CNU's Friends of the Trible Library Hosts Lecture
Featuring Emmy Award-Winning Journalist Roger Mudd
Event is Free & Open to the Public
News Release - October 27, 2009
Media Contact:
Lori Jacobs,
Director of Public Relations
lori.jacobs@cnu.edu
(757) 594-7961
(NEWPORT NEWS, VA) - Christopher Newport University's Friends of the Trible Library will host a lecture featuring Emmy Award-winning American journalist Roger Mudd. The lecture will take place on Thursday, November 19 at 4 p.m. in the Ferguson Center for the Arts Music & Theatre Hall. A reception and book signing of Mudd's memoir, The Place to Be/Washington, CBS and the Glory Days of Television News, will immediately follow. The event is free and open to the public. No reservation is required.
Roger Mudd was with The History Channel from its launching in January 1995 as a host, interviewer and anchor until his retirement in 2004. His memoir, The Place To Be/Washington, CBS and the Glory Days of Television News, was published in 2008 and in 2009 won the Library of Virginia's People's Choice Award for Non-Fiction. During the 1990s he was the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University and a visiting professor of journalism at Washington & Lee. From 1961 to 1980 Mudd was the congressional correspondent and national affairs correspondent at CBS News, followed by seven years at NBC News and five years at the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour.
In 1979 he received the George Foster Peabody Award for CBS Reports: Teddy and the 1970 Peabody for The Selling of the Pentagon. He also received five Emmys for his work at CBS. In 1990, with MacNeil/Lehrer, he received the Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for Distinguished Washington Reporting. In 1999 he received the first Sydney Lewis Award in the Humanities from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy. Mudd is married to the former E. J. Spears of Richmond, Virginia. They have four children and 11 grandchildren and have lived in McLean, Virginia, for 37 years.
The mission of CNU's Friends of the Trible Library is to promote public and scholarly interest in, and greater use of, the library, to provide financial support to the library and to sponsor cultural and related programs. For more information, call (757) 594-7130.
A four-year public university in Newport News, Virginia, Christopher Newport University enrolls 5,000 students in rigorous academic programs through the College of Arts and Humanities, the College of Natural and Behavioral Sciences, and the College of Social Sciences including the Luter School of Business. CNU offers great teaching and small classes as well as an emphasis on leadership, civic engagement and honor. For more information about CNU and its programs,
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