How are you informed about the sectarian conflict in Iraq?

What is your perspective on the political turmoil in Ukraine?

Where do you get your information about the civil war in Syria?

“How U.S. Media Cover International News” is the topic of a panel discussion at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 9, at the Denver Press Club, 1330 Glenarm Place. The program, sponsored by the Colorado Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, is free and open to the public. The panelists are Ann Imse, Peter Eichstaedt and Joe McGowan.

Imse is the founding editor and contributing writer at Colorado Public News. Before helping establish CPN in 2009, she was a reporter for 14 years at the Rocky Mountain News. Prior to joining the News, she served as Moscow correspondent for The Associated Press for three years. She is the co-author, along with Stuart Loory, of “Seven Days that Shook the World: The Collapse of Soviet Communism” published in 1991.

Eichstaedt is the former country director in Afghanistan and former Africa editor for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. He worked in the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Afghanistan and Eastern Africa as well as the Hague, Netherlands, where he covered the African war crime trials. He is the author of six books including “The Dangerous Divide: Peril and Promise on the U.S.-Mexico Border” which was published in May.

McGowan is the former Denver AP bureau chief. He also served as bureau chief in India and Peru. After retiring from The AP in 1997, McGowan taught journalism in Chile, Pakistan, Venezuela, Panama, El Salvador, Mexico and Mongolia. An exclusive interview with Fidel Castro in December 1962 is one of many stories about his AP career in “From Fidel Castro to Mother Teresa.”

Jim Anderson, The AP news editor for Colorado, Montana and Wyoming, will be the panel moderator. He joined AP in Mexico City and has worked in Los Angeles, New York, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Caracas, Venezuela reporting throughout the Caribbean and Central and South America.