Payne To Focus On Press & Democracy
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Les Payne will give a lecture on the role that serious reporting plays in a healthy democracy at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City on Wednesday, Apr. 25.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Little Theater, located at 31-10 Thomson Ave.
Payne has had a long career in journalism, formerly serving as an associate editor at Newsday. During his tenure there, his news staff won every major award in journalism, including six Pulitzer Prizes.
In 1974, he won a Pulitzer for “The Heroin Trail,” a series of reports that traced the international flow of heroin from the poppy fields of Turkey to the streets of New York City.
During the 1976 Soweto uprising in Africa, Payne covered the crisis and wrote a series of stories that was nominated for a Pulitzer for foreign reporting.
Payne was a founder of the National Association of Black Journalists and inaugural professor for the David Laventhol Chair at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
For more information on the lecture, call 1-718-482-5946. porations who make millions marketing human biological material not to share their proceeds with the family.
At Yale, Dr. Latham teaches undergraduate, graduate, MBA and medical courses on law and bioethics, comparative bioethics, business ethics and law and responsible conduct of research. Before entering academia full time, Latham served as director of ethics standards at the American Medical Association and as secretary to its Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held on Apr. 23, from 1 to 2 p.m. at La- Guardia’s Mainstage Theater, located at 31-10 Thomson Ave. For more information, call Demetrios Kapetanakos at 1-718-482-5670.
