Across Generations: Covering Foreign Affairs and National Security

On March 16 at 6:00 pm journalists Molly Sinclair McCartney, formerly of the Washington Post and Robert McCartney, Washington Post Correspondent will celebrate the donation of the papers of national security reporter James McCartney to the Booth Family Center for Special Collections. They will give a lecture discussing international journalism and the military-industrial complex issues covered in the recently released America's War Machine: Vested Interests, Endless Conflicts by James McCartney and Molly Sinclair McCartney. 

Molly Sinclair McCartney is a journalist with more than 30 years as a reporter at five different newspapers, including 10 years at the Miami Herald and nearly 15 years at the Washington Post, where she wrote under the byline Molly Sinclair. She has a degree in liberal studies from Georgetown University. She was a Nieman Fellow, class of 1978, at Harvard University and completed that year with a three-month-long trip around the world. She has a certificate in photography and graphic arts from the Ringling College of Arts and Science – skills she used to do the graphics for James McCartney's speeches about the American war machine. She is a Florida resident and a contributing writer to a Sarasota business magazine. She also writes occasional opinion columns for the Sarasota Herald Tribune.

Robert McCartney is The Post’s senior regional correspondent, covering politics and policy in the greater Washington, D.C. He also does a Friday radio analysis on local issues on WAMU (88.5 FM), and has been a regular guest on local television stations WTTG Fox 5 and News Channel. Since joining The Post in 1982, McCartney has held a wide variety of jobs including Foreign Editor, national security editor, foreign correspondent in Mexico and Germany, and Managing Editor of The International Herald Tribune in Paris. As a reporter, McCartney covered the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua in the mid-1980s.

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6:00 pm
Murray Room, 5th floor, Lauinger Library
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