CHICAGO, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Tribune Media Services, the syndication
and licensing unit of Tribune Company, today announced at the 61st World
Newspaper Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, its international syndication
of Samantha Power's TIME magazine column on world affairs.
Acknowledged as one of the most respected new voices in foreign-policy
analysis, Power, 37, is Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and
Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
She also served as foreign-policy adviser to Democratic presidential
candidate Barack Obama.
Power is the author of two best-selling books, including "'A Problem
from Hell': America and the Age of Genocide," which won the Pulitzer in
2002. Her latest best-seller, "Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello
and the Fight to Save the World," chronicles the life of a U.N. diplomat
from Brazil who was killed in a suicide bombing of U.N. headquarters in
Baghdad in 2003.
TMS will have exclusive rights to sell her TIME column to international
markets, according to Mary Elson, TMS managing editor. "We are thrilled to
have a columnist of Samantha Power's stature and knowledge in the TMS
lineup," she said.
Power became a TIME columnist in 2007 and has covered such subjects as
Canada's role in the war in Afghanistan, implications of continuing ethnic
tensions in Kosovo, U.S. policy in Iran and Turkey and the plight of Iraqi
refugees.
Power has also been profiled in many major publications.
About Tribune Media Services
Tribune Media Services (TMS) is a leading provider of information and
entertainment products for print, electronic and on-air media in the United
States and abroad. It distributes TV and movie listings and related
editorial content under the TMS and Zap2it brands; syndicates comics,
editorial cartoons, feature articles and opinion columns; creates and
distributes a variety of online information products; licenses editorial
content from national periodicals; and manages national advertising
networks. TMS also markets news, features, information graphics and
multimedia content to media clients around the world through the
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. Headquartered in Chicago, with
offices in New York, Glens Falls, N.Y., Dallas, Houston, Milwaukee,
Amsterdam, London, Hong Kong and Amman, Jordan, TMS is a subsidiary of
Tribune Company. For more information about TMS and its products and
services, visit http://www.tms.tribune.com.
For more information, contact:
Mary Elson
Managing Editor
Tribune Media Services
312.222.4423 melson@tribune.com
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Mary Elson, Managing Editor of Tribune Media
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