The New York Times is adding another visit tally mark to its Utah wall.
Joseph Kahn, deputy foreign editor of the Times and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, will speak at the Hinckley Institute of Politics Caucus Room today at 12:30 p.m. He will be addressing the situation in which the new administration has found itself, in a forum titled, “The Challenges of President Obama and the New World.”
“This is something The New York Times sets up for us through the Collegiate Readership Program,” said Brian Burton, programming adviser for the Associated Students of the University of Utah. “They try to do a speaker at least once a semester on campus.”
Kahn has won two Pulitzer Prizes8212;one in international reporting for his collaboration on a series of stories concerning violence against women around the world, and another, also in international reporting, for his stories about the justice system in China.
He was made deputy foreign editor in February 2008 after serving as the bureau chief in Shanghai for the Times. He also worked four years as a correspondent in China for The Wall Street Journal after working at The Dallas Morning News.
Everyone is welcome to the forum. For questions, contact the Hinckley Institute of Politics at 801 581-8501.