Los Angeles, CA (Mon., Jan. 10, 2005) - 89.3 KPCC and Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles present the Broadcast Journalist Series with National Public Radio foreign correspondent Michael Shuster at Loyola Marymount University on Monday, January 24 at 7 p.m. in the University Hall's Ahmanson Auditorium. Shuster will speak about international diplomacy and terrorism from a journalist's perspective. The event is open to the public free of charge. For reservations call (310) 338-5278.

Based in NPR's Los Angeles bureau, Mike Shuster is a diplomatic and roving foreign correspondent. When he is not traveling outside the U.S., he covers issues of nuclear non-proliferation and weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and the Pacific Rim. Shuster took up his current post in 1994. Over the past few years, he has contributed to NPR's extensive coverage of the Middle East, and has reported from Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq. Shuster's reports also have focused on India and Pakistan, the Central Asian nations of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan, and the Congo.

Shuster has served in Russia as NPR's senior Moscow correspondent. He covered the collapse of the Soviet Union and a wide range of political, economic, and social issues in Russia and the other independent states of the former Soviet Union. Shuster also has been stationed in England as senior editor of NPR's London Bureau, where he covered the unification of Germany, from the announcement of the opening of the Berlin Wall to the establishment of a single currency for that country. For two months, in early 1991, he was assigned to Saudi Arabia to cover the Gulf War.

Before moving to London, Shuster was a reporter and bureau chief at NPR's New York Bureau, and previously served as editor of Weekend All Things Considered. He joined NPR in 1980 as a freelance reporter covering business and economic issues.

89.3 KPCC's Broadcast Journalist Series is made possible by Loyola Marymount University and Mercedes Benz Dealers of Southern California.

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