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April 15 is First Amendment DayBy Trent Nusbaum Iowa State celebrated freedom of speech during the second annual First Amendment Day April 15, the Thursday of VEISHEA week. The day began with an 11 a.m. feast on central campus accompanied by live debates focusing on current social issues. Petition tables were on hand for those students looking to do their part on First Amendment Day, The day concluded with a presentation in the Memorial Union’s Sun Room, “Attacks on the Press—Not just Abroad?” given by journalists Terry Anderson, Ann Cooper and Larry Heinzerling.
Anderson, who graduated from Iowa State in 1974 with degrees in journalism and mass communication and political science, is the author of the national bestseller “Den of Lions,” which details his experience as an Associated Press correspondent held hostage in Lebanon for seven years by Shiite Muslim militants. Anderson, who was freed in 1991, also wrote and narrated a prize-winning CNN and PBS documentary “Return to the Den of Lions” that deals with his return to Lebanon and that country’s recovery from a 16-year civil war. Anderson is also an honorary co-chairman with Walter Cronkite on the Committee to Protect Journalists, which works to defend press freedom across the world.
Ann Cooper, who earned a degree in home economics journalism in 1971 from Iowa State, is executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. She has worked as a reporter in the former Soviet Union, Africa and Washington, D.C. In 1987, Cooper began a five year stretch as NPR’s first Moscow bureau chief where she covered the failed coup attempt and co-edited the book, “Russia at the Barricades.” She also won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for her work in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Larry Heinzerling has worked for the Associated Press for 35 years as a reporter, editor, bureau chief, corporate executive, and currently as the deputy international editor for World Services. In the 1980s, Heinzerling worked three years in Beirut as a journalist-diplomat as part of the Associated Press’ behind-the-scenes efforts to free Terry Anderson.
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