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CONTACT: Joan Kallestad, (850) 645-4844; <jkallestad@fsu.edu> Sept. 19, 2008 ‘WHEN THE NEWS WAS THE NEWS’: JOURNALIST ROGER MUDD TO SPEAK AT FSU Roger Mudd, one of the leading figures in broadcast news, will discuss “When The News Was The News,” in a free, public lecture Sept. 25 at Florida State University. Between 1961 and 1992, Mudd served as a Washington correspondent for CBS News, NBC News and the MacNeil/Leher Newshour on PBS. He won the George Foster Peabody Award in 1970 and 1979 and the Barone Award for Distinguished Washington Reporting in 1990. From 1992 until 1996, he was a visiting professor of politics and the press at Princeton University and at Washington & Lee University. He served as the documentary host and correspondent for the History Channel from 1995 until he retired in 2004. Mudd’s memoir, “The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News,” looks back at his 20 years at the CBS News Washington bureau. In the book, published earlier this year, he tells how the bureau worked: the rivalries, the egos, the pride, the competitions, the ambitions and the gathering frustrations of conveying the world to a national television audience. The book highlights what TV journalism was once like and what’s missing today. There will be book-signing opportunities before and after Mudd’s FSU lecture, and copies of the book will be available for purchase. His lecture, which is funded by the Anderson Ashby Lecture Series and sponsored by the College of Social Sciences, will be held: THURSDAY, SEPT. 25 # # # |