Journalism trailblazer in career issues to lecture at OSU

Friday, March 27, 2009

(March 27, 2009, STILLWATER, Okla.) – Anita Bruzzese, a nationally syndicated columnist for Gannett News Service and USAToday.com, will deliver the 22nd annual Paul Miller Lecture at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 16, in the Student Union Little Theatre at Oklahoma State University.
 
Bruzzese has covered workplace and career issues since 1992.
 
Bruzzese was one of the nation’s first journalists to cover career issues on a regular basis, said Derina Holtzhausen, director of the OSU School of Journalism and Broadcasting. “She is in the forefront of today’s workplace columnists and we are pleased she will share her common-sense ideas, combined with encouragement, about the workplace.”
 
Bruzzese is the author of two career advice books. She was managing editor of the Investigative Reporters and Editors Journal at the University of Missouri. As a freelancer, she wrote for The Miami Herald, Incentive, Florida Trend and Human Resource Executive.
 
Bruzzese was named a media fellow at Smith College by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. She also was named a Knight Center Fellow at the University of Maryland.
 
A gift from the Paul Miller Family Foundation has partially financed the lecture series.  Mr. Miller was a graduate of the OSU School of Journalism and Broadcasting in 1931, who went on to distinguish himself as the president of the Associated Press and the Gannett Company.
 
To learn more, e-mail Melissa Powers at melissa.powers@okstate.edu or phone (405) 744-6357. The OSU School of Journalism and Broadcasting is one of 24 departments in the College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more, visit http://cas.okstate.edu.