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CBS broadcaster Byron Pitts talked about his career during a visit in fall 2012.

The School of Journalism Speaker Series gives students and area residents the opportunity to meet with some of the top media professionals in the country. Recent speakers include CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan, author Gay Talese, The New York Times' David Brooks and Fox Sports' Joe Buck.

The School of Journalism Faculty Lectureship brings to campus an exemplary media professional or a distinguished media scholar. The lecturer is nominated and chosen by the School of Journalism faculty.

All lectures are free and open to the public.

 

Spring 2013

The Indiana University School of Journalism will welcome a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, the chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times and a National Public Radio news anchor as part of its lineup of spring 2013 speakers. All events are free and open to the public.


Seymour Hersh
7 p.m. Feb. 20
Buskirk-Chumley Theater
114 E. Kirkwood Ave.

Seymour Hersh has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine since 1993. His work focuses on military and security issues, from exposing the 1969 My Lai massacre and its cover up during the Vietnam conflict to more recent exposes on the mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison.

In addition to his 1970 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, Hersh is the recipient of five George Polk Awards, a National Book Award and the George Orwell Award. His bestselling books include The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House, The Dark Side of Camelot and Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib.

He will give the journalism school’s Roy W. Howard Lecture.


Maria Hinojosa
5:30 p.m. March 5
Buskirk-Chumley Theater
114 E. Kirkwood Ave.

In addition to her work on NPR’s show Latino USA, Maria Hinojosa is anchor of the Emmy Award-winning talk show Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One, and she rotates as an anchor for PBS’ Need to Know.

Hinojosa has reported on topics ranging from immigrant work camps in New Orleans after Katrina to teen victims of sexual harassment on the job. Her coverage of the poor in Alabama and her pieces on 9/11 earned two of her four Emmy Awards.

She also won the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Reporting on the Disadvantaged, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award and the Edward R. Murrow Award.


David Sanger
5 p.m. March 28
Moot Court Room
IU Maurer School of Law

As chief Washington correspondent of The New York Times, David Sanger reports on foreign policy, globalization, nuclear proliferation and Asian affairs. In his 27 years at the Times, he has covered international events as Tokyo bureau chief, focused on the high tech trade as a business reporter and served as investigative reporter into national issues.

Sanger’s latest book, Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power, is an account of the current administration’s use of innovative weapons such as drones and cyber warfare. He twice has been a member of Times reporting teams that won the Pulitzer Prize.

His visit is co-sponsored by the Center on Congress and the Institute for Advanced Study. He will receive the Lee H. Hamilton Public Service Fellowship while on campus.

Speaker archive:

Andrew Ferguson
Rajiv Chandrasekaran	Byron Pitts	David Margolick	Katharine Weymouth
Gay Talese	Lara Logan	Thomas Friedman	David Brooks
Sheryl WuDunn	John F. Burns	Ken Auletta	Anna Quindlen
Jeff Zaslow	Vivian Schiller	Joe Buck	James Burke
Steve Kroft	Sylvia Nasar	Elizabeth Gilbert	Nina Totenberg
Leonard Downie	Andrea Koppel	William Safire	Michael Beschloss
Bob Woodward	Lisa Ling	Ken Paulson	David Halberstam
Frank Deford	Alexandra Robbins	Christopher Hitchens	Michele Norris

2011 Centennial Speaker Series Panels:

• The Will Counts Memorial Lecture on Photojournalism featured alumni Michel du Cille, BA'85; Melissa Farlow, BA'84; and Bill Foley, '77, BA'07.
• The Roy W. Howard Lecture on Media Leadership featured alumni Gerry Kern, BA'71; Paul Tash, BA'76; and moderator Carrie Ritchie, BAJ'08.
• A Conversation with Magazine Editors featured Christie Griffin, BAJ'04; Colin Kearns, BAJ'04; Chad Millman, BA'93; and Chandra Czape Turner, BAJ'96.