 | Margaret Warner |
Margaret Warner, senior correspondent for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS, will speak about "The Debate Over Civil Liberties in Post-9/11 America" when she visits Yale on Monday, April 12, as the next Poynter Fellow in Journalism.
Warner will explore the growing controversy over how the U.S. "war on terror" is affecting civil liberties in America -- a controversy that is not a new one for this country in a time of war, she notes.
Her talk, the annual Gary Fryer Memorial Lecture, will take place at 4 p.m. in Rm. 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. Earlier that day, at 2:30 p.m., Warner will speak about her career in journalism and "The NewsHour" as the guest at a master's tea in Saybrook College, 90 High St. She will take questions at both events, which are free and open to the public.
Warner is one of "The NewsHour's" three Washington-based senior correspondents who join Jim Lehrer in interviewing newsmakers, policymakers and opinion leaders on the nightly program. Her discussions run the gamut from foreign and defense issues to domestic politics, Congress and the White House, as well as legal affairs, science and health, and the arts. She also serves as a backup anchor to Lehrer and occasionally reports from the field.
In addition, Warner is co-host of "America Abroad," an hourly radio series on international affairs distributed in the U.S. by Public Radio International and heard on numerous National Public Radio stations.
A 1971 graduate of Yale College, Warner joined "The NewsHour" in 1993 with a broad background in print journalism. She had spent 10 years at Newsweek magazine, holding the positions of political correspondent in several presidential campaigns; White House correspondent during the Reagan presidency; and chief diplomatic correspondent during the first Bush presidency. During that time, she was also a regular panelist on two television commentary shows, CNN's "The Capital Gang" and PBS's "Washington Week in Review."
She came to Newsweek from The Wall Street Journal. Before that, she was a reporter with the San Diego Union in California and the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire.
Warner's reporting has been recognized with numerous awards. Her diplomatic coverage during the Gulf War made her runner-up for the National Press Club's 1990 Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Reporting. She also shared, with other Newsweek reporters and editors, the prestigious George Polk Award for coverage of terrorism and the Best Reporting Award from the Overseas Press Club. She won two Hess Awards during the 2000 presidential campaign, one for her field-reported piece on the Bush-Gore battle for the state of Florida.
Established by the late Nelson Poynter '27 M.A., the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism brings to the Yale campus distinguished reporters, editors and others who have made important contributions to the media. The annual Fryer Lecture honors the late Gary G. Fryer, who served as Yale's director of public affairs and special assistant to the president, and also directed the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism from 1994 until his death in 1997.
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