Hillsdale College Names Kevin Williamson as Spring 2015 Pulliam Fellow

HILLSDALE, Mich., March 24, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hillsdale College today announced that National Review journalist Kevin Williamson has been named as the Spring 2015 Eugene C. Pulliam Distinguished Fellow in Journalism. Williamson is teaching a one-credit course for students in the Herbert H. Dow II Program in American Journalism from March 16 through 27, and will deliver a public lecture on campus titled "The End of Rational Public Discourse" on March 26.  The lecture will be livestreamed at www.hillsdale.edu/pr/pulliam.  

"Kevin Williamson is one of the finest reporters and editorialists at work today," said John J. Miller, director of the Dow Journalism Program. "He is smart and wise and often howlingly funny. We are fortunate to have him on campus. He will help our students become better writers and thinkers."

During his course, "Covering Controversy," Williamson will discuss why and how Rolling Stone got its story so wrong in its reporting on fraternity culture and sexual assault at the University of Virginia. Lessons will deal with ethics, sources, data, police, visual representation, and fact-checking. Williamson and his students will also produce a package of original reporting and commentary.

Williamson is a correspondent for National Review and the author of The End Is Near and It's Going To Be Awesome: How Going Broke Will Leave America Richer, Happier, and More Secure, The Dependency Agenda and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism. Williamson also served as editor-in-chief of three newspapers and was the founding editor of The Bulletin in Philadelphia. He is a regular commentator on Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC and NPR. His work has appeared in the New York Post, the New York Daily News, Commentary, Academic Questions and other publications.

"I have had the pleasure of working with a number of Hillsdale graduates over the year, and have enormous respect and affection for the college," Williamson said.

The Pulliam Fellowship is named for Eugene C. Pulliam, a renowned newspaper publisher, philanthropist and community leader. Throughout his career, Pulliam owned and operated 46 newspapers in nine states and was president of Central Newspapers Inc., a multibillion-dollar media corporation. He considered freedom and liberty to be the real mission of any American newspaper, and he protected and demanded truth. Pulliam's legacy of philanthropy to education and journalism continues through his daughters, Corinne Pulliam Quayle and Suzanne Pulliam Murphy.

Past Pulliam Fellows include James Rosen, David Satter, Jonah Goldberg, Kimberley Strassel, Mark Steyn, Tim Carney, Andrew Ferguson, P.J. O'Rourke, Richard Brookhiser, William McGurn, Naomi Schaefer Riley, Nolan Finley, and Stephen Hayes.

The "Covering Controversy" course is open to registered Hillsdale College students only. For information on attending the public lecture, visit www.hillsdale.edu/pr/pulliam.

Hillsdale College, founded in 1844, has built a national reputation through its maintenance of a classical core curriculum and its principled refusal to accept federal or state taxpayer subsidies. It also conducts an outreach effort promoting civil and religious liberty, including a free monthly speech digest, Imprimis, with a current circulation of over two million.

SOURCE Hillsdale College

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