“From The Battlefield To Post-Industrial America” How One Reporter Roamed The World Before Returning Home To Create His Own Outlet
Thursday, April 18, 2024
5:30pm
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Contact: 330-259-9651
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1000 Fifth Avenue.
Youngstown, Ohio 44504
A portion of all proceeds from YPC events will go to the Youngstown Press Club Scholarship Fund.
Carmen Gentile is a journalist, author and public speaker who is the founder of Postindustrial Media. He covered the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and various other conflicts for outlets like USA TODAY, CBS News, Esquire and others.
He founded Postindustrial, a media outlet covering the Rust Belt, Appalachia and post-industrial communities around the world, in 2018.
Carmen is the author of the memoir Blindsided by the Taliban, a dark-humored retelling of his unusual injury in Afghanistan while embedded with American troops near the Pakistani border. In September 2010, Gentile was shot in the side of the head with a rocket-propelled grenade that did not detonate, although it blinded him in his right eye and crushed part of his skull
Born in New Kensington, Pa., he graduated from Villanova University with a degree in philosophy and Islamic studies.
Gentile is the recipient of the Galloway Award, named for UPI combat correspondent and McClatchy Newspapers’ columnist Joseph Galloway, for a story in Salon that is excerpted from Blindsided by the Taliban.
Sponsored by: The Edward M. Barr Foundation
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