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Veteran Washington journalist at UD March 2 5:46 p.m., Feb. 25, 2005--David Hoffman, assistant managing editor for foreign coverage at The Washington Post, one of the nation’s most prestigious newspapers, will speak with UD students at 3:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 2, in 205 Gore Hall. The event, which is open to all UD students and faculty, is part of Global Agenda, UD’s annual international affairs speaker series and an undergraduate course in which students meet practitioners in foreign policy and media from the U.S. and other nations. Organized by Ralph Begleiter, UD’s Rosenberg Professor of Communication and distinguished journalist in residence, the series is cosponsored by UD and the World Affairs Council of Wilmington. Before his recent appointment, Hoffman, a UD alumnus, served as the newspaper’s foreign editor since 2001. He joined the newspaper in 1982 after covering Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign for Knight-Ridder newspapers. He covered the White House during the presidencies of Reagan and George H.W. Bush and was a diplomatic correspondent in Washington from 1990-92. From 1992-94, Hoffman was the newspaper's bureau chief in Jerusalem. From 1995 until January 2001, he was Moscow bureau chief, a tour which later produced an acclaimed book, The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia, published in 2002. From 1975-77, Hoffman worked for the Wilmington News Journal newspapers. From 1977-78, he was a correspondent for Capitol Hill News Service in Washington. In 1979-1982, he was Washington correspondent for the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury-News, and economics correspondent for Knight-Ridder Newspapers. In 1985, Hoffman received both the Aldo Beckman Award for White House correspondence and the Merriman Smith award for deadline coverage of the president. In 1989, he received the Gerald R. Ford Award for distinguished coverage of the presidency. In 1999, he was awarded the SAIS-Novartis Prize for Excellence in International Journalism for a series of articles published in 1998 on the legacy of the Cold War in Russia. Born in Palo Alto, Calif., Hoffman attended the University of Delaware, and in 1994-95 was a senior associate member at St. Antony's College, Oxford. He is married to Carole Fleming Hoffman, a University of Delaware graduate. They have two sons and live in Maryland. To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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