The Student Events Center Distinguished Speakers Committee is honored to host award-winning journalist and international news correspondent Laura Ling on Tuesday April 5th at 7:00pm in the Texas Union Ballroom (UNB 3.202). She will be detailing her experiences as a detainee in North Korea for several months in 2009.
Tickets will be available beginning Tuesday March 29 at 7:30 am from the Texas...
[read more] The Student Events Center Distinguished Speakers Committee is honored to host award-winning journalist and international news correspondent Laura Ling on Tuesday April 5th at 7:00pm in the Texas Union Ballroom (UNB 3.202). She will be detailing her experiences as a detainee in North Korea for several months in 2009.
Tickets will be available beginning Tuesday March 29 at 7:30 am from the Texas Union's Events & Info Desk (UNB 4.300) and the Student Activities Center Ticket Office (SAC 1.112).
Ling is the host and reporter on E! Investigates, a documentary series on the E! Network, which explores topics such as teen suicide and the challenges faced by military spouses.
Prior to joining the E! Network Ling served as Vice President of Current TV’s journalism department and created Current’s weekly investigative documentary series Vanguard. Ling also worked as a correspondent reporting on crucial issues from around the world. She has reported from dozens of countries and has covered subjects including slave labor in the Amazon, Mexico’s drug war, Internet censorship in China, and women’s rights in Turkey.
In March 2009, while reporting on the trafficking of North Korean women, Ling was detained by North Korean soldiers along the Chinese-North Korean border. She and her colleague Euna Lee were arrested and held captive in North Korea for 140 days before being granted a special pardon and returning to the United States.
She has since sought to shine a light on the issue of trafficked women as well as to bring greater attention to the plight of other imprisoned journalists around the world. Ling has also worked as a series producer for Channel One News where she produced reports from around the globe.
Ling co-created Breaking it Down, a documentary series on MTV that aired between 1999 and 2001. Her work has also appeared on ABC's Nightline, NBC, PBS, and the WB. Ling is co-author of Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home, that she penned with sister Lisa.
Pass information:
1. Free pass distribution for students will begin on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 7:30AM at the Texas Union's Events & Info Desk (UNB 4.300) and the Student Activities Center Ticket Office (SAC 1.112).
2. After the first day, passes will be handed out from 8:00AM-5:00PM until they all have been distributed.
3. Faculty and staff may pick up a ticket beginning March 30 at the same locations.
4. To obtain a pass, you must present a valid UT Austin student, staff or faculty I.D.
5. You will receive only ONE pass per I.D., and you may only use ONE I.D. per person.
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