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Kristina Borjesson on the Campbell Conversations

Investigative journalist Kristina Borjesson

Part 1 of the interview:

As a broadcast journalist working for CBS and CNN, Kristina Borjesson experienced first-hand corporate push-back and retaliation for her investigative work on the crash of TWA Flight 800.  But she channeled that experience into two books, which draw out other prominent media figures to share their own experiences of corporate and government censorship.  This week on the Campbell Conversations, Grant Reeher engages Borjesson in a provocative discussion of the books and the issues they raise.

Part two of the interview:

In 1996, Kristina Borjesson was a broadcast journalist assigned to cover the crash of TWA Flight 800.  As she dug deeper into the story, she experienced push-back from corporate executives and government officials, and was ultimately dismissed.  She has recently produced and directed a documentary about the crash, and on this week’s edition of the Campbell Conversations, host Grant Reeher continues the conversation he started with her last week about corporate and government censorship of news reporting, as she experienced it through this event.

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Editor's note: In part of the interview, Borjesson says that Bob Parry was let go from his job at NBC for his Iran-Contra reporting. Borjesson later corrected that, noting that Parry was let go from Newsweek.

Grant Reeher is Director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute and a professor of political science at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He is also creator, host and program director of “The Campbell Conversations” on WRVO, a weekly regional public affairs program featuring extended in-depth interviews with regional and national writers, politicians, activists, public officials, and business professionals.