Chandigarh,30 Apr:Mr. James Richard Dickenson, senior journalist and U.S. Speaker will participate in a Lecture and Interaction Session organized by Chandigarh Press Club in collaboration with U.S. Embassy, New Delhi on Friday, May 2, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. at Press Club premises.
For nearly 30 years James R. Dickenson has been a political reporter, editor, and columnist for the Washington Post, The Washington Star, The National Observer, and United Press International. He has covered every presidential campaign from 1964 to 1988 and the White Houses of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan. He also has covered the Senate and the House of Representatives and their major election campaigns. He will be talking on the role of the media in the U.S. presidential elections.