Chapel Hill, N.C. — Three award-winning journalists will discuss mounting threats to the global food supply and the challenges of reporting them on Thursday, Oct. 15, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

"HUNGRY? Frontline on the Threats to the Global Food Supply" will also feature new documentary footage reporting on the global food crisis from Africa, Asia and Central America.

The event, free and open to the public, will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the FedEx Global Education Center's Nelson Mandela Auditorium. A reception with the journalists will follow.

The event is a project of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting , a nonprofit center that provides travel grants and other resources to promote independent international journalism covering under-reported topics, encourage high-quality international reporting, and create platforms that reach broad and diverse audiences.

Peter A. Coclanis , UNC's associate provost for international affairs and Albert R. Newsome Professor of History, will moderate. Featured journalists are:

• Fred de Sam Lazaro , director of the Project for Under-Told Stories at St. John's University, in Collegeville, Minn., a program that combines international journalism and teaching. He has served with PBS's The NewsHour since 1985 and is a regular contributor and substitute anchor for Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. He has directed films from India and the Democratic Republic of Congo for the documentary series, "Wide Angle." He has reported from 35 countries, from Haiti to sub-Saharan Africa to south Asia covering AIDS, public health concerns, development issues and social entrepreneurship. He also led the first American crew to report on the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region.
• Samuel Loewenberg , a journalist based in Washington, D.C. He writes on foreign affairs, politics, culture, business, health and poverty. From 2002 to the summer of 2007, Loewenberg was based in Europe, living in Brussels, Madrid and Berlin. He has reported from Beijing, Bucharest, Budapest, Marrakesh, Moscow, Niamey, Rio de Janeiro and Tirana, Albania.
• Sharon Schmickle , freelance journalist with 27 years of experience covering local, national and international news on a wide range of issues. Through mid-2007, Sharon was a reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, most recently as a foreign correspondent. She currently writes for the MinnPost.com. In 2003, she was embedded with the U.S. Marines during the invasion of Iraq and the subsequent war, reporting for the Star Tribune and McClatchy News. She covered the conflict in Afghanistan and has reported from 22 countries on stories ranging from Japan's fear of biotech crops to restless youth in Egypt to tension in France over farm trade.

UNC sponsors for the event are the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), Center for Global Initiatives and UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

For more information, contact Julia Kruse at the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) (919) 962-7843 or ciber@unc.edu, or visit www.kenaninstitute.unc.edu/hungry .