The second year of the School of Journalism Speaker Series kicks off Sept. 17 with Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Bob Woodward, who will speak at 7 p.m. in the IU Auditorium.

Woodward's reporting with fellow Washington Post colleague Carl Bernstein cracked open the Watergate scandal and earned the newspaper a Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Since then, Woodward has written or cowritten 11 national bestsellers, including All the President's Men and Bush at War.









Lisa Ling, host of National Geographic's Emmy Award-winning series, "Explorer," talks Oct. 3, 7 p.m. at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. For the show, Ling has investigated the drug war in Colombia, China's one-child policy, and female suicide bombers in Chechnya and Israel-occupied territories. She also went undercover to report from inside North Korea in 2006.










A member of team of journalists who founded USA Today in 1982, Ken Paulson, editor and senior vice president of news at the newspaper, speaks Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. in Alumni Hall in the IMU. Paulson also was executive director of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University and has served as editor or managing editor for newpapers in five states.










All lectures are free and open to the public.

In its inaugural year, the School of Journalism Speaker Series welcomed Christopher Hitchens, Michelle Norris, Anna Quindlen, David Halberstam, Frank Deford and Alexandra Robbins.