Meet the ABC's Foreign Affairs Editor

Hosted by: Australian Institute of International Affairs, NSW

The event will start on: Tuesday, 12 October 2010 6:00 PM

And will end on: Tuesday, 12 October 2010 7:30 PM

At The Glover Cottages, Sydney

124 Kent Street , Sydney NSW

02 8011 4728     nsw.branch@aiia.asn.au

Posted by: nsw   

Meet the ABC’s Foreign Affairs Editor

For most of us, the ABC is our prime source of international news. In recent years it has greatly expanded both the breadth and depth of its foreign coverage, and has more overseas staff correspondents than any other Australian media. These reporters have more outlets, too, than most of their global counterparts with programs such as Four Corners, the 7:30 Report, Lateline, AM, PM and The World Today as well as the new ABC News 24.

Peter Cave is the ABC’s foreign affairs editor. In a career spanning 40 years, he has reported from more than 60 countries. His first foreign posting was to Japan in the early 1980s, and he was subsequently chief correspondent for Europe and the Middle East, and Washington bureau chief before being appointed to his present roving brief. VIEW VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH PETER CAVE

Peter has covered just about every major international story of the past two decades including two Gulf wars, the fall of President Suharto in Indonesia, the first Bali Bombing, three Fijian coups, the troubles in Northern Ireland and the election of George W Bush.

He is a five-time winner of Australian journalism's most prestigious accolade, the Walkley Award. He was recognised twice for his coverage of theTiananmen Square massacre in Beijing and for the fall of the Berlin Wall. He won two Walkley awards for his Radio News and TV News coverage for his international exclusive on the Iraq hostage Thomas Hamill.

Peter will describe, in an illustrated talk,  the realities and limitations of being a frontline correspondent on the battlefield, and tell some of the stories behind the reports. He will answer questions about the skills required to be a foreign correspondent, about how news judgements are made. and about the responsibilites of those who bring us the news from some of the world’s most dangerous places.

The meeting will be chaired by NSW branch president, Colin Chapman, who is also a former ABC and BBC journalist, and who covered wars in Vietnam and Nigeria before specialising in economics and politics.