Notre Dame to host conversation on journalism during violent conflict | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › Notre Dame to host conversation on journalism during violent conflict Notre Dame to host conversation on journalism during violent conflict Published: March 28, 2019 Author: Sue Ryan Diane Foley Diane M. Foley, the mother of slain journalist James Foley, and Itai Anghel, Israeli correspondent and documentary filmmaker, will discuss reporting in places of dangerous conflict April 8 (Monday) from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the University of Notre Dame Eck Visitors Center auditorium.   “An Evening Remembering James Foley: Journalism and Social Justice” is free and open to the public. A question and answer session with attendees will follow presentations from Foley and Anghel.   James Foley was kidnapped by ISIS on Nov. 22, 2012, in northern Syria while reporting for GlobalPost and Agence France-Presse. He was murdered in August 2014. Less than a month after his public execution, Diane Foley founded the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation to memorialize her son’s work. The foundation has a four-part mission to inspire, educate and develop high school and university students to serve as humanitarians; build awareness of the importance of journalism in the protection of democracies around the world; advocate for the release of American hostages kidnapped abroad and stimulate research on current American hostage policy; and protect the rights of independent conflict journalists to report safely from conflict zones.   She serves as the foundation’s president and has led the efforts to fund the start of Hostage US and the international Alliance for a Culture of Safety. In 2015, she participated in the National Counterterrorism Center hostage review which culminated in the Presidential Policy Directive-30, which re-organized U.S. efforts on behalf of Americans taken hostage abroad.   Anghel, who received the 2017 Sokolov Award — the highest prize for journalism in Israel — has primarily covered conflict zones around the world. During his career, Anghel has reported from Croatia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Rwanda, Egypt, Iraq, Syria and other locations. In recent years, his assignments took him to the front line against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and he is the only Israeli journalist to report on ISIS from within.   Anghel is a staff reporter for Uvda, a television news program in Israel. He is also a documentary filmmaker and lecturer on world conflicts at Tel Aviv University and the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, a private research university in Herzliya, Israel. He is currently a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan.     “An Evening Remembering James Foley: Journalism and Social Justice” is sponsored by the John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics and Democracy in conjunction with Notre Dame International. Posted In: Community News Home Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Related September 30, 2022 New prison education initiative joins Center for Social Concerns September 19, 2022 Notre Dame Stories: Helping the Last of the Instrument Makers September 15, 2022 South Bend offers free, pre-approved house plans with input from Notre Dame September 12, 2022 Notre Dame dedicates new hydro facility along St. Joseph River in South Bend August 30, 2022 School of Architecture’s community regeneration efforts lead to $2.4M development grant for South Bend For the Media Contact Office of Public Affairs and Communications Notre Dame News 500 Grace Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Pinterest © 2022 University of Notre Dame Search Mobile App News Events Visit Accessibility Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn