Peter Applebome, writer and editor at the New York Times, will present a lecture on “All the News that's Fit to Blog: Old Media, New Media and the Brave New World of Election 2008”  

Oct. 13, 4:10 p.m. Wilson Hall - Room 126 (Google map of this location)

The lecture, co-sponsored by the RobertPennWarrenCenter for the Humanities and the Communications Studies Department, is free and open to the public. Live video of this event will be streamed from VUCast, http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news.

Applebome joined the Times as a correspondent and bureau chief of the Houston Bureau in 1987. He went from there to Atlanta, where he was Southern bureau chief 1989-1994. He was the chief education correspondent October 1994-January 1998 and then was a correspondent on the culture desk. In September 1999, he became assistant metropolitan editor for four years.

Applebome’s lecture is part of the series “Realities and Representations: The 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign.” The series brings to Vanderbilt’s campus leading scholars and critics to reflect upon the historic nature of the presidential race, as well as to examine the ways in which mass media are shaping the national response to the campaign.

The Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities promotes interdisciplinary research and study in the humanities, social sciences, and, when appropriate, natural sciences. Members of the Vanderbilt community representing a wide variety of specializations take part in the Warren Center’s programs. The work of the Warren Center strengthens the place of the humanities not only at Vanderbilt University but also within the larger society in which we live.

For more information about the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, call 343-6060 or visit http://www.vanderbilt.edu/rpw_center/center.htm.

The event is also part of DigitalVU month at Vanderbilt