{"id":1991,"date":"2009-03-12T12:19:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T20:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2009-03-12T12:19:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T20:19:54","slug":"africa-forward-with-cyrus-farivar-march-26-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/12\/africa-forward-with-cyrus-farivar-march-26-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Forward with Cyrus Farivar (March 26, 2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=56619208150\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/profile.ak.facebook.com\/object3\/1284\/95\/n56619208150_7558.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=56619208150\">Africa Forward with Cyrus Farivar<\/a><br \/>\nThursday, March 26, 2009<br \/>\n3:30pm &#8211; 5:30pm<br \/>\n5055 Vilas Hall<br \/>\n821 University Avenue<br \/>\nMadison, WI<\/p>\n<p>Need inspiration on how to apply your interests in African Studies and Journalism after graduation?<\/p>\n<p>Come and meet Cyrus Farivar to find out how he went from studying abroad in UW\u2019s Senegal program in 2003 to reporting for National Public Radio and The New York Times within five years of graduation.<\/p>\n<p>Cyrus Farivar is a freelance technology journalist, radio reporter\/producer, and self-described wanderlust geek. He regularly reports for PRI\u2019s The World, National Public Radio and CBC. Farviar also writes for The Economist, Foreign Policy, Slate, The New York Times, PC World, and Wired.<\/p>\n<p>AFRICA FORWARD links current UW-Madison students with professionals in all fields whose careers have been inspired and enriched by their study of Africa. <\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the African Studies Program and the School of Journalism &#038; Mass Communication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Forward with Cyrus Farivar Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:30pm &#8211; 5:30pm 5055 Vilas Hall 821 University Avenue Madison, WI Need inspiration on how to apply your interests in African Studies and Journalism after graduation? Come and meet Cyrus Farivar to find out how he went from studying abroad in UW\u2019s Senegal program in 2003 to reporting for National Public Radio and The New York Times within five years of graduation. Cyrus Farivar is a freelance technology journalist, radio reporter\/producer,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-africa","category-madison","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-w7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}