Humanities Council 1st Wednesdays program at the Goodrich Memorial
Library will be held on the second Wednesday, February 10 this month.
Newport ~ Veteran journalists Cynthia Skrzycki and Pulitzer Prize
winner David Shribman will take a critical look at the state of news
today in a talk at Goodrich Memorial Library in Newport on February 10
at 7:00 pm. Their talk, "Confused by the News?" is part of the Vermont
Humanities Council's First Wednesdays lecture series and is free and
open to the public. (Please note this talk takes place on a special
date on the second Wednesday of February.)
Skrzycki and Shribman's talk will examine the contemporary news scene
with an eye to helping people discern truth from untruth, professional
from amateur, and the enduring from the ephemeral.
Shribman is executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He came
to Pittsburgh from The Boston Globe where he was assistant managing
editor, columnist and Washington bureau chief. He served as national
political correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, covered Congress
and national politics for The New York Times, and was a member of the
national staff of The Washington Star. Mr. Shribman was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his coverage of Washington and the American
political scene.
Skrzycki was on staff at The Washington Post for 18 years covering
federal regulatory issues, management, and technology. Before joining
The Post, she was an associate business editor at U.S. News & World
Report, specializing in transportation issues, and a Washington
correspondent for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where she covered the
gamut of business topics. She currently is a full-time senior lecturer
in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh, where she
was awarded the David and Tina Bellet Teaching Prize in 2012.
Contact: "carol@goodrichlibrary.org Nicholson"