The Hillsdale College Dow Journalism Program is hosting foreign correspondent Keith Rich-
burg, who will be presenting his overseas experiences in a lecture titled, “A Life on the Road:
Reflections of a Foreign Correspondent” at 8 p.m. on Sept. 17 in Dow A&B.
Richburg worked for more than 20 years at The Washington Post. During his time at the
Post, he reported on the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, the military intervention in Somalia,
and the genocide in Rwanda. From 2005-2007, he worked as the Post’s foreign editor. He also
served as bureau chief in Beijing, Paris, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Nairobi, Manila, and New York.
He is a 2013 Spring Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy Institute of Politics and is also
the acclaimed author of “Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa.”
