DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Eugene Patterson, who played an influential role in the formative days of Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy and its DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, died Saturday, January 12. The University pays tribute to Mr. Patterson in a DukeToday article.  The Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy, currently held by Philip Bennett, was established in 1990 by the Poynter Foundation to honor Patterson, whose “life and career have exemplified the values of a free and critical press and have made a vital contribution to this American institution; and a major force behind the founding and continuing development of the Center.”

On October 23, the DeWitt Wallace Center and the Sanford School joined with the Duke Divinity School and Duke DC to host “Profiles in Character: What Biography Reveals About the Presidential Candidates” at the Newseum in Washington DC.  A video of the event is now available for viewing.

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Video is now available!  Steve Coll, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, and President of New America Foundation delivered the 2012 Ewing Lecture on Ethics in Journalism.  Coll spoke on the topic of “Investigating Big Oil: Spin, Ethics and Corporate Responsibility in an Age of Multinationals.”  Coll is also a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and previously spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent and senior editor at The Washington Post, serving as the paper’s managing editor from 1998 to 2004 (preceding now Duke Professor Phil Bennett).