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| Oct 6, 2009 |
Free seating available on a first-come, first-served basis for Katie Couric’s appearance at USD on Thursday, Oct. 8 |
| VERMILLION, S.D. -- – Free public seating will be available, first-come, first-served, in Vermillion’s DakotaDome when CBS News anchor Katie Couric speaks Thursday night at The University of South Dakota. |
| No tickets are required for DakotaDome sections A, B, C, G, H and I. Doors will be open by 6 p.m. Last seating is at 6:45 p.m. The program will begin at 7 p.m. The USD Jazz Band will perform from 6 to 7 p.m.
Couric, managing editor and anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” is the 2009 recipient of the Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media, presented jointly by USD and the Freedom Forum. Al Neuharth, a 1950 USD journalism graduate who is founder of the Freedom Forum and USA TODAY, will be on campus to present the award. Following remarks by Couric, she will be interviewed by Jack Marsh, executive director of the Al Neuharth Media Center at USD. Couric then will take questions from the audience. The 90-minute program will be telecast live on South Dakota Public Broadcasting. SDPB-Television will repeat the program at 1 p.m. CDT, Sunday, Oct. 11. Couric is the 22nd recipient of the Al Neuharth Award, which recognizes lifetime achievement in the media and is marking its 20th anniversary. Couric is the fifth CBS journalist to receive the Al Neuharth Award. The first was the legendary Walter Cronkite, in 1989. The only other Neuharth presentation to take place in the DakotaDome was the 2005 event featuring writer and radio personality Garrison Keillor. About 5,500 people attended. |
| About The Freedom Forum |
| The Freedom Forum, based in Arlington, Va., is a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. The foundation focuses on three main priorities: newsroom diversity, the Newseum and First Amendment issues. The Al Neuharth Media Center at The University of South Dakota honors Al Neuharth, a 1950 graduate of The University of South Dakota who founded USA TODAY and the Freedom Forum. In addition to journalism education programs at the University of South Dakota, the Freedom Forum funds and co-directs the Native American Newspaper Career Conference at Crazy Horse Memorial, near Custer, S.D. The workshop, April 13-15, 2004, introduces American Indian high school and tribal college students to the possibilities of a journalism career. |
| About The University of South Dakota |
| Founded in 1862, The University of South Dakota is designated as the only public liberal arts university in the state and is home to a comprehensive College of Arts and Sciences, School of Education, School of Health Sciences, the state's only School of Law, School of Medicine, the accredited Beacom School of Business and the College of Fine Arts. It has an enrollment of more than 9,600 students taught by 400 faculty members. More information is available at www.usd.edu/press/news.
This material is available in an alternate format upon request. Please contact University Relations at 605-677-5759. If you are a person with a disability and need a special accommodation to fully participate in any university activity or event, please contact Disability Services at 605-677-6389 as soon as possible, but no later than 48 hours before the event, so that appropriate arrangements may be made. |
MEDIA CONTACTS: |
| Phillip Carter |
| The University of South Dakota |
| 605-677-6258 |
| phillip.carter@usd.edu |
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