Kent JMC

Denver Post Editor visits JMC, speaks on media and diversity

Gregory Moore delivers McGruder Lecture, receives award

Denver Post editor, Gregory Moore, spoke on the news media and diversity in society at the first Robert G. McGruder Lecture in December.

Almost 400 students, faculty and administrators attended the speech. Moore was introduced by Akron Beacon Journal Publisher, Jim Crutchfield.

JMC Director Jeff Fruit welcomed the group in the Kiva. Also speaking were Jim Gaudino, dean of the College of Communication and Inform-ation; Al Fitzpatrick, former vice president of the Beacon Journal and now a JMC adjunct professor; and Glenn Proctor, associate editor at the Newark NJ Star-Ledger.

For the text of Moore's speech, click here.

Robert McGruder, a 1963 graduate of the JMC program, was a former editor of the Daily Kent Stater. He had been executive editor of the Detroit Free Press and was a winner of the William Taylor Distinguished Alumnus Award. He died of cancer in 2002.

At an earlier luncheon of media professionals hosted by KSU Associate Provost, Steve Michael, President

Denver Post editor Gregory Moore (left) talks with JMC Director Jeff Fruit. Photo by Sarah McCrory.

Robert G. McGruder

Photo by J. Kyle Keener, courtesy of the Detroit Free Press

Carol Cartwright spoke on the university's diversity efforts. Later, she presented Moore with the McGruder Distinguished Lecture Award.

JMC faculty, staff and students met with Moore at a morning reception in Taylor Hall. Later he toured JMC and Student Media facilities.

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