5月19日上午10点，美国杜克大学教授William Raspberry将到清华大学新闻与传播学院进行演讲，题目是“新闻与言论的区别”，地点是宏盟楼二楼多媒体演示厅，请同学们提前入场。

 
William Raspberry简历

William Raspberry是资深的记者，在上世纪60年代，他就加入了华盛顿邮报。他报道的领域广泛，涉及滥用毒品、犯罪审判、少数民族问题等。他的文章被全国的报纸大量转载，并因此而被《时代》杂志誉为“全国白人报纸中最受尊重的黑人声音”。

Raspberry荣获了众多的新闻奖，他曾于1982年被提名普利策奖，并于1994年获得普利策奖。

他曾任教于霍华德大学，现在是杜克大学教授。

William Raspberry was born October 12, 1935, in Okolona, Mississippi. He earned a B.S. degree from Indiana Central College in 1958 and served as a public information office in the U.S. Army in Washington, D.C., from 1960 to 1962. After his military service, Raspberry joined the staff of the Washington Post, beginning as a teletypist and working his way up to writing obituary notices after a few months. He worked at the newspaper’s city desk, first as reporter then as assistant editor, before taking over in 1966 as columnist of “Potomac Watch,” a column that dealt with local issues. Over time, he shaped the column to match his own interests, which included such issues as drug abuse, criminal justice, and minority issues. Since 1966, Raspberry's columns have been syndicated twice weekly to newspapers around the nation. His reputation for independent thought on national and international issues has led Time magazine to call him “the Lone Ranger of columnists” as well as “the most respected black voice on any white U.S. newspaper.”

Raspberry has received numerous awards for his writing. In 1965, he was named Journalist of the Year by the Capitol Press Club for his coverage of the Los Angeles Watts riot. A member of the Pulitzer Prize Board for several years, Raspberry himself was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1982. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for Distinguished Commentary.

He has taught journalism at Howard University and has served as a commentator and discussion panelist on television. He is currently the Knight Professor of the Practice of Communications and Journalism at the DeWitt Wallace Center and the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University. He teaches public policy courses on the history and impact of equal opportunity and affirmative action; on the effect of socio-economic changes on families, children and communities; on the ways citizens seek political power; and on the press and the public interest.

His book Looking Backward at Us, published in 1991, is a collection of some 50 of Raspberry’s columns, primarily from the 1980s, covering such issues as race, family, education, and criminal justice. Raspberry “consistently manages to make himself heard at a reasonable decibel level,” comments a reviewer in Washington Post Book World, and highlights a comment the columnist made in a commencement address: “Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction — the things that constitute real success — is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.”