Political reporter speaks Tuesday night on campus

Journalist Paul Kane

4:12 p.m., March 21, 2005--Paul Kane, an award-winning reporter for the newspaper Roll Call, will speak on "The Ups and Downs of Covering Capitol Hill" at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 22, in 205 Gore Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

A 1992 UD alumnus and former managing editor/columnist of The Review, Kane just last month received from the National Press Foundation the prestigious Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress. At UD, Kane majored in political science and completed a concentration in journalism.

He was honored Feb. 17 by the National Press Foundation for a Roll Call story that he wrote last May about the fund-raising activities of the Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries. That foundation had raised more than $21 million in the previous two years, making it one of the largest charities linked to a political figure.

Kane will talk about how he researched and reported the story, and what he found as he looked into the nature of the foundation's fund-raising.

Kane regularly covers the U.S. Senate for Roll Call. A twice-weekly publication, with about 20,000 subscribers to the print edition, with another 2,000 subscribers to its online version, Roll Call covers the political inhabitants of Capitol Hill. The publication is widely read by those who work in the Washington political arena.

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