Two distinguished journalists to visit UW-Madison

An Emmy-winning network-news veteran who now runs a public-policy center on state government and an award-winning business reporter and editor will give public lectures as part of the Writer in Residence Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Ed Fouhy, executive director of the Pew Center on the States, will be on campus Oct. 27-31 as the Public Affairs Writer in Residence. He will make a presentation titled “The Evolution of War Reporting” on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 3 p.m. in the School of Journalism’s Nafziger Room, located on the 5th floor of Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave. The talk is part of this year’s Mass Communications Research Center Colloquium series.

Brian Dumaine, editorial director for Fortune Small Business magazine, will visit campus the following week, Nov. 3-7, as the Business Writer in Residence. Dumaine’s talk, titled “Inside the Mind of the Entrepreneur,” is scheduled for 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 4, in 3180 Grainger Hall, 975 University Ave.

Both events are free and open to the public.

Fouhy is a career journalist who worked as a reporter, news producer and news executive for more than 30 years, beginning in Boston as a reporter covering the state capital. He joined CBS News in 1966, and went to Saigon as bureau chief at the height of the war. He later became Los Angeles bureau chief, and then senior Washington producer of the “CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite” during the Watergate years. Later he became CBS News Washington bureau chief and subsequently CBS News vice president and news director, directing the network’s worldwide news bureaus and correspondents, as well as supervising all of CBS’s hard-news broadcasts.

Fouhy later served as ABC News vice president and Washington bureau chief, and as executive producer for prime-time news-magazine programs at NBC News.

He has won five national Emmy Awards for the hard news and magazine programs he has produced. He was also a recipient of the Drew Pearson Award for investigative reporting early in his career.

As executive director of the Pew Center on the States, Fouhy oversees an online news and policy resource that tracks and reports on innovative public policy at the state level. He is executive editor of Stateline.org, the daily news Web site published by the center.

Before coming to Fortune Small Business, Dumaine worked at Fortune for 20 years. He was an assistant managing editor and international editor, in charge of the magazine’s Asian and European editions. In addition to directing and editing Fortune’s international coverage, Dumaine, who has won numerous journalism awards, has written more than 100 feature stories for Fortune, including cover stories such as “America’s Toughest Bosses,” “The Innovation Gap,” and “America’s Smartest Young Entrepreneurs.” Throughout his career, he has also produced investigative pieces as well as articles on marketing, investing, technology and corporate crime.

As editorial director of FSB, Brian Dumaine writes and edits stories about the world of the entrepreneur and helps guide the magazine’s coverage of small, fast-growing businesses.

The Writer in Residence Program is sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and University Communications, with support from the UW Foundation. The public affairs program is co-sponsored by the LaFollette School of Public Affairs and the business program is co-sponsored by the School of Business.

In addition to the public talks, during their visits both journalists will speak to journalism, political science and business classes, consult with individual students, faculty and staff, and meet with local journalists.