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ABOUT Charles Madigan
Charles M. Madigan spent forty years in journalism before joining Roosevelt University in Chicago as Presidential Writer- in-Residence. He has worked as senior correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the editor of the Tribune's "Perspective" section. He is the editor of Global Chicago and co-author of Dangerous Company: Management Consultants and the Businesses They Save and Ruin. Profile
ABOUT Nadia Bilbassy-Charters

Nadia Bilbassy-Charters is a senior news correspondent for Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC) in Washington, D.C. She is the former Washington Bureau senior diplomatic correspondent for Al Arabiya Satellite TV Channel, where she covered the White House and the State Department. She was also the MBC-TV bureau chief in Nairobi, Kenya.
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ABOUT Dmitry Sidorov
Dmitry Sidorov is the bureau chief of Kommersant, a leading Russian business and political daily in Washington D.C. He is a columnist at the popular Russian liberal opinion-based website www.EJ.ru (or Daily Magazine in English) and a Forbes.com contributor. His writings have also appeared in The Weekly Standard and FrontPage Magazine. Profile
ABOUT Paulo Sotero
Paulo Sotero is the director of the Brazil Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington D.C. From 1989 until 2006 he was the Washington correspondent for Estado de S.Paulo, a leading Brazilian daily newspaper, and has been a commentator and analyst on Brazilian affairs on radio and television programs, including the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, the Diane Rehm Show and newscasts at CNN International, Voice of America, BBC, and Al Jazeera. He is currently on the adjunct faculty of the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Profile

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Even as globalization takes hold, foreign journalists continue to see and tell US news stories from a different perspective than their American counterparts. One year after the 2008 presidential election, journalists from foreign media channels discussed international depictions of President Barack Obama and the news stories of the moment. Former Chicago Tribune Perspectives editor and columnist Charles Madigan, now presidential writer-in-residence at Roosevelt University, moderated this annual forum of prominent international journalists based in the United States. Panelists included Nadia Bilbassy-Charters, Dmitry Sidorov, and Paulo Sotero.

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Leading First Amendment scholar Geoffrey Stone moderates a roundtable of panelists including Ronald Collins, scholar at the First Amendment Center and coauthor of The Trials of Lenny Bruce, and Judges William J. Bauer and Diane P. Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

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A distinguished panel of journalists discuss the 2008 presidential election, how it happened, what it means for Chicago, and what they predict lies ahead for the administration. The panelists also discuss the campaign and the impact of technology and the internet on the campaign.