Emmy Award-winning ABC News reporter Jeff Greenfield will spend four days at Ithaca College as the inaugural participant in the Park Distinguished Visitors Series in the Roy H. Park School of Communications. As part of his visit he will give a lecture, "The New Information Age: Is the Truth Really Out There?" on Tuesday, March 18, at 7:00 p.m. in Park Hall Auditorium. His talk is free and open to the public.
A political and media analyst for ABC since 1983, Greenfield appears regularly on Nightline and provides weekly commentaries for World News Sunday. He is perhaps most familiar during the political season as a convention floor reporter and election night analyst. Greenfield has won three Emmys-for his work as part of Nightline's acclaimed South Africa specials in 1985 and 1990 and for a prime-time special on Ross Perot in 1992.
During his stay at Ithaca College, Greenfield will speak in classes, hold workshops with student media, and meet formally and informally with groups of students and faculty. The Park Distinguished Visitors Series was established to bring to campus each year an individual of renown representing one or more of the significant professions associated with the communications industry. It is made possible by a $10 million grant awarded last year by the Park Foundation in honor of Ithaca College president James J. Whalen. The grant is also funding endowed scholarships and professorships, and capital equipment purchases for the Park School.
"We are extremely pleased to be able to kick off this significant series with a journalist of Jeff Greenfield's accomplishments and acclaim," said Park School dean Thomas Bohn. "This is a remarkable opportunity for our students and faculty to learn from and interact with a first-rate reporter and analyst."
In addition to his television work, Greenfield has written or coauthored 10 books, including Television: The First 50 Years, Playing to Win, and The Real Campaign. His first novel, the 1995 best-seller The People's Choice, was named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the notable books of the year. He is a contributing columnist for Time magazine and has written articles for publications ranging from Harper's to National Lampoon.
Before joining ABC News, Greenfield had served as media critic on CBS News's Sunday Morning program and as an analyst for the network's coverage of the 1980 elections. Earlier he had worked for two PBS programs-Firing Line with William F. Buckley and We Interrupt This Week. In 1967-68 he was an aide and campaign speech writer for U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and from 1968 to 1970 he served as chief speechwriter for New York City mayor John Lindsay.
Greenfield holds a B.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin, where he was editor in chief of the Daily Cardinal, and an LL.B. from Yale Law School, where he was an officer of the Yale Law Journal.
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