Carlow University Hosts CBS News' Kimberly Dozier for Marie Torre Lecture

Carlow University Hosts CBS News' Kimberly Dozier for Marie Torre Lecture

Middle East Correspondent, Wounded in Iraq, Will Speak on Saturday, November 3

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Carlow University and its Women of Spirit Institute will host CBS News Correspondent, Kimberly Dozier, for the fifth Marie Torre Memorial Lecture on Saturday, November 3, 2007, at 7 p.m. in Kresge Theatre, fifth floor, Grace Library, on the Carlow campus.

The Marie Torre Memorial Lecture Series was established as a partnership between KDKA-TV and Carlow as a living memorial to television anchorwoman Marie Torre.

While reporting from Baghdad on May 29, 2006, Dozier, her cameraman Paul Douglas, and soundman, James Brolan, were the victims of a car bombing. Douglas and Brolan were killed, as were the U.S. Army captain they were following and his Iraqi translator. Dozier was seriously wounded. She has recovered completely after multiple surgeries and many months of physical therapy. [See Dozier's CBS biography for details of her career.]

The Marie Torre Memorial Lecture Series was established to commemorate Marie Torre, a pioneer and role model for women in the field of communications, and to honor individuals who are exemplars of ethical and professional leadership.

The late Marie Torre, a nationally respected broadcast journalist, first gained notoriety in 1959 for going to jail for refusing to reveal the name of the source of a New York Herald-Tribune story about actress Judy Garland. When she was held in contempt of court and ordered to spend 10 days in jail, she became the first journalist in the United States to be jailed for protecting a source. Torre moved to Pittsburgh in 1962 to work for KDKA-TV, where she anchored the news and hosted her own program. In 1977, she returned to New York, working for WABC and WCBS and earning Emmy Awards for investigative reporting.

The Marie Torre Memorial Lecture Series endeavors to honor Torre's memory by seeking out speakers who have demonstrated the highest standards of professional and personal integrity, and who are role models for Carlow students and other young people.

Previous lecturers and recipients of the Marie Torre Award include Mike Wallace, Carol Marin, Thalia Assuras, and Byron Pitts.

The lecture is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. Please call (412) 578-2091 to reserve seats.

About Carlow University

Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carlow University was founded by the Sisters of Mercy. Formerly Carlow College, the institution was granted university status in 2004. Offering both undergraduate and graduate programs, Carlow is the first women-centered University in the state of Pennsylvania.

CBS News Bio of Kimberly Dozier

(CBS) Kimberly Dozier is a CBS News correspondent working primarily in Baghdad since August 2003. She has covered Iraq and the Middle East extensively for the CBS Evening News, The Early Show and CBS Radio News.

On Memorial Day 2006 (May 29), while reporting a story in Baghdad about American soldiers working with Iraqi security forces, Dozier, cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan were the victims of a car bombing. Douglas and Brolan were killed, as were the U.S. Army captain they were following and his Iraqi translator. Dozier was seriously wounded, but recovered completely after multiple surgeries and months of physiotherapy.

Prior to her CBS News appointment, she was the chief correspondent for WCBS-TV New York's Middle East bureau in Jerusalem (February 2002-August 2003), from where she covered the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the war in Iraq.

Before that, Dozier served as the London bureau chief and chief European correspondent for CBS Radio News, as well as a reporter for CBS News television (1996-2002). Her assignments included the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the crisis and refugee exodus in the Balkans, Vladimir Putin's election, the death of Princess Diana, Northern Ireland's peace process and the Khobar barracks bombing in Dhahran. Dozier has interviewed dozens of newsmakers, including Gerry Adams and Yassir Arafat. In addition to her work for CBS Radio News, she also reported for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, the CBS Evening News weekend editions, The Early Show and CBS Newspath, the Network's 24-hour news service.

Dozier was an anchor for BBC Radio World Service's "World Update" (1996- 98), where she anchored the hour-long, live foreign affairs broadcast, among other programs.

While living in Cairo (from 1993-95), Dozier did freelance work for CBS Radio News and Voice of America and wrote for The Washington Post and The San Francisco Chronicle. She served as a Washington, D.C.-based reporter for The Energy Daily, New Technology Week and Environment Week, covering Congressional policy and industry regulation (1988-91).

Dozier is the recipient of three American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) Gracie Awards -- in 2000, 2001 and 2002 -- for her radio reports on Mideast violence, Kosovo and the Afghan war. She received the organization's Grand Gracie Award in 2007 for her body of work in Iraq. Dozier and ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff were honored with the 2007 Radio and Television News Directors Association and Foundation's Leonard Zeidenberg First Amendment Award. She also was honored by the Overseas Press Club this year and spoke on behalf of journalists who have been killed and injured in Iraq.

She was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dozier was graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in human rights and Spanish and from the University of Virginia in 1993 with a master's degree in foreign affairs, Middle East. She lives in Jerusalem.

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