Award-Winning Investigative Journalist to Lecture at OSU

Monday, April 5, 2010

(April 5, 2010, STILLWATER, Okla.) – Danny Robbins, an investigative reporter for The Associated Press, will deliver the 23rd annual Paul Miller Lecture at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 8 in the Student Union Little Theatre at Oklahoma State University.

Robbins is an investigative reporter at the Dallas bureau of the AP.  He previously was a member of the investigative projects team at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Before becoming a full-time investigative journalist, he worked as a sports reporter specializing in investigative and enterprise stories for the Houston Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and the Dallas Times Herald.

Robbins has been named Investigative Reporter of the Year by the Headliners Foundation of Texas and Print Journalist of the Year by the Houston Press Club. He has twice finished first in the investigative reporting category of the Associated Press Sports Editors contest.

Robbins, a 1975 graduate of the University of Texas, lives in Grapevine, Texas.

The lecture is open to the public and is partially funded by a gift from the Paul Miller Family Foundation.  Mr. Miller was a distinguished 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. The OSU School of Journalism and Broadcasting is one of 24 departments in the College of Arts & Sciences at OSU.