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Thursday, December 4, 2008
11:30 a.m. Book Signing -- "Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Report and Survive the War in Iraq"
12:00 Luncheon and Presentation
1:10 Additional Book Signing
Union League Club Authors Group Presentation
Location of Event: Union League Club, 65 W. Jackson, Chicago
Tickets Available! Please call the TV Academy office at 312-369-8600 by 5:30 pm on Monday, December 1st.
Tickets are $30 and must be ordered through the TV Academy office ahead of time. They can not be purchased at the door.
Kimberly Dozier is a CBS News correspondent working primarily in Baghdad since August 2003. She has covered Iraq and the Middle East extensively for the CBS Evening News, The Early Show and CBS Radio News.
On Memorial Day 2006 (May 29), while reporting a story in Baghdad about American soldiers working with Iraqi security forces, Dozier, cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan were among the victims of a car bombing. Douglas and Brolan were killed, as were U.S. Army Capt. James Alex Funkhouser and his Iraqi translator, "Sam," whom the CBS News team was following. Dozier was seriously wounded, but recovered completely after multiple surgeries and months of physiotherapy.
Prior to her CBS News appointment, she was the chief correspondent for WCBS-TV New York’s Middle East bureau in Jerusalem (February 2002-August 2003), from where she covered the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the war in Iraq. Before that, Dozier served as the London bureau chief and chief European correspondent for CBS Radio News, as well as a reporter for CBS News television (1996-2002). Her assignments included the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the crisis and refugee exodus in the Balkans, Vladimir Putin’s election, the death of Princess Diana, Northern Ireland's peace process and the Khobar barracks bombing in Dhahran. Dozier has interviewed dozens of newsmakers, including Gerry Adams and Yassir Arafat. In addition to her work for CBS Radio News, she also reported for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, the CBS Evening News weekend editions, The Early Show and CBS Newspath, the Network’s 24-hour news service.
Dozier was an anchor for BBC Radio World Service’s "World Update" (1996-98), a co-production with Public Radio International, where she anchored the hour-long, live foreign affairs broadcast, among other programs. Dozier is the recipient of a 2008 Peabody Award and the 2008 RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow Award for Feature Reporting. She also has received several other awards and honors.
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