April 17, 2008
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter to give Gloyd Lecture May 1
David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times and best-selling author, will deliver the 2008 Stephen Stewart Gloyd Endowed Lecture. The lecture, titled Inequality, the Vast Majority, and Health, takes place at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, May 1, in Hogness Auditorium, A-420 Health Sciences Center. The Gloyd Lecture is sponsored by the UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine.
An investigative reporter since 1967, Johnston has exposed numerous abuses by politicians, corporations, government agencies, and others in such newspapers as the Detroit Free Press, the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and The New York Times. He is the author of Perfectly Legal, a national best seller on our tax system that won the 2004 Investigative Book of the Year award. His first book was Temples of Chance, an expose of the casino industry, and his most recent book is Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense. Johnston will sign books available for purchase in the Health Sciences Lobby following his lecture.
Johnston studied economics on fellowship in the graduate school at the University of Chicago. He taught for eight years at the University of Southern California and lectures at universities, religious institutions, community forums, and other places across the country on the issues in his books. He also teaches reporting and interviewing techniques as well as ethics.
The Gloyd Lecture was established in 1982 in recognition of Dr. Park Willis Gloyd and his nearly 20 years of service as co-chair and subsequently chair of the Department of Orthopedics at what was then known as Children’s Orthopedic Hospital. The lectureship was later endowed by members of the Gloyd family, and in 1990 Park Gloyd changed its name to the Stephen Stewart Gloyd Endowed Lectureship to recognize his son Steve’s work in the field of international health.
Seating at the lecture is first-come, first-served. For more information, please contact Holly Weese at hweese@u.washington.edu.
