A Campaign Narrative: Why Iowa Matters
Speaker:
or Not! Clarence Page
14 Sep 2011
8:00 PM
Sun Room, Memorial Union
Clarence Page, the 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner for Commentary, is a columnist syndicated nationally by Tribune Media Services and a member of the Chicago Tribune's editorial board. He is a frequent contributor of essays to The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and has been a regular on such news panel programs as PBS's The McLaughlin Group, NBC's The Chris Matthews Show, ABC's Nightline and BET's Lead Story. Page worked as a reporter and assistant city editor for the Chicago Tribune early in his career. In 1972 he participated in the paper's Task Force series on vote fraud, which won the Pulitzer. He is the author of Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity. 2011 Chamberlin Lecture
Clarence Page was a reporter, producer and community affairs director at WBBM-TV from 1980 to 1984. His awards include a 1980 Illinois UPI awards for community service for an investigative series titled "The Black Tax" and the Edward Scott Beck Award for overseas reporting in 1976. He also received lifetime achievement awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, the Chicago Headline Club and the National Association of Black Journalists. In 1992, he was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame.
Born in Dayton, Ohio, he grew up in Middletown. He began his journalism career as a freelance writer and photographer for the [i]Middletown Journal[/i] and [i]Cincinnati Enquirer[/i] at the age of seventeen. He graduated from Ohio University with a bachelor of science in journalism in 1969. He also has received honorary degrees from Columbia College in Chicago, Lake Forest College, the Chicago Theological Seminary and the John Marshall School of Law, among others.
Page is married, has one son, and lives in the suburbs of Washington, DC.