Fox's Crier Is Savitch Series Speaker
	The Jessica Savitch Distinguished Journalism Lecture Series continues on Thursday, April 9, with a lecture by Emmy Award-winning television journalist Catherine Crier. Entitled "The World is Watching: The Role of Media in Global Conflicts," Crier's talk is set for 8:00 p.m. in the auditorium of Roy H. Park Hall. Admission is free and open to the public. As host of Fox News's The Crier Report, a nightly, live, one-hour interview program, Crier speaks with the leading newsmakers of the day, celebrities, and opinion makers. She came to Fox News in 1996 after more than three years with ABC News, where she served as a news correspondent for World News Tonight and was a regular substitute for news anchor Peter Jennings. Crier was also seen regularly as a fill-in weekend anchor, and substituted for Ted Koppel on Nightline. Before her assignment with World News Tonight, Crier was a correspondent on 20/20, the network's prime-time newsmagazine program. Her examination of nursing home abuses throughout the United States in the segment "The Predators" won her a 1996 Emmy for outstanding investigative journalism. Crier entered journalism with the Cable News Network (CNN) in 1989 after working as a state district court judge in Dallas County, Texas. She has worked as a civil litigation attorney and as a prosecutor for the Dallas County District Attorney's office, and is a noted speaker and author. The Jessica Savitch Distinguished Journalism Lecture Series honors the 1968 Ithaca College graduate who became an Emmy Award-winning NBC News anchor and correspondent. Savitch remained closely involved with the College throughout her career and returned to Ithaca periodically to teach a minicourse on television news. At the College's 1979 Commencement, Savitch gave the main address and was awarded an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. In 1980 she was elected to the Ithaca College Board of Trustees. After her death in an automobile accident in 1983, the Jessica Savitch Communications Scholarship was established through gifts from her family, associates, and friends to support students in the Roy H. Park School of Communications who demonstrate excellence, achievement, and promise in the field of broadcast journalism.