Pitt Hosts Renowned Journalist Cokie Roberts
PITTSBURGH—Renowned broadcast journalist Cokie Roberts has spent much of her career being a voice of unfiltered truth on issues of American history, national politics, and women’s rights. A political commentator for ABC News and NPR, Roberts is the latest speaker for the University of Pittsburgh’s American Experience Distinguished Lecture Series.
The address, titled “Why Trump and What is Next?”, will be delivered on Tuesday, December 6. Roberts will offer her unique perspective on the 2016 presidential election and the social issues facing the president-elect and nation. David Shribman, executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, will moderate this discussion.
Roberts is a member of the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame and has been cited by the American Women in Radio and Television as one of the 50 greatest women in the history of broadcasting. In 2008, the Library of Congress recognized her more than four decades in journalism with its prestigious “Living Legend” award. Roberts also has been honored with the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Edward R. Murrow Award, and three Emmy Awards.
In addition to her work in journalism, Roberts has written six New York Times bestsellers. Her books have mostly focused on the roles of women in U.S. history. They include We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters (William Morrow and Company, 1998), an account of women’s societal roles throughout U.S. history, and Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868 (HarperCollins, 2015). Roberts recently published her latest book Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation (HarperCollins, 2016), a children’s adaption of her 2008 book of the same name.
The American Experience Distinguished Lecture Series is sponsored by Pitt’s Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law and Public Policy and University Honors College. Founded by the late Pitt scholar Robert G. Hazo in 1970, the series seeks to further enlighten the citizenry of Southwestern Pennsylvania on the great traditions of political and economic thought.
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