Bob Marshall, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and columnist who also serves as conservation editor for Field & Stream, will deliver “Going Local in the Age of Global Communications,” the 2009 Muriel and Clarence J. Caulfield Memorial Lecture, at Loyola College in Maryland on Thursday, April 23. The event begins at 4 p.m. in McGuire Hall.

A 1971 graduate of Loyola University New Orleans, Bob Marshall has been a reporter and columnist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune for 35 years. Throughout his career, he has covered such widely varying topics as professional, college and Olympic sports, media, and special projects focusing on environmental issues. He has earned two Pulitzer Prizes. The first, in 1997, was for “Oceans of Trouble,” a series analyzing conditions in the Gulf of Mexico that threaten the world’s fish supply. The other, in 2005, was received for an investigation of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ errors and their relationship to the disaster that followed Hurricane Katrina.

Marshall has received many other regional and national honors for his work, and his environmental reporting has earned him recognition from a range of conservation and professional groups. In 2004, Marshall was also elected to the Circle of Chiefs by the Outdoor Writers Association of America, the group’s highest honor for contributions to conservation.

Marshall’s other professional credits include Outdoor Life, Men’s Journal, National Geographic Adventures and ESPN’s The Outdoors Writers.

The Caulfield Lecture series at Loyola was established by the family of Clarence J. Caulfield, a 1922 alumnus who spent 26 years as an editor at The Baltimore 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.