VOA chief national correspondent to speak at Sept. 8 American Legion Post 20 meeting

Voice of America's chief national correspondent, Steve Herman, will be the guest speaker at the National Press Club American Legion Post 20 meeting at noon Thursday, Sept. 8, in the McClendon Room.

The meeting is open to all Club members. Those unable to attend in person can RSVP to Post 20 Sergeant-at-Arms Evelyn Moy at [email protected] and receive a link to join the meeting virtually.

Herman will discuss the war in Ukraine, and efforts to get accurate information into Ukraine and Russia. Herman has served as a VOA correspondent and bureau chief in India, Korea and Thailand. He also served in 2016 as VOA's senior diplomatic correspondent, based at the State Department, before covering Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden as VOA's White House bureau chief.

His travels have taken him to approximately 75 countries, doing on-scene reporting from combat zones, civil uprisings and areas struck by major natural disasters. He's a former president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan and the Seoul Foreign Correspondents' Club.