383 National Public Radio’s Terry Gross to Speak at MTSU

(MURFREESBORO) – One of the media’s premier interviewers, Terry Gross, host of National Public Radio’s “Fresh Air with Terry Gross,” will lecture at 8 p.m. Monday, April 17, in the Tennessee Room of the James Union Building. The talk is free and open to the public.
Gross’ appearance at MTSU is co-sponsored by the John Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence in First Amendment Studies of the College of Mass Communication, the Department of Electronic Media Communication (EMC), the National Women’s History Month Committee and the Distinguished Lecture Program.
“I think it’s a great opportunity to have a nationally recognized award-winning interviewer come here to talk,” Marc J. Barr, EMC professor, said. “She has come to be one of the best interviewers, if not the best interviewer, out there in media.”
Earlier on the day of the lecture, Gross is slated to speak to journalism and EMC students at 3 p.m. in Room 103 of the John Bragg Mass Communication Building.
“Fresh Air with Terry Gross” won the Peabody Award in 1994 for what the Peabody Board called its “probing questions, revelatory interviews and unusual insight. It also captured the Ohio State Award in 1987 and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Award for “Best Live Radio Program” in 1981. “Fresh Air” now air on 160 stations, including Nashville’s WPLN-AM (1430) and WPLN-FM (90.3).
While the Monday night lecture is free, tickets are required for admission. Tickets are available now in the EMC department office, Room 250 of the John Bragg Mass Communication Building Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. or through Barr in Room 147 of the same building.
For more information, contact Barr at 615-898-5118 or at mjbarr@mtsu.edu.


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