UPDATED: Aug. 30, 2017 at 1:41 a.m.

The Syracuse University Lecture series this semester will feature award-winning broadcast journalist Soledad O’Brien, SU has announced.

O’Brien, the National Association of Black Journalists’ 2010 journalist of the year, will host a lecture at Goldstein Auditorium on Sept. 14. She produced the CNN documentary series “Black in America” and “Latino in America.”

Her coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the BP Gulf Coast oil spill earned her two Peabody Awards. She also won three Emmy Awards for her reporting on race issues and the 2012 presidential election.

O’Brien’s lecture will cost $5 for SU and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry students. The lecture will cost $10 for the general public and is free for Coming Back Together registrants. Tickets went on sale Monday.

David Greene, host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” will also speak as part of the lecture series. Greene hosts “Up First,” NPR’s morning news podcast.

Greene was formerly an NPR foreign correspondent based in Moscow. He covered Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2008.

Greene’s lecture will be on Oct. 3 in Hendricks Chapel and is free to attend.

Jill Lepore, historian and author of the New York Times best-selling book “The Secret History of Wonder Woman,” will speak at Hendricks Chapel on Nov. 9 as part of the series. Lepore is a professor of American history at Harvard University and a staff writer at the New Yorker. Her lecture is also free to attend.

Speakers for the spring lecture series will be announced later this fall.

The story has been updated with appropriate style.

Published on August 29, 2017 at 9:54 pm

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