{"id":1212,"date":"2009-04-21T16:29:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T21:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezing.me\/transfer\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2014-09-23T08:36:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:36:20","slug":"overby042109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/overby042109\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalists to Discuss Civil Rights News Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

OXFORD, Miss. – Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff, authors of last year’s Pultizer Prize-winning book “The Race Beat<\/a> ,” are to lead a discussion of the challenges and perils news reporters faced while covering the civil rights movement Thursday (April 23) at the University of Mississippi.
\nSponsored by the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics<\/a> , the free, public event is scheduled for 5 p.m. in the Overby Center Auditorium. The discussion coincides with the school’s observance of Journalism Week and the dedication of a bench on campus to commemorate Paul Guihard, a French reporter killed during the 1962 riot at the university.<\/p>\n


Veterans of the “race beat” have been invited to attend and will be
\nrecognized during the program, said Curtis Wilkie, Overby Center fellow
\nand Ole Miss journalism professor. “As many as 10 prominent reporters,
\ncoming out of retirement from across the country, have indicated that
\nthey will participate in the program,” Wilkie said.<\/p>\n

“A
\ndiscussion of the news coverage of the civil rights movement, whether
\nlimited to the events at Ole Miss or broadened to the 25-year period
\nafter World War II, is an examination of journalism at its best and at
\nits worst,” said Klibanoff, a former editor of the Atlanta
\nJournal-Constitution. “Ole Miss provides the perfect backdrop to any
\ncritical review of the state of news coverage today. To have in our
\npresence some of the reporters who were eyewitnesses to the struggle
\nadds depth, dimension and no small amount of storytelling to the event.”<\/p>\n

Roberts,
\nwho reported on the movement himself for The New York Times before
\ngoing on to become editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer and lead the
\nnewspaper to numerous Pulitzer Prizes, will discuss his own experiences
\nand draw comments from colleagues attending the program.<\/p>\n

For
\nmore information or to request assistance related to a disability, call
\n662-915-1692. To learn more about the Overby Center, visit http:\/\/www.olemiss.edu\/depts\/overby\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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