FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The University of Arkansas and the Lemke Department of Journalism are pleased to announce that Hodding Carter III, president and chief executive officer of the James S. and James L. Knight Foundation, will be honored as the spring 2005 Roy Reed Lecturer. Carter’s address will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, at the Hembree Alumni House, located at the corner of Maple Street and Razorback Road.

 “Hodding Carter has had such a distinguished career in the world of journalism and politics,” said Gerald Jordan, associate professor of journalism. “From his early days at a small town newspaper in northern Mississippi to his work with two presidential campaigns, he has led such an extraordinary life, and we are honored that he is joining us as this semester’s Roy Reed lecturer.”

Carter began his career in 1959 at the Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, Miss., where he spent nearly 18 years as reporter-editorial writer, managing editor, and editor and associate publisher. He was the winner of the Society for Professional Journalists’ award for editorial writing in 1961.

He worked on the presidential campaigns of Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Jimmy Carter in 1976 and served in the Carter administration as spokesman of the Department of State and as assistant secretary of state for public affairs.

In broadcast media, Hodding Carter has served as host, anchor, panelist, correspondent and reporter for a variety of public-affairs television shows on PBS, ABC, CBS, BBC and CNN. He is a winner of four national Emmy Awards and the Edward R. Murrow Award for his public-affairs television documentaries for the “Inside Story,” a series of media criticism.

He served as a Washington-based opinion columnist for the Wall Street Journal for more than 10 years and has been a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post and many other newspapers and magazines.

Prior to his appointment as president of Knight Foundation in 1998, Carter was a board member of the Japan Society, the Center for Policy Alternatives, the George C. Marshall Foundation, the Population Resource Center, the Pew Center for Civic Journalism, the Southern Regional Council and the International Center for Journalists. He was also a founding board member of Mississippi Action for Progress, a statewide Head Start agency serving 10,000 children, from 1966 to 1977.

Carter is a 1957 summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University and a 1965-66 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

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