Conversations with Chris Hansen, Dateline NBC Correspondent: Beyond "To Catch a Predator" Feb. 9

Date: Feb. 9, 2009
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Booker Hall of Music, Camp Concert Hall

Dateline NBC correspondent Chris Hansen will visit the University of Richmond campus on Monday, February 9 for a special conversation, "Beyond 'To Catch a Predator,'" which will be held in Booker Hall's Camp Concert Hall at 7 p.m.

Honored with seven Emmy Awards for his investigative reporting, Dateline NBC correspondent Chris Hansen talks about his varied career including reporting on the 9/11 attacks, investigating slave labor in India's silk trade and his breakthrough investigative reporting series on online sexual predators, "To Catch A Predator." In the series, eleven dramatic hidden camera investigations exposed over 250 men who target young teenagers over the Internet.

In April 2007, he reported in "To Catch an ID Thief," an unprecedented investigation into the massive billion-dollar epidemic of identity theft. Using Dateline's signature hidden camera techniques, the report followed the trails of an international identity theft ring, capturing for the first time on network television how the crime works and some of the people that may be behind the process. Hansen's visit to Richmond marks the unique collaboration between residential and academic programs developed over the course of three years through the President's College Fellow program of Richmond College.

Additional sponsors include the University of Richmond Quest, Cultural Affairs Committee, Modlin Center for the Arts and the Department of Journalism.

Tickets are free but required. A limited number of tickets will be made available to the public. Call the Modlin Center Box Office at (804) 289-8980.

Posted December 11, 2008