A Campaign Narrative: Why Iowa Matters-or Not!
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, 14 Sep 2011 at 8:00 pm |
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| Location: | Sun Room, Memorial Union |
| Cost: | Free |
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| Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
| Channel: | Lecture Series |
| Categories: | Diversity Lectures |
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Clarence Page was a reporter, producer and community affairs director at WBBM-TV from 1980 to 1984. His awards include a 1980 Illinois UPI awards for community service for an investigative series titled "The Black Tax" and the Edward Scott Beck Award for overseas reporting in 1976. He also received lifetime achievement awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, the Chicago Headline Club and the National Association of Black Journalists. In 1992, he was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame.
Born in Dayton, Ohio, he grew up in Middletown. He began his journalism career as a freelance writer and photographer for the Middletown Journal and Cincinnati Enquirer at the age of seventeen. He graduated from Ohio University with a bachelor of science in journalism in 1969. He also has received honorary degrees from Columbia College in Chicago, Lake Forest College, the Chicago Theological Seminary and the John Marshall School of Law, among others.
Page is married, has one son, and lives in the suburbs of Washington, DC.