Aging In Montclair To Host Event: ‘The Cost of Bringing You The News’

MONTCLAIR, NJ — The following news release comes courtesy of Aging In Montclair. Learn more about posting announcements or events to your local Patch site.

Aging In Montclair’s Saturday Social on July 30 at 4 p.m. will present veteran journalist Kathleen Carroll, chair of the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Readers and viewers of news may not realize the grave dangers journalists often face as they cover news stories around the world. As Ms. Carroll notes, “In the last decade, 283 journalists around the world have been murdered for doing their jobs. And in 81 percent of those cases, no one has been prosecuted, convicted or held accountable for those deaths in any way.” She will discuss the reasons behind these alarming statistics and why she believes there has never been a more dangerous time to be a journalist, including here in the United States.

Kathleen Carroll began her journalism career at her hometown Dallas Morning News and later worked for the San Jose Mercury News, the Knight Ridder Washington Bureau, and Associated Press bureaus in several cities. From 2002 through 2016, as senior vice president and executive editor of The Associated Press, she was responsible for coverage from journalists in more than 100 countries. Under her leadership, AP journalists won numerous awards, including five Pulitzer Prizes.

She is a longtime leader on efforts to provide vital security for journalists working in hostile environments and was the first journalist to address the UN Security Council on this topic. Since 2017, Carroll has chaired the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a global organization that helps journalists in trouble and advocates for press freedom. Since 2019, Carroll has also served on the board of Montclair Local, a new nonprofit news organization that serves our community.

Carroll is married to author Steven Twomey and they are the proud parents of an adult son, Nicholas. They have lived in Montclair since 2002.

To register for this zoom meeting, contact AIM at aginginmontclairAIM@gmail.com or call 973-707-5088.

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