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Columns::November 12, 2001
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Campus News
AJC editorial page editor will deliver McGill Lecture
By Sallie Barker
sbarker@uga.edu
Cynthia Tucker, the editorial page editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, will give the 24th annual Ralph McGill Lecture for t
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he Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 14 in the Chapel. Tucker will frame her discussion of the current state of American journalism by focusing on the media’s coverage of recent events. The public is invited to the lecture at no charge.
The lecture series com-memorates the life of the late Ralph McGill. Often called “the conscience of the South,” the former editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution used the newspaper’s editorial pages to challenge segregation in the 1950s and 1960s. The commemorative lecture series serves to address major issues of the American press system with professional journalists, students and members of the university community.
More than a lecture, this year’s McGill observance has been expanded to include the “McGill Issues Forum.” The public also is invited to this post-lecture event. The forum will be held in Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom in the Law School from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Tucker will join the university community in an open discussion of “Diversity at the University of Georgia.”
No stranger to controversial issues, Tucker is responsible for guiding the development of the AJC’s opinion policies on everything from foreign policy to local school board races. In addition, she is a frequent commentator on PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and CNN and Company, as well as a syndicated columnist for dozens of newspapers across the country.
Over the past 24 years, the McGill lecture has been delivered by a distinguished lineup of veteran journalists and publishers. Tucker joins the ranks of industry veterans including White House correspondent Helen Thomas, Sports Illustrated’s Frank Deford, and Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham. Tucker has appeared at UGA before, most recently delivering the 1999 Holmes-Hunter Lecture.
Before being named editorial page editor of the AJC, Tucker was associate editorial page editor. Prior to that, she was an editorial writer and columnist for the afternoon Atlanta Journal. Tucker has also been a reporter for the Atlanta Journal and for the Philadelphia Inquirer. At those publications, she covered a variety of beats, including local governments, national politics, crime and education. She has also reported internationally from Africa and Central America.
Tucker is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, the Nation’s Associations of Minority Media Executives and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. She also serves on the board of the Poynter Institute. A 1976 Auburn University graduate, she was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University during the 1988-89 academic year. In 2000, she received the Distinguished Writing Award from the American Society of Newspapers Editors.
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