Author Oliver Poole to Speak at Richmond

18/09/2008

Daily Telegraph Bureau Chief in Baghdad to Speak at Richmond

Author Oliver Poole, the former Daily Telegraph bureau chief in Baghdad, will discuss how the media portrays terrorism and how terrorists use the media at 17:30 on October 3rd, 2008 in Young Street Lecture Hall. Oliver Poole is coming to talk to the Communications 231 class (Signs, Image and Meaning) but the talk is open to the Richmond University community. The class is devoting a week studying the image of terror.

Oliver Poole is a British journalist who worked for The Telegraph Group from 1999 to late 2006. In 2003, he was the first reporter from any country and in any medium to reach Baghdad’s outskirts with the US troops. In January 2005, he established and headed The Daily Telegraph’s bureau in Baghdad’s ‘Red Zone,’ one of the most dangerous places on earth. He survived the suicide bombing of his office in Baghdad, which eventually led to the paper closing its Iraq’s office in late 2006. Poole graduated from Oxford University and has written two books about the war in Iraq.

His account of the 2003 invasion, Black Knights: On The Bloody Road To Baghdad (HarperCollins) sold over 30,000 copies.

Red Zone: Five Bloody Years In Baghdad was published on 3rd April, 2008 by Reportage Press. A percentage of proceeds will go to the charity International Pen, which helped Poole's translator flee from the terrorists targeting to kill him for working for the foreign press.

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