Award-winning political journalist and former CNN chief White House correspondent Jessica Yellin will deliver the Robison Lecture at Bradley University on Thursday, October 13 at 7 p.m. in the Michel Student Center ballroom, located at 915 North Elmwood Ave. The event is free and open to the public.
As CNN’s chief White House correspondent, Jessica Yellin has interviewed President Obama, Hillary Clinton, First Lady Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Laura Bush. Yellin provided extensive coverage from the battleground states during the 2008 and 2010 elections and has reported from around the globe, including Russia, China, Latin America, and Mongolia. In Washington, Yellin has covered every significant policy debate of the last 10 years, including the push to reform the financial regulatory system. In 2010, she won a Gracie Award for her reporting on the coverage of women in politics. As a writer, her work has been published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Details.
Since the Robison Lectureship Series began in 1988, Bradley's Department of Communication has hosted more than 30 journalists and journalism educators. The Robison Lecturer program was established in memory of Mary Leslie Robison, an educator and journalist for more than 40 years. She was an assistant professor of English at Bradley from 1957 to 1968. In 1953, the Illinois Association of Journalism Teachers honored her with a gold key for meritorious service to scholastic journalism.
