Entries from April 2009

April 24, 2009

On journalism, news, and the future: words of wisdom from Chris Hedges

This has been a great week for me as a professor and chair of the department of Journalism at the University of Mississippi. It was even a greater week for our students. Many speakers came to campus and interacted with the students on “all things journalism.”
Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, gave [...]

April 17, 2009

On Paul Guihard’s Day at Ole Miss: Hank Klibanoff Calls on the Killer(s) to Come Forward and Tell the Truth

From Hank Klibanoff speech at the Department of Journalism’s commemoration of a memorial bench in honor of the French journalist Paul L. Guihard who was killed on the Ole Miss campus in 1962.
I would call on the killer of Paul Guihard, or anyone who knows the story of how Paul Guihard came to die on [...]