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Oct. 22, 2013 – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheryl Gay Stolberg, a Washington correspondent for The New York Times, will speak on “A Reporter’s Journey Through Washington: What You Won’t Read in the Newspaper” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 29 in Ford Chapel at Allegheny College. Her talk is part of the college’s Year of Civil Rights, which celebrates the 50th anniversary in 2014 of the Civil Rights Act.

Stolberg has covered mob bosses, race riots, natural disasters, scientific breakthroughs and, for the past decade, American politics. She began her career in 1983 at The Providence (R.I.) Journal and later moved to The Los Angeles Times, where she shared in Pulitzer Prizes awarded for coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

In 1997 Stolberg joined the Washington bureau of The New York Times to write about science policy and bioethics, including the AIDS epidemic, anthrax attacks and embryonic stem cell research. In 2002 she began covering politics and public policy, first as a Congressional correspondent and later as a White House correspondent during the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

More information on Year of Civil Rights events at Allegheny College, including a keynote presentation by Julian Bond on November 15 and an undergraduate conference on March 28 and 29, can be found at www.allegheny.edu/200.