McGill Lecture
Chronological list of previous lecturers
1979 Eugene Patterson, The St. Petersburg Times [pdf]
1980 Tom Wicker, The New York Times [pdf]
1981 Anthony Lewis, The New York Times [pdf]
1981 Tom Johnson, The Los Angeles Times [pdf]
1982 Robert Maynard, The Oakland Tribune [pdf]
1983 Katharine Graham, The Washington Post [pdf]
1984 John Seigenthaler, The Tennessean [pdf]
1985 Gene Roberts, The Philadelphia Inquirer
1986 Alvah Chapman, Knight Ridder
1988 Jack Nelson, The Los Angeles Times [pdf]
1989 Reg Murphy, The Baltimore Sun [pdf]
1990 Claude Sitton, The Raleigh News and Observer [pdf]
1991 Celestine Sibley, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution [pdf]
1992 Richard Oppel, The Charlotte Observer [pdf]
1993 David Lawrence, Jr., The Miami Herald
1994 Clarence Page, The Chicago Tribune [pdf]
1995 Helen Thomas, United Press International [pdf]
1996 Frank Deford, National Public Radio [pdf]
1996 Robin Wright, The Los Angeles Times [pdf]
1997 Robert J. Danzig, The Hearst Corporation [pdf]
1998 Jay Smith, Cox Newspapers, Inc. [pdf]
1999 Deborah Roberts, ABC News
2000 John Egerton, Journalist and Author [pdf]
2001 Cynthia Tucker, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution [pdf]
2002 Geneva Overholser, University of Missouri [pdf]
2003 Hodding Carter, III, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation [pdf]
2005 Jerry Ceppos, Knight Ridder [pdf]
2006 Leonard Pitts Jr., The Miami Herald [pdf]
2007 Julia Wallace, The Atlanta Journal Constitution [pdf]
2008 Hannah Allam, McClatchy Newspapers [pdf]
2009 Martin Kaiser, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel [pdf] [Vimeo]
2010 Paul Steiger, editor in chief, ProPublica. [pdf]
2011 Jan Schaffer, executive director of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism [pdf] [Vimeo]
2012 Bill Adair, editor of PolitiFact [pdf] [Vimeo]
2013 Christine Brennan, sports columnist for USA Today [YouTube]
2014 Antonio Mora, host of Al Jazeera America’s “Consider This,” [YouTube]
2015 Kathy Gannon, Associated Press Special Regional Correspondent for Afghanistan and Pakistan [pdf] [YouTube] [flickr]
2016 David Armstrong, senior enterprise reporter for STAT [pdf] [YouTube]
2017 Souad Mekhennet, The Washington Post
2018 Marina Walker Guevara, deputy director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists [YouTube]
2019 David McCraw, deputy general counsel for the New York Times [story]
2021 Omar Jimenez, a CNN correspondent based in Chicago [YouTube]
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