Investigative journalist to visit UNH
Investigative
journalist John Christie, UNH ’70, will give a talk entitled “Leaving
journalism’s false god behind” on Tuesday, April 1 at 5 p.m. in MUB Theater I.
The talk is free and open to the public.
Christie, editor-in-chief
and co-founder of The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, is the 2014
Donald M. Murray Visiting Journalist. He will visit journalism classes and meet
with the staff of The New Hampshire while on campus.
For more information on Christie's visit, go to http://cola.unh.edu/english/program/englishjournalism-ba/visiting-journalist-program.
He founded the
non-profit investigative news service based in the state’s capitol, Augusta, in
2009 with his wife, Naomi Schalit, and has served as its publisher and senior reporter.
The Center has
published more than 150 investigative stories about Maine state government that
have distributed as a public service to more than 30 Maine daily and weekly
newspapers.
Christie is a media
veteran whose 40-year career includes work in Massachusetts, Maine and Florida
as a writer, editor, general manager and publisher for newspapers owned by
Tribune Co., Dow Jones and Co. and the Seattle Times Co.
He has won numerous
awards as a reporter and editor, including twice for best public service
reporting in New England from the AP, and he was the primary editor at the
South Florida Sun-Sentinel of two Pulitzer Prize finalists.
Christie was one of the
first journalists to serve as a full-time training editor for a newspaper, a
position that included coaching writers and editors on their craft and creating
a news writing program for high school and college minority students.
Christie, a native of
Dover, N.H., learned the craft of writing and coaching writers as an
undergraduate at the University of New Hampshire (class of 1970), where he was
a student of Professor Donald M. Murray and managing editor of The New
Hampshire.
He is the editor of
four books, including a bestselling book on Hurricane Andrew. His freelance
work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Boston Phoenix, Boston magazine, Yankee
magazine and elsewhere. He has spoken on newspaper management and writing in
the United States, Europe and South America.
In 2009, he retired
after nine years as the president and publisher of Central Maine Newspapers,
which publishes two daily papers, the Kennebec Journal and the Morning
Sentinel. The retirement lasted only a few months when he founded the Maine
Center for Public Interest Reporting.
His industry service
includes: visiting faculty at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies; past
president of the Massachusetts State House Correspondents Association; past
president of Maine Newspaper Publishers Association; and the journalism
advisory board at Florida International University.
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