Washington Post’s Dana Priest speaking at Duke

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post investigative reporter Dana Priest will deliver the 2009-10 Ewing Lecture on Ethics in Journalism at Duke University’s DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy on Monday, October 19.

Priest’s reporting focuses on counter-terrorism, intelligence and military affairs. In 2006, she won a Pulitzer for reporting about CIA secret prisons and counter-terrorism operations, and in 2008, she won the Pulitzer Public Service award for “The Other Walter Reed,” her report about conditions in the military hospital.

Priest’s speech is titled Adventures in Journalism, from CIA Secret Prisons to Walter Reed. The Ewing Lecture will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Room 04 on the lower floor at the Sanford School of Public Policy (campus map).

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