The first speaker, Margaret Warner, is the chief foreign correspondent for PBS NewsHour and has covered wars, revolutions and political developments all around the world, including Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, China, Russia, Mexico and all of Europe, according to an IU press release.
She will speak at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 2 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.
About a month later, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Walt Bogdanich of the New York Times will speak at 7 p.m. March 10 in Whittenberger Auditorium of the Indiana Memorial Union.
As an investigative reporter, Bogdanich has uncovered flaws in how local police handle rape cases on college campuses such as Florida State University, corporate cover-ups involving fatal railway crossings and toxic substances in imported Chinese products, according to the press release.
To finish up the semester, Eric Deggans will speak at 7 p.m. March 30 in the Moot Court Room of the IU Maurer School of Law.
Deggans is an IU alumnus and was National Public Radio’s first television critic when he was hired in 2013.
Before this, he was at the Tampa Bay Times as a reporter, critic and opinion columnist, according to the press release.
Some of his recent stories with NPR hit on issues such as white privilege and how it’s involved with the Sony hack and torture depictions on television, according to the press release.
He also chairs the Media Monitoring Committee for the National Association of Black Journalists.
This past fall the Speaker Series hosted Jose Antonio Vargas, who worked closely with immigration articles last year, Katherine Boo, who documented the lives of people in poverty, and Carolyn Jones, who worked with multimedia - including photography and documentaries - to show international issues.
All lectures are free and open to the public.
The lectures are meant to give students and area residents the chance to meet with and hear stories from today’s top media professionals, according to the Speaker Series’ website.
Suzanne Grossman
