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Moni Basu

Michael and Linda Connelly Lecturer for Narrative Nonfiction

Department of Journalism

University of Florida

Moni Basu is an award winning journalist who began her career in Florida with the Tallahassee Democrat and The Florida Flambeau.

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Basu worked for CNN for nine years, covering the Iraqi War from its inception. She wrote Chaplain Turner’s War from a series of Atlanta Journal-Constitution stories on an Army chaplain serving in Iraq. She also was a distinguished professor of practice in the University of Georgia’s narrative nonfiction MFA program.

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I teach at the University of Florida and I am finding enormous interest among my students to pursue careers in magazines. The current generation of college students is deeply interested in engaging in journalism with empathy. Many of my students are producing deeply reported stories that help us gain a b Moni Basu - Agate Publishing KAFAF