at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s annual Christiane Amanpour Lecture KINGSTON, R.I. \u2014 March 7, 2012 \u2013 Slowly, but surely, the shades are being drawn on Americans\u2019 window to the world as news organizations scale back their coverage of international affairs, says William J. Kole, the Associated Press bureau chief for New England. Kole, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}