Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, will be on campus Wednesday to speak as Green Honors Chair for the Schieffer School of Journalism.  The lecture, titled “Information Needs and a Free Society,” will be held at 4 p.m. in the University Union, Ballroom C. The event is free and open to the public.

 

 

Ibargüen received his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University before attending law school at the University of Pennsylvania.  He then served as publisher of the Miami Herald, which won three Pulitzer Prizes during his tenure. He has received a Maria Coors Cabot citation from Columbia University and an honorary Doctor of Letters from George Washington University for his work on the protection of journalists in Latin America.

 

 

The Green Honors Chair program, established by the late Drs. Cecil H. and Ida Green of Dallas, brings a number of prominent scholars to campus each year.