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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
by: Gwen DeBenedetto

Larry Rohter

The long-time Brazil-based South America correspondent for the New York Times, Larry Rohter, will visit Seton Hall to speak to the University community on Tuesday, March 17. The event will be held at 4 p.m. in the Diplomacy Room of McQuaid Hall. Mr. Rohter will speak on "Brazil and the World Crisis: Opportunities and Dangers for a Rising Regional Power." All are welcome to attend.
 
Larry Rohter began his career as a journalist in 1971, at the New York Bureau of Rede Globo de Televisao, Brazil's largest media conglomerate. He then worked as a culture reporter in the Style Section of the Washington Post for three years before going to Brazil in 1977 as a correspondent for Newsweek magazine. From 1982 through 1984 he was Newsweek's Asian Regional Editor, based in China but traveling widely, from Japan to Pakistan. 

He joined The New York Times in 1985 and was a correspondent in Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean before returning to Brazil in January 1999 as Rio de Janeiro bureau chief. He remained in that post until August 2007, when he went on leave to wrote a book about Brazil. That book, "Deu no New York Times" was published in November 2008 and has been on best-seller lists in Brazil ever since.

After returning to the Times, he covered the 2008 American presidential election, accompanying both party's candidates on the campaign trail. He is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and the East Asian Institute of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. 

For more information please contact:
Anthony DePalma
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depalman@shu.edu