Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger (left) presents Rebecca Blumenstein and Mei Fong with the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting.
Jeff Cole was a much-loved, and much-respected, reporter at the Missoulian back when I first wandered into the newsroom. He was a bull dog of a reporter: tough, determined, hardworking and thorough.
We were heartbroken, many years later, when he was killed in a plane crash while on assignment for the Wall Street Journal.
Each year, the University of Montana School of Journalism memorializes Jeff and celebrates the journalism he championed with a lecture by a world-class journalist.
That presentation is next week, on Thursday, March 18, and this is notice to mark that date on your calendar.
This year’s Jeff Cole Memorial Lecture will be presented by Rebecca Blumenstein, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor at The Wall Street Journal.
Her talk, “Making Journalism and Global Coverage Relevant in the Internet Age,” will begin at 7 p.m. in Gallagher Business Building Room 123. It is free and open to the public.
Blumenstein is a deputy managing editor and the international editor of The Wall Street Journal. Most recently, she was managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Online.
Previously, Blumenstein was the China bureau chief. She oversaw the China team that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2007. Blumenstein also was named to the Aspen Institute’s Henry Crown Fellowship for 2009.
Her topic could not be more relevant to our world, and this significant business of journalism – and one I know Jeff Cole would have loved crunching on for a while.
Sherry Devlin
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