Peter Applebome, writer and editor at the New York Times, will present a lecture on Monday, Oct. 13, at 4:10 p.m. in Room 126 of Wilson at Vanderbilt University.
He will discuss “All the News That’s Fit to Blog: Old Media, New Media and the Brave New World of Election 2008.” The lecture, co-sponsored by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities and the Communications Studies Department, is free and open to the public.
Applebome joined the Times as a correspondent and bureau chief of the Houston Bureau in 1987. He went from there to Atlanta, where he was Southern bureau chief 1989-1994. He was the chief education correspondent October 1994-January 1998 and then was a correspondent on the culture desk. In September 1999, he became assistant metropolitan editor for four years.
He now writes the “Our Towns” column: twice weekly dispatches from almost anyplace in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut other than New York City.
Applebome is the author of Dixie Rising: How the South is Shaping American Values, Politics and Culture, published by Times Books in 1996 and Scout’s Honor: A Father’s Unlikely Foray into the Woods, published by Harcourt in 2003. His favorite achievement was winning the annual “Bad Hemingway” competition with an epic about Hemingway in the singles bars of Dallas.
A video of Applebome’s lecture will be available after his speech at www.vanderbilt.edu/news.
Applebome’s lecture is part of the series “Realities and Representations: The 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign.” The series brings to Vanderbilt’s campus leading scholars and critics to reflect upon the historic nature of the presidential race, as well as to examine the ways in which mass media are shaping the national response to the campaign.
The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities promotes interdisciplinary research and study in the humanities, social sciences, and, when appropriate, natural sciences. Members of the Vanderbilt community representing a wide variety of specializations take part in the Warren Center’s programs. The work of the Warren Center strengthens the place of the humanities not only at Vanderbilt University but also within the larger society in which we live. For more information about the Warren Center, visit http://www.vanderbilt.edu/rpw_center/center.htm.
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