The Jessica Savitch Distinguished Journalism Lecture Series continues on Thursday, April 9, with a lecture by Emmy Award-winning television journalist Catherine Crier.
Admission is free and open to the public.
As host of Fox News's The Crier Report , a nightly, live, one-hour interview program, Crier speaks with the leading newsmakers of the day, celebrities, and opinion makers. She came to Fox News in 1996 after more than three years with ABC News, where she served as a news correspondent for World News Tonight and was a regular substitute for news anchor Peter Jennings. Crier was also seen regularly as a fill-in weekend anchor , and substituted for Ted Koppel on Nightline. She has worked as a civil litigation attorney and as a prosecutor for the Dallas County District Attorney's office, and is a noted speaker and author. The Jessica Savitch Distinguished Journalism Lecture Series honors the 1968 Ithaca College graduate who became an Emmy Award-winning NBC News anchor and correspondent.