Former CNN Correspondent is 2010 Caulfield Lecturer

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Emmy-winning journalist and professor Frank Sesno will deliver "Will We Lose the News?:  Learning to Tell Stories in a New Way," the 2010 Murile and Clarence J. Caulfield Memorial Lecture, on Thursday, April 22, 2010, at 5:00 p.m. in McGuire Hall in the Andrew White Student Center on Loyola University's North Charles Street campus. This event is free and open to the public.

Frank Sesno is Director of the School of Meida and Public Affairs at The George Washington University and host and creator of Planet Forward, a groundbreaking web-to-television show seen on PBS. He also serves as Director of the Public Affairs Project at the Center for Innovative Media. Sesno's diverse career spans over 30 years of experience, including 21 years at CNN where Sesno served as White House correspondent, anchor, and Washington Bureau Chief. As a professor of journalism ethics, documentary genre, and issues of fairness in media, he teaches how the media affect the creation of public policy. He is currently hosting a ten-part serives for public television that explores news and communication in the digital age, titled "The Future of News with Frank Sesno," at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.

As a journalist, Sesno has interviewed business and government leaders, including U.S. Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan, and former General Electric Company CEO Jack Welch, the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and former Israeli Prime Minister benjamin Netanyahu. He covered stories ranging from the Iraq War to the disputed U.S. presidential election of 2000 to the historic series of superpower summits during the 1980s.

Before joining CNN in 1984, Sesno worked as a radio correspondent at the White House and in London for the Associated Press. He has won several prestigious journalistic awards, including an Emmy, several cable ACE awards, and an Overseas Press Club Award. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Sesno holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Middlebury College and servces on the Washington Advisory Board of the Posse Foundation, on the Board of Trustees of the Potomac School in McLean, VA, and on the Educational Advisory Board of CINE 2009.

The Caulfield Lecture series at Loyola was established 22 years ago by the family of Clarence J. Caulfield, a 1922 alumnus who spent 26 years as an editor at The Sun and was a mentor to such prominent writers as J. Anthony Lukas and Russell T. Baker. Hosted by the Communication Department, the Caulfield Lecture brings journalists and commentators of national stature to Loyola every year. Last year's Caulfield Lecture, "Going Local in the Age of Global Communications," was delivered by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Marshall, Jr.