Award-winning, international journalist Christine Spolar will talk about her experiences covering from war zones and discuss the role of the journalist in the supporting democracy. 

Christine Spolar, a veteran, award-winning journalist, whose reporting has run the gamut of wars, pandemics, cybercrimes, financial wrongdoings and climate change, will be the next featured speaker in the Kiplinger Speaker Series.

Spolar will give a talk to the university community on Tuesday. April 11, in Baker Center 240. The talk begins at 6:30 p.m. Her topic will be to discuss the role journalists play in democracy when reporting from a war zone.

Spolar was a 1980s fellow of the Kiplinger Fellowship and currently reports from London, England. She’s been reporting on wars and economic upheaval and directing and editing investigations from London to Washington to Beijing to Tokyo. She is also the current climate/labor editor at the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.