Both Connecticut residents, CBS's Richard C. Hottelet (WWII, Vietnam) and NPR's Ivan Watson (Iraq, Afghanistan) represent two generations of war zone reporting
Fairfield, CT –Two reporters from separate generations will share their war reporting experiences with a live audience when WSHU Public Radio Group brings veteran CBS News Correspondent Richard C. Hottelet together with Ivan Watson, a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio.
WSHU Morning Edition Host Tom Kuser will moderate this special event at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 5, at the Edgerton Center for Performing Arts at Sacred Heart University. The event is free, but reserving seats through www.WSHU.org or by calling 800-937-6045 is required.
A Connecticut resident, Hottelet joined the Berlin Bureau of United Press in 1938 and distinguished himself by his at-the-scene war zone reporting throughout World War II. He was one of the first reporters to enter Poland after the German invasion and witnessed D-Day from an Air Force bomber over Utah Beach.
During that time, Hottelet joined Edward R. Murrow's CBS News Bureau in London, where he became one of “Murrow's Boys,” a legendary group of risk-taking, eyewitness correspondents who traveled the world.
Watson, also from Connecticut, has been a foreign reporter for NPR since 2001, when he became its West Africa correspondent. Since then, Watson has covered conflicts throughout the world, most recently in Afghanistan and Iraq. Embedded with the Kurds in Northern Iraq, he was part of NPR's award-winning coverage of the Iraq War.
Watson's first overseas posting was in Russia in 1998. He spent three years in Moscow, first working with CBS News, and then as a producer for CNN's Moscow
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