Investigative journalist to speak in Fairbanks

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
Phone: (907) 474-7902
10/26/06

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Gary Cohn will spend a week in Fairbanks speaking to local journalists, students and the public as part of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Snedden Guest Lecture Series.

Cohn will give a free public lecture, "Taking the Local Investigative Story Global,"? Thursday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. at Noel Wien Library. He will also speak to students and other members of the UAF community at a lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 31 at 9:45 a.m. at Schaible Auditorium.

Cohn has been a reporter with the Los Angeles Times since 2003 and is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism. He has been a reporter for more than two decades and, in 1998, won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for a series of stories in the Baltimore Sun that documented the dangers of dismantling old warships. In addition to the 1998 award, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1996 and 2002 and has received numerous other national awards for his work as a journalist.

The UAF journalism department hosts visiting journalists as part of the Snedden Endowed Chair of Journalism. Helen Snedden made the endowment in honor of her late husband and former Fairbanks Daily News-Miner publisher C.W. Snedden.

CONTACT: Charles Fedullo, UAF journalism department chairman, at (907) 474-7795 or via e-mail at ffcbf@uaf.edu. Marmian Grimes, UAF public information officer, at (907) 474-7902 or via e-mail at marmian.grimes@uaf.edu.