Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist to speak in Fairbanks Oct. 19

October 17, 2011

Marmian Grimes

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.