Listen to excerpts from a talk given in May by Leonard Pitts Jr., the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the Miami Herald and author of the book Becoming Dad:  Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood. Pitts was the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication’s 2007 Ruhl Lecturer.

Established in 1974 in honor of one of Oregon’s respected newspaper journalists Robert W. Ruhl, the Ruhl Symposium brings a distinguished American journalist to the SOJC to deliver a public lecture on an issue of significance for contemporary journalism.