by Julie Kim
Staff Writer
Journalist Linda Deutsch will give an open lecture on celebrity trial reporting on Tuesday, May 4, at 11:30 a.m. in the President’s Dining Room.
The University’s student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists are sponsoring the event.
A native of New Jersey, she is an expert on covering legal affairs and is also a court reporter for the Associated Press.
Some of her past reporting include trials of Charles Manson, Patty Hearst, Daniel Ellsberg, the Menendez brothers and the four Los Angeles police officers involved in the Rodney King case.
She also earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination for her coverage of the O.J. Simpson criminal and civil cases.
Deutsch is currently covering the Robert Blake trial.
For more information, contact Kenneth Todd Ruiz, student SPJ president and editor in chief for the Campus Times at todd@frontlinedispatch.com or Ext. 4290.
