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CSUN Lecture to Explore Media’s Impact From
The Civil Rights Movement to the Presidential Campaign

(NORTHRIDGE, Calif., April 10, 2008) — Award-winning journalist and commentator Callie Crossley will explore the media’s impact on American society from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s to the current presidential campaign as part of Cal State Northridge’s Distinguished Visiting Speakers Program.

Crossley, a regular contributor to National Public Radio, CNN’s "Reliable Sources" and "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS, will speak at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 17, in the Armer Screening Room in Manzanita Hall near the southwest corner of the campus at 18111 Nordhoff St. in Northridge.

Crossley spent 13 years as a network television producer for ABC’s news program, "20/20," reporting health and medical stories. In addition, she was a producer on the critically acclaimed PBS documentary series, "Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965." The segment she produced earned her an Oscar® nomination for Best Documentary Feature.

The newswoman is best known in the Boston area for her weekly local program on media criticism, "Beat the Press," a ten-year-old award-winning show that examines local and national media coverage.

Crossley has been the recipient of several top journalism awards, including a national Emmy, a Peabody, an Edward R. Murrow award and the Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia award, considered the Pulitzer Prize of broadcast journalism.

She was selected by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation to join the ranks of former diplomats, authors and business executives in guest lecturing at liberal arts colleges and universities across the country.

CSUN’s Distinguished Visiting Speakers Program is sponsored by the university’s Office of Graduate Studies, Research and International Programs. It is designed to bring well-known speakers to the campus. Next week’s event is co-sponsored by the university’s Department of Journalism and the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media and Communication.