Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist to speak in Fairbanks Oct. 19
October 17, 2011
Emmy award-winning journalist Cheryl W. Thompson will give a 鈥╢ree public lecture,
鈥淕uns in America,鈥 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, in the Noel Wien Library auditorium.
Thompson is an investigative reporter for the Washington Post鈥 who has written extensively about government corruption, immigration, 鈥╰he Drug Enforcement
Administration and the Washington, D.C. police鈥 department鈥檚 handling of homicide
investigations.
Most recently, she tracked guns used to kill more than 500 police鈥 officers 鈥 including
several in Alaska 鈥 since 2000. The 鈥╣roundbreaking series examined how the killers,
many of them felons,鈥 got their firearms.
The is hosting 鈥╰he event as part of the Snedden Endowed Chair of Journalism. It is 鈥╩ade
possible by a generous gift from Helen Snedden in honor of her鈥 late husband, C.W.
Snedden, former Fairbanks Daily News-Miner owner 鈥╝nd publisher.
For more information call the 性欲社 Journalism Department at 474-7761.