CNN senior media correspondent and "Reliable Sources" host Brian Stelter will visit Bowling
Green State University March 23 and 24 to visit with journalism and public relations students and
deliver the 2015 Florence and Jesse Currier lecture.
His talk will begin at 7 p.m. March 24 in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union Theater.
"I’m looking forward to speaking with lots of students," said Stelter, who in 2013 published
the New York Times bestseller "Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV."
On "Reliable Sources," Stelter examines the top media stories each week. He also reports and
writes about media for CNN/US, CNN International, CNN.com and CNNMoney.
Stelter, 29, joined CNN full time in November 2013 from the New York Times, where he had been a media
reporter since 2007, having been hired by the respected newspaper immediately after graduating from
college.
"I knew upon meeting Brian in his freshman year that he was driven toward success," said Dr.
Kimberly Lauffer, an instructor of journalism and public relations at BGSU and formerly an associate
professor of journalism and new media at Towson University. "It wasn’t just the blog he created at
18; it was the maturity he displayed in gaining the trust of news industry insiders and using the
information they provided in a responsible way."
As a freshman in college, Stelter created TVNewser, a blog about the TV news industry. He sold it six
months later to MediaBistro.com but continued to write and edit for the blog as he completed his college
career.
He also served as the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Towerlight, and was instrumental in
helping it become truly independent of the university. He now serves as a member of the board of
Baltimore Student Media, a nonprofit organization that publishes the independent newspaper.
Stelter graduated from Towson in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in mass communication, focusing on
journalism and new media.
His BGSU talk is funded by the Florence and Jesse Currier Endowment, which supports seminars and faculty
research projects relevant to the journalism department.
Past Currier speakers have included columnist Molly Ivins, filmmaker Michael Moore, CBS News reporter
Steve Hartman, Fox News analyst Juan Williams, Rolling Stone writer Evan Wright and NPR reporter Brian
Bull.
