Network Journalists to Speak at Ohio Dominican University

February 1, 2005

Ron Allen and Adaora Udoji at ODU as Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows

COLUMBUS, OH - Network journalists and Woodrow Wilson Foundation Visiting Fellows Ron Allen and Adaora Udoji will speak at Ohio Dominican University on Thursday, February 24 at 7:30 p.m., in the Wehrle Gallery. The husband and wife team's presentation is being sponsored by Ohio Dominican's Honors Program.

Ron Allen is an award-winning NBC News correspondent based in New York. He recently returned to the United States after many years based in London, covering stories across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia. During a journalism career that spans more than 20 years with NBC Nightly News, Today and MSNBC, Allen has reported from Baghdad on the War in Iraq; from Pakistan and Afghanistan on the War on Terror; from Israel, the West Bank and Gaza on the Middle East peace process and the conflict in Kosovo; and from Belgrade and inside Kosovo on NATO's war to remove Slobodan Milosevic. Prior to joining NBC News, Allen was a London-based correspondent for ABC News and a correspondent for CBS News, based in Washington, D.C.

He has served on reporting teams that have won numerous awards, including six Overseas Press Club Awards, four Emmys, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, and a George Foster Peabody Award. In 1999 he was voted Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists.

Adaora Udoji is a general news correspondent for the CNN News Group, based in New York. She joined CNN in2003 from ABC News, where she served as an international correspondent based in London. For CNN, Udoji has covered the War in Iraq from Qatar and Iraq; the War in Afghanistan from Pakistan; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from Israel and Jordan; Pope John Paul II from Vatican City; and several sporting events including Wimbledon, the British Open and the Tour de France. For ABC News, she reported and produced international stories covering Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Udoji was part of the team that won a Cine Eagle Award for an ABC primetime documentary about Death Row.

Wehrle Gallery is located in Wehrle Hall on ODU's main campus at 1216 Sunbury Road. Free parking is available in the Visitor's Lot west of Sunbury Road. The lecture is free and open to the public; reservations are not required.

The Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows Program was established to encourage the flow of ideas between the academic and non-academic sectors of society, and to connect a liberal education with the world beyond the campus. Each year, Fellows spend a week on the campuses of small liberal arts universities, helping students and professors relate education to the needs of American society. Through classes, seminars, workshops, lectures, and informal discussions, Fellows, students, and faculty foster a greater understanding between the academic and non-academic worlds.