Gene Foreman, who has 41 years of experience in newspaper journalism, will be the 2013 speaker at the Roy Reed Lecture from 7-9 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, in the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The Roy Reed Lecture Series was created to honor Roy Reed, a renowned writer and reporter for the Arkansas Gazette and the New York Times. Reed taught journalism for 16 years at the University of Arkansas, where he stressed not only the importance of telling stories accurately but of telling them well, with special consideration for language. Read More