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EMMY AWARD WINNING JOURNALIST TO SPEAK AT OWU COMMENCEMENT
DELAWARE, OHIO -- Mention journalist Michel McQueen's name to most ABC network news viewers of " Day One," and "Nightline," and comments involving her stellar reporting will surface. The Emmy award- winning McQueen will visit Ohio Wesleyan's campus on Sunday, May 9, as Commencement speaker for the University's 155th graduation ceremony.
Working closely with OWU President Tom Courtice on the speaker's selection, Katie Crates, Senior Class President, looks forward to McQueen's visit.
"I am excited because a professional journalist of Ms. McQueen's calibre will be our Commencement speaker," said Crates, also emphasizing that it will be refreshing to have a female speaker be part of an Ohio Wesleyan Commencement.
"We are pleased to welcome Michel McQueen to the OWU campus," agreed President Courtice. "Her professional accomplishments springboarding from a liberal arts educational background will be a source of inspiration for our graduates."
Michel McQueen's impressive print and broadcast portfolio includes more than ten years of experience covering state and local politics for the Washington Post and national politics and policy for the Wall Street Journal, where she was White House Correspondent. She has been a regular panelist on the PBS show, "Washington Week in Review."
McQueen, a graduate cum laude of Radcliffe College at Harvard, joined ABC News in September 1992, where she now is a correspondent for "Nightline," one of the nation's premier public affairs shows. She has covered a wide range of stories from government budget battles to personal contact scandals in the military to the controversy over the honorary Oscar awarded recently to director Elia Kazan. McQueen has contributed a number of reports to the acclaimed series "America in Black and White," receiving an Emmy nomination and special notice in TV Guide's "Cheers" column for a story on racial stereotyping in TV news.
Contributing to a wide range of ABC programs and specials, McQueen's reports have included an hour-long documentary on the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas controversy for ABC's "Turning Point," a critically acclaimed special on AIDS, and "Cedric's Story," concerning the struggle of being a brilliant student in an inner-city school.
Prior to joining "Nightline," McQueen reported for the ABC news magazine program, "Day One," at which she reported on the international campaign to ban the use of land mines. She won an Emmy for this story.
McQueen's other noteworthy honors include: the 1992 Candace Award for Communications from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women; the 1995 Joan Barone Award for Excellence in Washington based National Affairs/Public Policy Broadcasting given by the Radio and Television Correspondent's Association; and, a recent citation from Columbia University's graduate school of journalism as being among the country's best in covering racial and ethnic issues.
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