Bob Brown is Park Distinguished Visitor
	Emmy Award-winning ABC News reporter Bob Brown will discuss issues in contemporary journalism during a Tuesday, March 24, talk at Ithaca College. Brown, this year’s Park Distinguished Visitor, will speak at 7:30 p.m. in Roy H. Park Hall auditorium. The talk, "Journalists and Feeding Frenzies," is free and open to the public. A reporter for the newsmagazine 20/20 since 1980, Brown has covered a wide range of topics during his career. During the 1996–97 season, his reports included the story of Yvette Melanson, an adopted woman raised in a New York Jewish home who traced her heritage to a Navajo reservation in Arizona; and a look at how an incident in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico, sparked a wild series of rumors about UFOs and alien visitation. He has been the recipient of five Emmy Awards as well as the Investigative Reporters Award, the American Bar Association Gavel Award, the Alfred I. DuPont Silver Baton Award, the Gabriel Award, and the National Headliner Award, among others. Prior to joining 20/20 full-time, Brown contributed special assignment reports on ABC’s World News Tonight. He first joined ABC as a New York-based correspondent in 1977. A graduate of the University of Tulsa, he is the author of two high school textbooks, China and the World and United States History, Vol. 5. As this year’s Park Distinguished Visitor, Brown will be on campus March 23–26. He will be speaking in classes, holding master class workshops, and meeting informally with groups of students and faculty. Each year, the Park Distinguished Visitor series brings to campus an individual of renown representing one or more of the significant professions associated with the communications industry.