Former Review editor to discuss reporting from Iraq

2:33 p.m., March 2, 2004--Archie Tse, a graphics editor at The New York Times and former executive editor of The Review, will discuss “Reporting from Iraq: A Visual Journalist’s Perspective,” at 7 p.m., Monday, March 8, in 116 Gore Hall.

The talk is free and open to the public.

As one of the first graphic reporters from America to be sent to Iraq, Tse’s assignment was to report and create graphics for The Times.

Tse will discuss why a newspaper would send a graphics person so far afield and how such a reporter views events and developing news through a different prism than that of a print reporter. He also will address how readers benefit from getting their news through such a diversity of vantage points.

Allowed to climb down into Saddam’s secret hiding place, Tse will discuss the work he did for The Times in its coverage of the capture of the former president of Iraq.

Besides comparing first- and second-day coverage of such events, Tse will talk about some of the ethical issues that confront visual journalists. He also will do an exercise with audience members to let them try their hand at being a visual journalist.

Tse, who attended UD from 1986-93, was on the staff of The Review from 1989-92, and was executive editor during the 1991-92 academic year, when the paper won its first-ever Pacemaker Award from the Associated Collegiate Press. He also was the recipient of five national awards for layout and design in a competition sponsored by the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

Though Tse did not graduate from UD, he credits UD’s English-journalism program and The Review for launching his career in newspapers.

Recent assignments for The Times include coordinating the graphics coverage of the U.S. elections and the release of data from the 2000 census. Before going to work for The Times, Tse worked for two years as a graphics artist for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

After a decade of working professionally, Tse took a one-year leave of absence from The Times to complete an undergraduate degree in urban studies at Cleveland State University.

For more information, call 831-2361.

Article by Jerry Rhodes

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