Journalist Don Hollenbeck is focus of session at Nebraska Book Festival
Nebraska journalist Don Hollenbeck will be the focus of the “Politics and Press of Fear” session during the Nebraska Book Festival at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18, at the Museum of Nebraska History, 15th and P streets.
Hollenbeck’s biographer, Loren Ghiglione, will talk about the journalist’s life in Lincoln and Omaha and discuss his time as a reporter for CBS after World War II in the Joe McCarthy era. He will also show clips from George Clooney’s 2005 movie “Good Night and Good Luck,” in which a fictionalized Hollenbeck plays a role.
Ghiglione, professor of media ethics at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, is the author of “CBS’s Don Hollenbeck: An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism” and “Radio’s Revolution: Don Hollenbeck’s CBS Views the Press,” a collection of transcripts of Hollenbeck’s best radio broadcasts that will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in November.
He will be among several authors speaking at the Nebraska Book Festival, which begins Friday and lasts through Saturday. Following are some the festival’s highlights:
* Friday, Oct. 17, novelist Kent Haruf will give the keynote address at 5:30 p.m. in the Warner Chamber at the Nebraska State Capitol, 15th and K streets. Then at 8 p.m. at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 313 N. 13th St., Ghiglione will introduce the 2007 film “Trumbo,”which discusses the career of former Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted in the 1950s.
*Saturday, Oct. 18, will feature readings, booksellers, vendors and writing workshops beginning at 8 a.m. at the Museum of Nebraska History. The festival will close with a reception honoring Paul Johnsgard at 8 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Museum, Hewit Place, 1155 Q St.
All events are free and open to the public with no preregistration except for the luncheon at noon Saturday at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Culture Center, 333 N. 14th St. For more information or to register for the luncheon, visit www.nebraskabookfestival.org or call (402) 471-4006.
Hollenbeck’s biographer, Loren Ghiglione, will talk about the journalist’s life in Lincoln and Omaha and discuss his time as a reporter for CBS after World War II in the Joe McCarthy era. He will also show clips from George Clooney’s 2005 movie “Good Night and Good Luck,” in which a fictionalized Hollenbeck plays a role.
Ghiglione, professor of media ethics at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, is the author of “CBS’s Don Hollenbeck: An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism” and “Radio’s Revolution: Don Hollenbeck’s CBS Views the Press,” a collection of transcripts of Hollenbeck’s best radio broadcasts that will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in November.
He will be among several authors speaking at the Nebraska Book Festival, which begins Friday and lasts through Saturday. Following are some the festival’s highlights:
* Friday, Oct. 17, novelist Kent Haruf will give the keynote address at 5:30 p.m. in the Warner Chamber at the Nebraska State Capitol, 15th and K streets. Then at 8 p.m. at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, 313 N. 13th St., Ghiglione will introduce the 2007 film “Trumbo,”which discusses the career of former Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted in the 1950s.
*Saturday, Oct. 18, will feature readings, booksellers, vendors and writing workshops beginning at 8 a.m. at the Museum of Nebraska History. The festival will close with a reception honoring Paul Johnsgard at 8 p.m. at the Great Plains Art Museum, Hewit Place, 1155 Q St.
All events are free and open to the public with no preregistration except for the luncheon at noon Saturday at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Culture Center, 333 N. 14th St. For more information or to register for the luncheon, visit www.nebraskabookfestival.org or call (402) 471-4006.
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