Carole Radziwill to deliver Amanpour Lecture

Carole Radziwill
Carole Radziwill

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Carole Radziwill will share her experiences as a journalist, best-selling author, and longtime cast member of Bravo’s drama-based reality show, “The Real Housewives of New York City,” when she delivers the University of Rhode Island’s 11th annual Christiane Amanpour Lecture Oct. 24, 2018 at 7 p.m.

Radziwill began her career at ABC News as a journalist working for Peter Jennings. She was part of the coveted documentary unit, “Peter Jennings Reporting,” covering groundbreaking domestic stories, as well as, foreign stories in Haiti, India, and Cambodia. She traveled extensively on the Thai-Cambodian border, reporting and filming in refugee camps and with Khmer Rouge soldiers for the award-winning documentary “From the Killing Fields.” She was stationed in Israel during the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and traveled with Israeli military personnel filming the aftermath of Saddam Hussein’s SCUD missile attacks. In 2001, she spent a month embedded with the 101st Airborne Division in Kandahar during the U.S. led war in Afghanistan, creating the ABC documentary series “Profiles from the Front Line.”