Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Time Inc. editor-at-large James Steele will present "Disturbing the Peace: Investigative Reporting in America" on Tuesday, Oct. 25, at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Steele will deliver the second annual John E. Holden Journalism Lecture at 5:30 p.m. in Hale Science Building room 270, with a reception to follow. The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Steele is a nationally acclaimed investigative journalist. He began his career at the Kansas City Star and began working with Donald Barlett, his reporting partner of 30 years, while at the Philadelphia Inquirer. The team won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting twice.
Steele also has written several books with Barlett including "America: What Went Wrong?," "America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?" and "Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business and Bad Medicine."
The John E. Holden Journalism Lecture is an annual series designed to give students the opportunity to hear renowned journalists speak on contemporary issues. The series is funded by John E. "Jack" and Marguerite "Peggy" Holden. Jack Holden graduated from CU-Boulder's School of Journalism in 1948.
Holden worked at the Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald following graduation and acquired full ownership of the paper in the early 1950s. He sold the newspaper to the Lehman family in 1970 and developed a new career at the General Services Administration in Denver. He retired from the GSA in 1987.