Leon Dash portrait in an office in fron of a window.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Leon Dash delivered the inaugural Peggy M. Peterman lecture. Dash, a former reporter for The Washington Post, encouraged students to report and write a type of journalism “that has long been absent.”
Dash urged USF students reporting and writing in the community must to stories “into context. Not just focusing on isolated stories but trying to put them together to see what is really ailing the community.”
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Pulitzer Prize Winner logo linking to Dash's bio..
University of Illinois file photo