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| Spring Program 2011Spring
2011 -- Mayborn Lecture: Saturday, April 30, 4 p.m. at the
Longhorn Conference Room at the Stagecoach Inn, Salado The Institute for the
Humanities has gone to an exciting new format. Beginning in 2011, the Institute
will host a series of sponsored lectures on specific topics.
Leading off the year is the Mayborn
Lecture, underwritten by the Frank W. and Sue W. Mayborn Foundation of
Temple, TX. This lectureship was set up to showcase speakers from the
media world who will speak on topics having to do with newspapers, broadcasting
and other means of news dissemination. Well known Texas media
figure, Evan Smith, will inaugurate this new format on Saturday, April 30. That
lecture, Why the News Media Still Matters, will be at 4 p.m. at the Longhorn
Conference Room at the Stagecoach Inn in Salado. The cost is $25.00 and is open
to the public. Payment may be made at the door. Evan Smith is
the CEO and editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune, a new online newspaper
focusing on the state of Texas. This
new media outlet was founded in 2009, and in its first year in operation won two
national Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News
Association and a General Excellence Award from the Online News Association. Previously Smith spent
nearly 18 years at Texas Monthly, stepping down in August 2009 to create The
Texas Tribune. He served as
president and editor-in-chief at Texas Monthly for more than eight years —
only the third person to hold that title. On his watch, Texas Monthly
was nominated for 16 National Magazine Awards, the magazine industry equivalent
of the Pulitzer Prize, and twice was awarded the National Magazine Award for
General Excellence. Smith also hosted a Lone Star Emmy Award-winning weekly
interview program, Texas Monthly Talks,
which aired on PBS stations statewide for eight years. He currently hosts a new
show, Overheard with Evan Smith, which
airs on PBS stations nationally. Smith is a native of New York, and has a
bachelor's degree in public policy from Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., and a
master's degree in journalism from the Medill School at Northwestern University.
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