Lecturers and Schedule
 Monday, January 24, Noon
Clark Hall · Room 206
Doug Clifton
Editor, Cleveland Plain Dealer
Covering Cleveland: An Editor’s Perspective
Doug Clifton has been editor of The Cleveland Plain Dealer since June 1999. He joined The Miami Herald in 1970 and over the next 17 years held a variety of reporting and editing assignments, including city editor and deputy managing editor. In 1987 he served as news editor of Knight Ridder’s Washington bureau. He became managing editor of The Charlotte Observer in 1989. Clifton returned to The Miami Herald in 1991 as executive editor. Under his leadership, The Herald won three Pulitzer Prizes, one for meritorious public service in 1992 for coverage of Hurricane Andrew, a second for commentary and a third for investigative reporting. Clifton graduated from Dowling College in Long Island, with a political science degree. He served three years in the U.S. Army, including a year as an artillery officer in Vietnam in the late 1960s.
 Tuesday, February 15, Noon
Clark Hall · Room 206
Laura Lynch
European correspondent, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio
Axis of Understanding: Covering the United States Inside and Out
Prior to her current assignment, Laura Lynch was CBC Radio’s U.S. correspondent based in Washington, DC from 2000-2003. She has extensive experience working abroad including reporting from Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia. Lynch, who holds a law degree, was also a CBC Parliamentary Reporter in Ottawa, Canada, for several years where she helped develop the network’s coverage of the Canadian Supreme Court and the Justice Department. In 1999-2000, Lynch attended Harvard on a prestigious Nieman Fellowship. She has won awards from the Radio and Television News Directors’ Association and the Canadian Association of Journalists, plus the Law Society of B.C. and the New York Festivals for her work.
 Tuesday, March 1, Noon
Guilford Hall Lounge
Jim Morrill
Senior Political Writer,The Charlotte Observer
Along for the Ride: Covering Politicians, from Jesse Helms to John Edwards
Jim Morrill has been with the Charlotte Observer since 1981 and covered politics for the last 20 years. He has covered local and state government as well as state political campaigns. He has most recently followed the John Edwards campaign for the last two years. Morrill is a native of Aurora, Illinois, and graduated from Loyola University in Chicago. After three years in the Peace Corps in Togo,West Africa, he got his Masters in Journalism from the University of Illinois in Champaign. In 1994 Morrill led a workshop for African journalists in the Gambia. In 1997 he took part on a USIA-sponsored trip to Brazil, where he talked about political reporting. Morrill’s reporting has won awards from the North Carolina Press Association and other groups. In 1999 he was selected as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
 Tuesday, March 22, Noon
Clark Hall · Room 206
Jeb Sharp
Correspondent,The World
America through the Eyes of the World: Covering America from Abroad
Jeb Sharp covers U.S. foreign policy for the public radio program The World. She has reported for the program from Europe and the Middle East. Her series on the history of Iraq won the 2003 Lowell Thomas Award for best radio news or interpretation of international affairs from the Overseas Press Club. Before joining the staff of The World in 1998, Sharp was a reporter for public radio station WBUR in Boston and a reporter and news director at Raven Radio, KCAW, in Sitka, Alaska. She has a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.
 Tuesday, April 12, Noon
Clark Hall · Room 206
Katherine Boo
Staff writer,The New Yorker
Beyond Despair: Writing about, and Learning from, America's Poor
Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo’s reporting for The New Yorker from within America’s poorest communities has been recognized with, among other honors, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and a National Magazine Award. She has also won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2000, for her series in the Washington Post on the conditions of the mentally retarded in the city’s group homes. Boo, a Washington D.C. native, is a summa cum laude graduate of Columbia University. Before joining the New Yorker, she worked as a writer and editor for The Washington City Paper,The Washington Monthly, and The Washington Post, where for a decade she was a member of the Outlook and Investigative staffs. She is also a senior fellow at the nonpartisan New America Foundation, where she has been examining how the new global economy affects, in the U.S. and elsewhere, the lives of the aspiration-rich working poor.
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