Observer editor to discuss ethics of journalism at Barnhardt Seminar Oct. 23

Glenn Burkins, assistant managing editor of The Charlotte Observer, will be the keynote speaker at UNC Charlotte’s 18th annual Barnhardt Seminar on Ethics and the World of Business on Tuesday, Oct. 23.

Burkins will discuss the ethical issues he faced as a reporter, specifically his experiences in Ebola-plagued Africa in the mid-1990s.

The seminar will take place in the Barnhardt Student Activities Center Salons on the UNC Charlotte campus, beginning with a reception at 6:00 PM and followed by dinner and Burkins’ address at 6:30 PM

The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. To request a seat, RSVP to ethicscenter@uncc.edu.

The Barnhardt Seminar on Ethics and the World of Business is the signature program of UNC Charlotte’s Center for Professional and Applied Ethics. The seminar provides a forum for informed discussion on current global business issues and gives UNC Charlotte students and faculty the opportunity to interact with top business and community leaders in an insightful, reflective exchange. The Barnhardt Seminar is sponsored by William M. Barnhardt with additional support provided from the BB & T Foundation and the Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte.

Burkins is deputy managing editor of The Charlotte Observer. Before joining the Observer as business editor in June 2000, he was a White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal. He also spent four years as the Journal’s labor reporter and covered NATO’s military action to evict the Serb army from Kosovo. Before joining the Journal, he was Africa correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer. From his base in Johannesburg, he covered the genocide in Rwanda, the Ebola outbreak in the former Zaire and the 1994 elections in South Africa. He also was a personal-finance columnist for the Inquirer. Burkins began his career at the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, where he covered Florida tourism and other business topics. He has a degree in journalism from the University of South Carolina.

Additional information on the Barnhardt Seminar is available at www.uncc.edu/ethics/.