The Future of Opinion Journalism
Paul Gigot
Tuesday, 21 Sep 2010 at 8:00 pm – Stephens Auditorium, Iowa State Center
Paul Gigot is the editorial page editor and vice president of The Wall Street Journal. He is responsible for the newspaper's editorials, op-ed articles and Leisure & Arts criticism and directs the editorial pages of the Journal's Asian and European editions and the OpinionJournal.com website. He is also the host of the weekly half-hour news program The Journal Editorial Report on the Fox News Channel. Gigot became the Journal's Asia correspondent in 1982 and was named the first editorial page editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal. In 1987 he was assigned to Washington, where he contributed editorials and a weekly column on politics, "Potomac Watch," which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. He will share lessons he learned from Iowa State journalism alumnus Bob Bartley, who was editor of The Wall Street Journal editorial pages for thirty years, winning a Pulitzer Prize and honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom as "one of the most influential journalists in American history." The 2010 Chamberlin Lecture.This lecture was taped and broadcast as part of Iowa Public Television's Intelligent Talk Television. Watch it online: click here.
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Cosponsored By:
- Chamberlin Lecture Fund
- Greenlee School of Journalism & Communication
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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