The annual President's Speakers Series brings noted speakers from across Canada and around the globe to campus to address issues of current interest or importance.
Open to ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members.
2024-2025 Academic Year
David M. Shribman
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist | 2024 U.S. Election
Wednesday, Oct. 16, 7:30 p.m.
Convocation Hall
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David M. Shribman served as national political correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, covered Congress and national politics for The New York Times, and was a member of the national staff of The Washington Star.
A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, he began his career at The Buffalo Evening News, where he worked on the city staff before being assigned to the paper's Washington bureau. He was a regular panelist on the PBS show Washington Week, has appeared on both Face the Nation and Meet the Press and is a frequent analyst for the BBC and CBC.
Shribman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his coverage of Washington and the American political scene. He writes a weekly column, "My Point," syndicated throughout the United States and a biweekly column for the Globe and Mail.
He graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College with a degree in history and did graduate work in European and African history at Cambridge University in the U.K. as a Reynolds Scholar.
He is an emeritus member of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College and of the Board of Visitors of Dartmouth’s Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. He is a member of the selection committee for the Profiles in Courage Award given by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and is chairman of the selection committee of the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award given by Colby College. He also sits on the national board of the Calvin Coolidge Foundation and holds four honorary degrees.
​​​​​Co-sponsored by the Josiah Wood Lecture Fund at ÕýÆ·À¶µ¼º½ and the Donald J. Savoie Institute at the Université de Moncton.