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I attended the first Ohio Talks event to see Pulitizer Prize winner and Scripps alumnus Clarence Page speak and receive the Carr Van Anda Award. Page, a columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1989, said that it makes him happy to be educated during his visits to college campuses because students know how to work technology. He said that he was involved with his school paper when he was in high school, and he remembers a teacher writing in a yearbook about him winning a Pulitzer Prize someday. Politics was one of the things that Page discussed during his speech. He said that he believes President Donald Trump is a medium himself and is dedicated to promoting himself.
Page said he was not expecting Trump to win the presidency, and he believed that his low chance of winning made a difference. People who had not voted in a while came out to vote. He said his wife wonders why he writes about Trump a lot, and he told her that it is because what he does with his presidential power is news. He said that he has gotten to see two sides of every story during his time as a reporter, like when he covered a mayoral race.
I liked what he said about serving the public as a journalist. He said that we are supposed to help the public make decisions about different things. We need to make sure that we put our audience first. I agree with what he says because one of the things I have been told is that journalists give people the information to help them make decisions about things. We are not telling people how they should believe. He said that some colleagues asked him if he thought the news will still be around, and he said it will still be there, but it may not be in the form of papers. I agree that we need to be ready to adapt to new platforms because print is still alive, but its role is not what it used to be, according to an article by Jackie Lisk.
Page opened up for some questions toward the end of his speech, and I was the first to ask a question. I asked him what his favorite to story to write has been. He said it was one he wrote in 1967 when Grateful Dead came to town, and he talked to Jerry Garcia.
Page answered a few more questions, and he was soon presented the Carr Van Anda Award by Dr. Robert Stewart. Another award was also received by our student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). The chapter here at OU has won the award eight times. I was happy to hear Clarence Page speak because of his experience as a journalist. I think a deserving person was chosen for the Carr Van Anda Award. I hope to attend other events this semester to hear from professionals in the field of journalism. I want to hear their stories and also advice that they may have for us. I was also happy to see the SPJ chapter receive their award because it makes even more proud to be a student in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism.
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