MURFREESBORO — Award-winning investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson will discuss
governmental intimidation of journalists, network news' increasing reliance on
pop-culture "reporting" over investigative news and more when she
visits MTSU Tuesday, April 7.
The former CBS News and CNN
reporter will offer a free public address beginning at 6 p.m. April 7 in MTSU's
Tucker Theatre inside the Boutwell Dramatic Arts Auditorium. She also will talk
with several journalism classes during her MTSU stop.
A searchable campus map with
parking details is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParking14-15.
Attkisson
has been nominated for and won multiple Emmy Awards for her investigative
journalism, including wins for stories on the American Red Cross and the
Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP.
A former
Capitol Hill correspondent and anchor for CBS News, Attkisson also has won the
Radio Television Digital News Association’s Edward R. Murrow Award twice as
part of a CBS News team and individually for her 2012 reporting on the U.S.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms’ “Fast and Furious” weapons
controversy.
Attkisson
left CBS in spring 2014 and later released her book, “Stonewalled: One
Reporter's Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation and Harassment
in Obama's Washington,” accusing the network of running advertorials and allowing
biased coverage of the Obama administration.
Her MTSU talk will include discussions of governmental
intimidation and pushback towards journalists, blurred lines between
traditional news and pop-culture websites and lessening network news commitment
to investigative hard news. Longtime Nashville CBS affiliate anchor Chris
Clark, who now teaches at MTSU, will moderate the event and will lead a
question-and-answer session.
Attkisson’s visit is sponsored by the university’s Distinguished
Lecture Committee, College of Mass Communication, School of Journalism,
Department of Electronic Media, the John Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence in
First Amendment Studies, the American Democracy Project and the College of
Behavioral Health and Sciences and College of Liberal Arts.
You can learn more about Attkisson at her website, http://sharylattkisson.com.
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