Media Relations
Press Release:
MEDIA CONTACT: Terry Gearing
561-799-8026, gearing@fau.edu or
Kami Barrett
561-799-8813, kbarre10@fau.edu
FAU Jupiter Presents Alex S. Jones to
Discuss “Losing the News”
3rd Judy and Donald Smith
Visiting Scholar to Lecture to Lifelong Learning Society
and MacArthur Campus Students
JUPITER, FL (December 23, 2009) - Florida Atlantic University’s John D. MacArthur campus will present a lecture by Alex S. Jones on Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 7 p.m. The lecture will take place in the Lifelong Learning Society complex at FAU, 5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and journalist, argues that “What is passed off as news is actually entertainment.” Jones covered the press for The New York Times from 1983 to 1992, and for the past eight years has been director of Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
Jones is co-author with Susan E. Tifft of The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty and The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has been host of National Public Radio’s On the Media and host and executive editor of the PBS show Media Matters.
In addition to his presentation on January 14, Jones will also speak at the Wilkes Honors College weekly forum.
Through the generosity of two Lifelong Learning Society members, the Judy and Donald Smith Visiting Scholar program was established in 2008. For more information or to reserve a ticket, contact the Lifelong Learning Society at 561-799-8667 or 561-799-8547.
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Florida Atlantic University
opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in
Florida. Today, the University serves more than 28,000
undergraduate and graduate students on seven campuses. Building
on its rich tradition as a teaching university, with a
world-class faculty, FAU hosts ten colleges: College of
Architecture, Urban & Public Affairs, Dorothy F. Schmidt
College of Arts & Letters, the Charles E. Schmidt College of
Biomedical Science, the College of Business, the College of
Education, the College of Engineering & Computer Science, the
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Graduate College, the
Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt
College of Science.
