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On the Internet, Class of 1980: Donatella LorchSOURCE: MSN.MSNBC NewsDonatella Lorch, Washington Correspondent Donatella Lorch joined Newsweek's Washington D.C. bureau in November 1999. She has reported on the Department of Justice and the U.S. military and has covered stories in Kosovo, Africa and most recently Afghanistan. Previously, Lorch spent three years as a correspondent for NBC News. While based in London, she covered stories as diverse as Princess Diana's death, the U.S. Embassy bombing in Nairobi, the U.S. bombing of Iraq, the nuclear standoff in the Indian sub-continent and the war in Kosovo. Prior to her work at NBC, Lorch was a reporter for The New York Times, beginning in early 1988 as a stringer in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She took more than a dozen trips inside Afghanistan traveling with and writing about the Mujaheddin guerrillas. In 1989, she was smuggled into Kabul dressed as an Afghan woman to report on the Mujaheddin underground during the Soviet occupation. She covered the Soviet pullout later that year and the fall of the capital, Kabul, in 1992. She also covered the Gulf War from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and American-occupied Iraq and later extensively covered Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan and Zaire, spending almost three years—from Jan. 1993 to Dec. 1995—as East Africa Bureau chief. In mid-1987 Lorch was a relief worker for the International Rescue Committee in Peshawar, Pakistan. She also worked as a tour guide in Mainland China and taught English in Taiwan. Lorch is fluent in French and Italian, proficient in Spanish and has studied Chinese for seven years. In 1996, the Women's Commission on Refugee Women and Children awarded her a prize for "Outstanding Reporting on Refugee Issues." Lorch has given lectures on war reporting and the role of the media in the battlefield for the Army, the Marine Corps and at Columbia and Princeton Universities. She is one of the war correspondents profiled in an exhibit on war reporting that opened in May 2001 at the Freedom Forum's Newseum. In 2002, she was awarded an Alicia Patterson Fellowship and is presently writing a book on refugee resettlement in the United States. Lorch has earned two Master's degrees from Columbia University: one in 1988 in International Affairs and Journalism and one in 1986 in Middle Eastern Cultures. She received her B.A. magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in Oriental Studies/Chinese from Barnard College at Columbia in 1983. SOURCE: http://www.msnbc.com/modules/newsweek/info/nwinfo_lorch.asp |
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