NBC News correspondent Tom Costello will present "Television News in 2005: The 24/7 Challenge to be Smart, Accurate and Fair" on Tuesday, Feb. 8, at 4 p.m. in Old Main Chapel at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Costello, a 1987 graduate of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication,
is the national transportation correspondent at NBC's Washington bureau. He
previously worked as CNBC's NASDAQ correspondent, where he gained national
recognition for covering the stock market's 1999-2000 rally and subsequent
crash. He also covered the market's recovery from the Sept. 11 attacks.
The lecture series will enable students to get the current thinking of renowned journalists on contemporary issues, according to Paul S. Voakes, dean of the journalism school.
Costello is the national transportation correspondent at NBC's Washington bureau. He previously worked as CNBC's NASDAQ correspondent, where he gained national recognition for covering the stock market's 1999-2000 rally and subsequent crash. He also covered the market's recovery from the Sept. 11 attacks.
His awards include a regional Emmy for outstanding live reporting, a Best of Gannett Award and two Best Reporting honors from The Associated Press. Costello began his career as an intern at KUSA-Channel 9 in Denver.
"It's exciting to have someone of Tom Costello's caliber to launch this series," said Voakes.
The John E. Holden Journalism Lecture is an annual series that will feature professional journalists as speakers. It is funded by John E. "Jack" and Marguerite "Peggy" Holden. Jack Holden graduated from CU-Boulder's School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 1948.
Holden worked at the Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald following graduation and acquired full ownership of the paper in the early 1950s. He sold the newspaper to the Lehman family in 1970 and developed a new career at the General Services Administration in Denver. He retired from the GSA in 1987.