New York Times editor to speak about election at USF Sarasota-Manatee

 

SARASOTA, FL (April 7, 2008) – On April 17 at 7:00 p.m. Robert B. Semple Jr., associate editor of The New York Times editorial page, will speak at a lecture entitled “Election Musings: A View from the New York Times.” 

 

The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at the Selby Auditorium on the USF Sarasota-Manatee campus.

 

Semple was raised in Michigan and educated at Andover, Yale, and the University of California, where he received a master's degree in history in 1961. In the fall of 1963, he joined the Washington bureau of The New York Times, covering housing and civil rights stories during the Johnson administration. Semple spent a year covering President Johnson himself, and served as White House correspondent during Richard Nixon's first term in office. He served thereafter as deputy national editor, London bureau chief, foreign editor, editor of the Op-Ed Page, and associate editor of the Editorial Page.  Semple received the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for his editorials on environmental issues.

 

The lecture is part of the “Civility in Democracy: Election 2008” series hosted by Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice in partnership with the Collins Center for Public Policy and USF Sarasota-Manatee’s Institute for Public Policy and Leadership.  The series is a multi-faceted, year-long effort to address concerns about civility in politics, governance and daily life.

 

Reservations may be made online at www.becauseitmatters.net/CID.cfm, or by calling 941-486-4600.