Medill Welcomes...

Medill is proud to welcome high-profile guest lecturers who are at the top of their fields in media and marketing. Many are award-winning journalists and published authors.

UPCOMING GUEST SPEAKER SCHEDULE - SPRING 2008

Crain Lecture Series: Monday, May 19 at 12:00 p.m.

"Reporting Iraq"

Anne Garrels, foreign correspondent, National Public Radio

Anne Garrels is a senior foreign correspondent for NPR's foreign desk. She has spent the past four years in Iraq, covering the country under Saddam Hussein's regime and through the U.S. invasion and its aftermath. She earned international recognition in 2003 by being one of 16 U.S. journalists to remain in Baghdad during the initial phase of the war. Since Sept. 11, Garrels has also reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East.

McCormick Tribune Center Forum, 1870 Campus Drive


The Gertrude and G.D. Crain Jr. Lecture Series

The Gertrude and G.D. Crain Jr. Lecture Series was the brainchild of Dean Ken Bode, who arrived on campus in January 1998 with a dream of making Medill "the crossroads of public affairs" at Northwestern. Thanks to a $1 million gift from alumnus Rance Crain (BSJ60) and his wife, Merrilee, Bode's dream became reality by September of that year. The series, scheduled to run for 10 years, is named in honor of Rance Crain's parents, founders of Crain Communications Inc.

The series kicked off on Sept. 26, 1998, with an appearance by New Yorker magazine media critic Ken Auletta and continued with the Nov. 9, 1998, address by veteran Washington Post investigative reporter Bob Woodward. Since then, most events have taken the form of question-and-answer sessions with audience members, rather than formal speeches.