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Giving Voice to the Voiceless – journalist Stephanie Nolen
Canadian foreign correspondent Stephanie Nolen will rock your world. She was featured last night on the CBC radio show, “Ideas” which broadcast The 2010 Dalton Camp Lecture in Journalism. While I was innocently running errands with my nun, I became totally absorbed in her words as well as the stories and images of the women that she met in some of the most remote, violent places on the earth.
Stephanie, the South Asia correspondent for the Globe and Mail, delivered her talk, “Shrapnel, Snakes and Blistering Rage: On the Occupational Hazards of a Foreign Correspondent,” on September 29, 2010, at Saint Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She offers her audience, including many budding journalists, five rules (or six if you count the one about always carrying waterproof matches in case you need to set your foot on fire after a snakebite) for journalism. These rules are in fact very good guidelines for anyone who seeks to engage the world, to pursue truth, to give voice to our own stories and the stories of those who have no voice.
Listen to Stephanie’s talk, Shrapnel, Snakes and Blistering Rage, courtesy CBC Canada and check out their web page for this Ideas episode on the 2010 Dalton Camp Lecture.
Also be sure to read Stephanie’s profile on her website where you’ll discover her patron saint and how many languages she can flirt in. Don’t miss her dispatches including one from the Democratic Republic of Congo called “The War on Women” and others on AIDS in Africa, surviving rape, and children in the midst of war.
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Julie, she is amazing. The world is amazing – terrible, but amazing.
Thank you. I’m not sure yet, but I think this will change my life, somehow.
Just imagine – the women correspondents of today face many of the same challenges of religious women missioning in North America during the last 2 centuries! And without the benefit of background study, our modern day technology and comforts, GPS, instant communications — the sisters ventured on faith, charity, and the love of Christ. Success!
Next, contrast the “back up plan” in the 1880s to 2011, in your mind. Thank God that the call to peace and justice for the voiceless and sufferng lives on, through our time — from Stephanie Nolen, to the local Amnesty International gathering at the State College, to the missionary Sisters in the midst, and so on.
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