Princeton Grad To Discuss Her Trump-Russia Coverage Jan. 23

PRINCETON, NJ — Investigative journalist and Princeton alum Julia Ioffe will speak with NPR’s Deborah Amos about her recent reporting, its challenges and risks, and the harassment she has experienced online from White Supremacist groups during an event at Princeton University on Tuesday, Jan. 23.

“The Atlantic’s” Ioffe, who graduated from the university in 2005, has been on the front lines of reporting on the Trump-Russia investigation, according to a release from the university announcing the event. Department of Music Professor Simon Morrison will moderate the discussion, which will take place in 10 McCosh Hall on the Princeton University campus, and will be free and open to all. No tickets will be required.

Ioffe covers national security and foreign policy topics for The Atlantic. Ioffe inhabits both the American and Russian political worlds, navigating, in her reporting, the fraught present-day dynamic between the two countries.

Her powerful, provocative reporting has made her one of the most influential reporters of the “post-facts era,” the university said. Ioffe has previously written for “Politico,” “The New Yorker,” and “The New Republic.” Her article “What Putin Really Wants” is the cover story of this month’s issue of “The Atlantic.”

Her 2016 profile of Melanie Trump for “GQ” attracted national attention after Ioffe was targeted by white supremacists. She appears frequently on CNN, MSNBC, and PBS.

Amos’ reports can be heard on NPR’s award-winning “Morning Edition,” “All Things Considered,” and “Weekend Edition.” For a decade she reported for television news, including ABC’s “Nightline” and “World News Tonight” and the PBS programs “NOW with Bill Moyers” and “Frontline.”

Amos has won many awards, including the Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting in 2009. She has traveled extensively across the Middle East covering a range of stories, including the Syrian uprising. She now covers the migration crisis with a focus on Syrian refugees in the United States. At Princeton University, Amos is a Visiting Lecturer in the Humanities Council and a Ferris Professor of Journalism.

Morrison is an archival historian specializing in 20th-century Russian and Soviet music with expertise in opera, dance, film, sketch studies, and historically informed performance. Having earned unequaled access to repositories in Russia, he has unearthed previously unknown sketches, scores, letters, diaries, official documents, contracts, financial records, photographs, and other sources related to musical life from the tsars through the Soviets.

He is a leading expert on composer Sergey Prokofiev, and at present researching the career of Tchaikovsky as well as a new political biography of Shostakovich.

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