Speaker Series: Fredricka Whitfield
CNN news anchor Fredricka Whitfield will give a public Speaker Series lecture.
Whitfield is based in the network’s world headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, and anchors the weekend edition of CNN Newsroom.
Prior to joining CNN in 2002, Whitfield was a correspondent for NBC News and served as an Atlanta-based correspondent for NBC Nightly News, The Today Show and Dateline NBC. She was also a reporter and anchor at WPLG-TV in Miami, an evening anchor for News Channel 8 in Washington, D.C., and a general assignment reporter at KTVT-TV in Dallas and at WTNH in New Haven, Connecticut. She began her professional career as a reporter and morning anchor for WCIV in Charleston, South Carolina.
She boasts a more than three-decades-long, award-winning career in broadcast journalism.
Her reporting ranges from covering stories from the Cuban-Haitian refugee crisis in the ’90s, to the 2000 Bush-Gore presidential race and recount, the Kosovo War refugee crisis, the Afghanistan War and start of second Iraq War, the 2008 Inauguration of former President Barack Obama, the Atlanta, Beijing and London Olympic Games, the 50th anniversary of Voting Rights Act in Selma, Alabama, and the presidential primary races and national Conventions. Her breaking news coverage includes domestic and international stories, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton, a distinguished scholar in IU’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, will present Whitfield with the Lee H. Hamilton Public Service Fellowship. The talk is co-sponsored by The Media School, the Indiana Center on Representative Government and the Office of the Vice President for Government Relations and Economic Engagement.