Thursday, March 25, 2004
CBS News correspondent on campus April 5
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Martha Teichner, a correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning who has spent more than a dozen years as a foreign correspondent covering major international events, will be at the University of Southern Indiana for two lectures on Monday, April 5. In the first session at 3 p.m. in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center, Teichner will answer questions of USI students who are interested in combining politics and journalism as a career. The public lecture will be at 7 p.m. in Mitchell Auditorium where she will talk about her experiences as a war correspondent. There is no charge for either session. Teichner has been based in New York with CBS since December 1994. Her work has been recognized with four Emmy Awards, for reports on Princess Diana’s death, the Detroit newspaper strike, and a factory workers’ lawsuit against the Maytag Company. She started with CBS News as a correspondent based in the Atlanta bureau in 1977. During the first Persian Gulf War, Teichner was one of a small group of female journalists allowed to accompany U.S. troops into battle, spending nearly six weeks with the 1st Armored Division in the Saudi desert and also covered the conflict from Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, and Israel. She received a Breakthrough Award, from Men, Women, and the Media. There is a lighter side to Teichner’s work. She kept an in inaugural diary reporting on her experiences during the 1992 Inauguration of President Clinton. Quoted in a Charleston, South Carolina newspaper, Teichner said, “I was in Hillary’s class (1969) at Wellesley College, and while we were not close friends, I really liked her. But, of course, everyone liked her. She was a real leader and was working to get the curriculum changed to include black studies and women’s studies and to see some real social changes take place at Wellesley.” Her appearances are being sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and Political Science and the Department of Communications, with additional support from the acting dean of the School of Liberal Arts and the vice president for Academic Affairs. |
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