The Press, the Presidency and the Campaign
Steve Thomma
Thursday, 21 Apr 2016 at 7:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Steve Thomma is Senior White House Correspondent and political editor for McClatchy. A former president of White House Correspondents Association, Thomma has written about Washington issues since 1987. Before joining the Washington Bureau's national staff in 1994, he was the St. Paul Pioneer Press's Washington correspondent and won the National Press Club's award for best regional reporting. He previously worked for the Pioneer Press in Minnesota, the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette in Indiana and City News Bureau in Chicago. Thomma won the Aldo Beckman Award for distinguished White House coverage for his campaign work in 2000. First Amendment Day SeriesCosponsored By:
- First Amendment Day Planning Committee
- Greenlee School of Journalism & Communication
- Iowa State Daily
- Society of Professional Journalists - ISU Chapter
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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