Kevin Klose ©2004 NPR, Inc. by Jay Paul

Under the leadership of Kevin Klose, National Public Radio has reached new audiences and dramatically increased its listenership in the last decade. Doctoral students and faculty will learn more about America’s premier nonprofit news and cultural radio programming service when Klose delivers the Walden University residency plenary at the July academic residency in Minneapolis.

A former editor and national and foreign correspondent with The Washington Post for 25 years, Klose is an award-winning author and international broadcasting executive. Prior to joining National Public Radio in 1998, Klose served as director for the U.S. government’s global radio and television news services. He also served as president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, broadcasting to Central Europe and the former Soviet Union.

In 2006, Klose received the Edward R. Murrow Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Radio. He previously was awarded the Overseas Press Club’s Cornelius Ryan Award, for the best nonfiction in international affairs, for his book Russia and the Russians: Inside the Closed Society, published in 1984. Klose is a former Woodrow Wilson National Fellow. The fellowship program, begun in 1945, is famous for having helped to create a generation of distinguished college teachers and intellectual leaders.

‘Perspectives on the World’ series
The plenary is part of Walden’s “Perspectives on the World” series that brings diverse global views to the Walden community. Past speakers include Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for The Atlantic and former correspondent for The New Yorker. At Walden’s April academic residency in Lansdowne, Va., Goldberg shared his views on the possibility for reconciliation in the Middle East. At the June international residency held at the University of Liverpool, Dr. John Belchem, a University of Liverpool professor, discussed Liverpool’s history and how the city is preparing for the future.

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