Past Event! Note: this event has already taken place.
| When: | Thursday, November 13th, 2025 |
| Time: | 7:00 pm — 9:00 pm |
| Location: | Richcraft Hall, Atrium (2nd Floor) |
| Audience: | Anyone |
| Cost: | Free |
| Contact: | journalism@carleton.ca |
2025 Peter Stursberg Foreign Correspondents Lecture
Human reporting from Sudan and beyond — a remedy for selective empathy?
featuring Yousra Elbagir, Sky News Africa Correspondent
“As journalists, we aren’t just tasked with presenting facts and figures but should be making the world a smaller place. Through reporting on my country’s revolution and ignored war, I have learnt that human reporting is a powerful tool to foster compassion in an increasingly divided world. I have taken this with me wherever I report and will share it through anecdotes and some valuable hard-earned lessons.”
About Yousra Elbagir
Yousra Elbagir is currently the Sky News Africa correspondent covering major events and stories across the continent, from natural disasters to civil unrest and conflict. Most notably, her reports from the frontline of Sudan’s war have uncovered the scale of devastation in the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis. But she’s also provided exclusive live coverage that captured the fall of Eastern Congo’s regional capital Goma to M23. Elbagir has previously reported for Channel 4 News, the Financial Times and was an international correspondent for Vice News on HBO.
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About the Peter Stursberg Foreign Correspondents Lecture
Since its launch in 2017, the annual Peter Stursberg Foreign Correspondents Lecture, named in honour of the legendary Second World War correspondent, has explored the work of foreign correspondents and their coverage of conflict.
The annual Stursberg lecture, now in its ninth year, was created in honour of legendary Canadian war correspondent Peter Stursberg, who pioneered radio coverage of the Second World War for the CBC. Notably, Stursberg and other war correspondents of that era, spoke of the societal pressures they faced and a sense that they were expected to support the war effort through their reporting.
Stursberg passed away at the age of 101 in 2014, and his children Judith Lawrie and Richard Stursberg endowed the annual talk in his honour. The Stursberg lecture is one of two initiatives created by the family within Carleton’s journalism program to honour their father. The other is the Peter Stursberg Award in Conflict Journalism and Media Studies. This award was intended to help a student in Carleton’s Master of Journalism program complete a thesis or journalism project on a subject related to human conflict, the media and conflict studies, or conflict resolution, reconciliation or reconstruction.
Over the years, the Stursberg lecture has featured some incredible correspondents: Lyse Doucet (BBC), Janine de Giovanni, Adrienne Arsenault (CBC), Larry Madowo (then at BBC), Nima Elbagir (CNN), Giancarlo Fiorella (senior researcher, Bellingcat), Veronika Melkozerova (Politico), Shrouq Al Aila (Ain Media) and Gideon Levy (Haaretz).