Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist to speak in Fairbanks Oct. 19
October 17, 2011
Emmy award-winning journalist Cheryl W. Thompson will give a
free public lecture,
“Guns in America,” 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, in the Noel Wien Library auditorium.
Thompson is an investigative reporter for the Washington Post
who has written extensively about government corruption, immigration,
the Drug Enforcement
Administration and the Washington, D.C. police
department’s handling of homicide
investigations.
Most recently, she tracked guns used to kill more than 500 police
officers — including
several in Alaska — since 2000. The
groundbreaking series examined how the killers,
many of them felons,
got their firearms.
The UAF Journalism Department is hosting
the event as part of the Snedden Endowed Chair of Journalism. It is
made
possible by a generous gift from Helen Snedden in honor of her
late husband, C.W.
Snedden, former Fairbanks Daily News-Miner owner
and publisher.
For more information call the UAF Journalism Department at 474-7761.