International Journalism at Home”–Noted Journalist David Lamb to Keynote Maine Center for Student Journalism’s Newspaper Contest on May 11
Contact: Shannon E. Martin at (207) 581-1281; Sundari Pai at (207) 581-1939
ORONO — This year’s keynote speaker at the 12th Maine Center for Student Journalism annual newspaper contest conference is international journalist and UMaine graduate David Lamb. The conference, sponsored by the Maine Daily Newspaper Publishers Association and the University of Maine Department of Communication and Journalism, hosts about 150 high school students from across the state. The conference this year will be held Wednesday, May 11, at the Donald P. Corbett Business Building on UMaine Campus.
David Lamb’s travels as a journalist and author took him to more than 140 countries and to all seven continents. He covered the Vietnam War, the Iranian revolution, the overthrow of Idi Amin in Uganda, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the African famine, the Rwanda massacres, the Persian Gulf War, the popular uprising in Indonesia in 1998, the anarchy in East Timor in 1999, the war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq and many of the other major stories of the past three decades. During a career with the Los Angeles Times that spanned 34 years, his reporting was nominated eight times for a Pulitzer Prize.
Lamb is the author of “The Africans,” “The Arabs: Journeys Beyond the Mirage,” “Stolen Season, A Journey through America and Baseball’s Minor Leagues.” “A Sense of Place: Listening to Americans,” “Over The Hills: A Midlife Escape Across America By Bicycle,” and “Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns.” His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including “National Geographic,” “Readers Digest,” and “Sports Illustrated.”
Lamb was a Nieman fellow at Harvard, an Alicia Patterson Fellow, a writer in residence at the University of Southern California’s School of Journalism and a Pew fellow. He now lives and works near Washington DC.
His topic for the 2005 conference is “The Foreign Correspondent: Making Sense of the World.”