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NPR News Producer and International Journalist to Address The Creamery Writers’ Workshop Feb. 11
Thursday, February 04, 2010
Springfield Regional Arts Council is pleased to announce Jennifer Moore as the next speaker for the Creamery Writers’ Workshop on February 11 at 7 p.m. at The Creamery Arts Center. Her presentation is entitled “Writing from an Overseas Hot Spot.”
Moore grew up in West Plains, Missouri and decided in high school that she wanted to become a journalist. She studied journalism at University of MO School of Journalism where she received her degree in 2001. Moore then spent two semesters in Cairo, Egypt where she studied Middle Eastern history and Arabic. After graduation she moved abroad to the Persian Gulf where she worked as a freelance journalist reporting for National Public Radio and field producing for CNN’s program Inside the Middle East. She reported on issues ranging from the loss of the traditional Bedouin culture to media censorship in the Gulf and the plight of Iraqi refugees who fled their country after the war began. After five years in the Persian Gulf, Moore returned to Missouri where she is now the senior news producer at the local NPR station, KSMU.
The Creamery Writers' Workshop is an outreach program of the Springfield Regional Arts Council and is free and open to all writers, regardless of age or genre. No registration is required. The group meets the 2nd and 4th Thursday each month from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in The Creamery Arts Center at 411 N. Sherman Parkway, right across from Hammons Field. For further information, call the Springfield Regional Arts Council, 417-862-ARTS(2787).