Washington Post's Dana Priest to Speak at Duke Oct. 19

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Dana Priest will deliver the 2009-10 James D. Ewing Lecture on Ethics in Journalism at Duke University on Monday, Oct. 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, "Adventures in Journalism, from CIA Secret Prisons to Walter Reed," will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Room 04 on the lower floor at the Sanford School of Public Policy on Duke's West Campus. The public is invited to attend.

Duke's DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy annually invites widely respected media leaders to present the Ewing Lecture, which is named in the memory of James Ewing, who was the owner and publisher of The Keene Sentinel from 1954 to 1993 and was vice chairman of the Center for Foreign Journalists.