BU Robison Lecture on Oct. 22nd by MTV News Correspondent & Producer Gideon Yago
Posted by Debbie Adlof on October 9th, 2008
MTV News correspondent and producer Gideon Yago will give the Robison Lecture at Bradley University on Wednesday, October 22, at 8 p.m. in Neumiller Lecture Hall, located in Bradley Hall. A reception will be held immediately following the lecture in the atrium of the Michel Student Center. Yago’s lecture, “They’re Doing What? Politics and the Youth Vote,” will be an unbiased look at the presidential election and other global issues affecting young adults.
Yago began his career as a reporter on the 2000 presidential election. After the events of September 11, 2001, MTV shifted its news coverage from entertainment to hard news with Yago at the forefront with specials and documentaries reporting wars, elections, global crises, and social trends affecting young people. His hip and unbiased reporting earned him an Emmy for his coverage in the 2004 presidential election. His other awards include the George Foster Peabody Award for work in MTV’s “Fight For Your Rights: Sexual Health” campaign and the Edward R. Murrow Award for outstanding documentary coverage of the Iraq war.
He has had work published in Rolling Stone, Spin and Vice Magazines and on NPR’s “This American Life.”
Yago currently has two film scripts in production and has been the host of MTV and MySpace.com’s Presidential Dialogues for the 2008 presidential elections. He also is head writer and producer for the news magazine “The Wrap” on MTV2.
The Robison Endowed Lectureship Series was established by the late Mary Leslie Robison to bring distinguished journalists and journalism educators to Bradley University. She taught journalism as an assistant professor at Bradley from 1957 to 1969. The Lectureship began in 1988, two years after her death.