Pulitzer winner Dana Priest to visit Oxford Feb. 9

OXFORD, Ohio, Jan. xx, 2009 – Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Dana Priest will present “Adventures in Journalism: From Secret CIA Prisons to the Saga of Walter Reed,” at Miami University’s Hall Auditorium on Monday, Feb. 9, at 4 p.m.

Priest, a Washington Post reporter since 1986, won a Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 2006 for her coverage of secret CIA prisons and international counter-terrorism operations. In 2008, the Washington Post won the Pulitzer for Public Service for “Walter Reed and Beyond,” a 2007 series co-authored by Priest about the Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s failure to provide adequate outpatient care to returning soldiers and Marines.

Priest focused on similar topics in 2008, co-authoring a four-part series about inadequate medical care for immigrants in detention.

Priest was the Post's Pentagon correspondent for seven years, covering the U.S. military involvement in Panama (1989), Iraq (1990) and Kosovo (1999). She has traveled widely with Army Special Forces in Asia, Africa and South America and with Army infantry units on peacekeeping duty in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. In 2003, she wrote “The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military,” which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction.

Priest earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California at Santa Cruz. In addition to her work for the Washington Post, Priest contributes to CBS News and its “60 Minutes” program.

“Adventures in Journalism” is hosted by Miami’s Journalism Program and its Diana Stark Journalism Fund, with support from the Miami chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Department of Communication and the Honors & Scholars Program.

Priest’s presentation is free and open to the public.

For additional information about the event, contact event chair Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Journalism Program, at newberpg@muohio.edu or 513.529.5893.

For additional information about Priest’s Washington Post work, visit:

• “Careless Detention,” (2008, with co-author Amy Goldstein) at: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specials/immigration/index.html

• “Walter Reed and Beyond,” (2007, with co-author Anne Hull and photographer Michel du Cille) at: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/walter-reed/index.html

• “CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons” (2005) at: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2006/04/17/LI2006041700530.html

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