Alfredo Corchado and Angela Korcherga will deliver the ninth annual Paul J. Schatt Memorial Lecture at the ASU Cronkite School April 14. (Photo courtesy of the Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.)
The drug war and other border issues will be the focus of the ninth annual Paul J. Schatt Memorial Lecture at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, to be delivered by two award-winning journalists.
Join Alfredo Corchado, Mexico bureau chief of The Dallas Morning News, and Angela Kocherga, border bureau chief at Gannett, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, at the Cronkite School, 555 N. Central Ave., Phoenix. The lecture is free and open to the public. Corchado has been awarded the Maria Moors Cabot Prize and the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Journalism Award. Kocherga has received two Emmy awards for reporting from the border city of Cuidad Juarez on the war on drugs.
The annual lecture series began in 2007. It honors Paul J. Schatt, longtime Arizona Republic journaliist as well as Cronkite School adjunct faculty member. Mr. Schatt, who died in 2005, was a member of the Valley of the Sun SPJ chapter and posthumously received the chapter’s Phil Alvidrez Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2006. The lecture series is supported by an annual gift from the newspaper as well as by an endowment created in Schatt’s memory by his widow, Laura Schatt-Thede.
Society of Professional Journalists - Valley of the Sun chapter - Phoenix, Arizona 