The Rosetta Kormuth DeVito Lecture Series at Waynesburg University will host guest lecturer David M. Shribman at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center. Admission is free, and the public is cordially invited to attend.
Shribman, executive editor and vice president of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, will present “The New Architecture of American Politics,” a tour d’horizon of the American political scene.
“We are excited to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Shribman to Waynesburg University as part of the DeVito Lecture Series,” said Waynesburg University Provost Dr. Dana Cook Baer. “In his role as executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Shribman has helped to shape local news coverage throughout the region, and his lecture provides a great opportunity for our students to learn more about the importance of media.”
Prior to joining the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2003, Shribman was the assistant managing editor, columnist and Washington bureau chief for The Boston Globe. He has also served as a national political correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, covered Congress and national politics for The New York Times and was a member of the national staff of The Washington Star.
He currently writes a nationally syndicated column, “My Point,” and a biweekly column for the Globe and Mail in Canada.
Shribman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his coverage of Washington and the American political scene and has been a regular panelist on the PBS show “Washington Week,” in addition to having appeared on both “Face the Nation” and “Meet the Press.”
As a guest lecturer, Shribman has visited numerous universities and colleges around the country. He has taught courses at the University of Notre Dame, Virginia Commonwealth University and Gettysburg College.
Shribman was a Poynter Fellow at Yale University and has delivered the Lyndon Baines Johnson Distinguished Lecture at Southwest Texas State University and the Charles Hall Dillon Lecture at the University of South Dakota.
He is an emeritus member of the board of trustees of Dartmouth College and of the board of visitors of Dartmouth’s Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. Currently, he is a member of the selection committee for the Profiles in Courage Award presented by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and sits on the national board of the Calvin Coolidge Foundation.
Shribman earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Dartmouth College where he graduated summa cum laude. In addition to holding four honorary degrees, he completed graduate work in European and African history as a Reynolds Scholar at Cambridge University in England.
Founded in 1849 by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Waynesburg University is located on a traditional campus in the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania, with three additional sites located in the Pittsburgh region. The University is one of only 22 Bonner Scholar schools in the country, offering local, regional and international opportunities to touch the lives of others through service.
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Ashley Wise, Director of University Relations
724-852-7675 or awise@waynesburg.edu
