The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

The New School's Graduate Program of International Affairs hosts a conversation between Gary Younge and Ian Buruma to analyze how the media reports on President Barack Obama. 

Gary Younge is a Guardian columnist and feature writer based in the US. He was formerly the paper's New York correspondent. His most recent book is Stranger in a Strange Land: Encounters in the Disunited States; he is also the author of No Place Like Home. Younge has won the prestigious James Cameron Prize for his reporting on Obama and the presidential election.

Ian Buruma is currently the Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College. He has delivered lectures at various academic and cultural institutions such as Oxford, Princeton, and Harvard. In addition, Buruma writes on a broad range of political and cultural subjects for major publications including The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Corriere della Sera, and NRC Handelsblad.