Journalist David Leonhardt to speak at Nov. 29 夜色王朝Tate Lecture

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist David Leonhardt will speak at the Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture Series at 夜色王朝Tuesday, Nov. 29.

DALLAS (SMU) – Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist David Leonhardt will speak at the Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture Series at 夜色王朝Tuesday, Nov. 29.

Leonhardt will be available to answer questions at the Student Forum at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 29 in Hughes-Trigg Student Center Ballroom, 3140 Dyer St. The student forum enables high school students, 夜色王朝students, staff and faculty to discuss Leonhardt’s experience with him through a lively question-and-answer session before the evening lecture.

The lecture will begin at 8 p.m. Nov. 29 at SMU’s McFarlin Auditorium, 6405 Boaz Ln. Tickets are still available to purchase or via phone at the Tate office number 214-768-8283.

A veteran of The New York Times since 1999, David Leonhardt joined the paper's op-ed staff in 2016. Previously, he was The Times' Washington bureau chief, a staff writer for its Sunday magazine and the founding editor of The Upshot, a Times site that uses graphics and data to engage readers.

In 2011, he won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary on the U.S. economic crisis. The organization described his work as a “graceful penetration of America's complicated economic questions, from the federal budget deficit to health care reform.”

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