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How True Stories Make Us Care

Gresham College

Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn

Mon 26 Oct · 18:00 · Free

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This lecture explores how to get the reader to care about people whose names they can't pronounce, living in a place they've never visited American journalist and writer Barbara Demick will talk about her work as a journalist, writing about the lives of North Koreans, Tibetans, and people living in rural China. She will discuss the physical danger of reporting during war, the difficulties covering an authoritarian country where journalists' travel was restricted and interview subjects could be arrested for speaking out. A lecture by Professor Barbara Demick This event is also available to watch live online. To register, visit: How True Stories Make Us Care | Gresham College

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