Hodding Carter III, University Professor of Public Policy and Leadership at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will deliver the 2008 Thomas W. Lambeth Lecture in Public Policy Sept. 16 on campus.
Carter will discuss “Public Policy, Public Opinion and the Public Good” in a free public talk at 5:30 p.m. in Gerrard Hall.
For four years, Carter served as State Department spokesman for President Jimmy Carter — notably during the Iran hostage crisis — and went on to become a nationally known television commentator. In the 1980s, he won four Emmy Awards and the Edward R. Murrow Award for documentaries for “Inside Story,” a media criticism series. A decade later, he became a chief correspondent for “Frontline” on PBS. He was also a panelist on “This Week with David Brinkley,” and appeared frequently on many other major networks, cable programs and the BBC. He was a Washington opinion columnist for The Wall Street Journal and has been a frequent contributor to The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Carter began his journalism career as a reporter with his family-owned Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, Miss., where his father was a Pulitzer Prize-winning publisher and editor.
Before coming to UNC, Carter served as president and chief executive officer of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The Lambeth Lectureship, which honors 1957 UNC alumnus Thomas Willis Lambeth, was endowed in 2006 supports public lectures by scholars and policymakers.
For more information, contact Richard "Pete" Andrews, chair of the department of public policy, (919) 843-5011, pete_andrews@unc.edu.
