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Robert MacNeil, who co-anchored PBS evening news with Jim Lehrer for 20 years, will appear at Stony Brook Southampton on Wednesday, April 6, in the campus’s Writers Speak series.
Mr. MacNeil, the author of four novels and three memoirs, will read examples of his work and then sit for a lively discussion with the audience and Roger Rosenblatt, a Stony Brook Southampton distinguished professor of English and writing.
Mr. MacNeil got his start in journalism at Reuters news agency in London in 1955. He moved into broadcast journalism five years later as a London correspondent for NBC News. He joined NBC’s Washington bureau in 1963 and covered the civil rights movement, the White House and the Kennedy assassination. He worked for the BBC before joining PBS in 1971 and eventually becoming the executive editor of the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour.
He was awarded the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2008. He serves as the chairman of the board of the MacDowell Colony, a century-old retreat for artists, writers and musicians in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He is a trustee of the Freedom Forum Newseum, the world’s first museum of journalism, and is co-chairman of the Council of Conservators of the New York Public Library.
The evening will begin with a reception at 6:30 p.m. Readings will start at 7 p.m. followed by a Q&A and book signing. Writers Speak takes place in Chancellors Hall, 239 Montauk Hwy, Southampton. Admission is free. For more information, call (631) 632-5030 or visit stonybrook.edu/mfa.
on Mar 28, 2016