DATE: August 18, 2008

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WRITER: Peter Kent, 864-656-4355
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Noted newsman, USC communications school dean to speak at Clemson

CLEMSON — University of South Carolina communications dean and veteran CNN correspondent Charles Bierbauer will present “Saturation Point: The Multimedia Tsunami of Election 2008” at Clemson in September.

Bierbauer kicks off the Calhoun Lecture Series on Sept. 9 at the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts on the Clemson University campus. His presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. and the public is welcome to attend. There is no charge for presentation.

Bierbauer will speak about how the public has gained its information, including the significantly increased impact of the Internet on the upcoming election.

Bierbauer became the first dean of the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies when it was created in 2002. He came to the University of South Carolina after an award-winning, globetrotting journalism career.

From 1981to 2001, Bierbauer was a correspondent for CNN in Washington. For nine years, he covered the Reagan and Bush administrations as CNN’s senior White House correspondent. He joined CNN as its Pentagon correspondent, covered five presidential campaigns from 1984 to 2000, and spent five terms as the network’s Supreme Court correspondent.

This year’s Calhoun Lecture Series will be the first since the death of Dr. William H. Hunter, a devoted founder of the program. Dr. Hunter believed that it was vital to a rigorous education that students be exposed to provocative, thoughtful views by bringing nationally and internationally recognized figures to campus to be challenging and challenged in a lively exchanges of ideas.

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Editors: For more information about Bierbauer and to download a photograph of him, go to www.sc.edu/cmcis/admin/bierbauer.html.