ALBANY - Award-winning television journalist Garrick Utley will lecture on Vietnam to Iraq: Reporting Goes High Tech on Tuesday, October 28 at 7:00 PM in The Egg at the Empire State Plaza. The event is free and open to the public. The lecture is sponsored by the Archives Partnership Trust as part of the "Archives at 25" Lecture series celebrating the 25th anniversary of the New York State Archives.
Focusing on the period from the Vietnam War to the current Iraq conflict, Utley will discuss the dramatic changes in how the media covers events and the implications of those changes. He will examine the differences between being "embedded" in Vietnam and Iraq, the tremendous volume of information available to us and what it means for history, and our ability to access news and information.
A familiar face to millions of television viewers, Garrick Utley's award-winning journalism career spans 40 years as a correspondent for NBC, ABC, and CNN. Beginning in 1963, he spent 30 years covering international affairs for NBC - including the Vietnam War - and reporting from more than 70 countries. He is also the author of You Should Have Been Here Yesterday, A Life in Television News, which will be available for purchase before and after the lecture.
Utley started with NBC News in 1963 and was based in the network's Brussels bureau. The following year, he was assigned to the Saigon Bureau, where he reported on the Vietnam War. In 1966, Utley was transferred to New York to anchor Vietnam Weekly Review and report on the war for Today. From 1966-1971, he was based in several NBC international bureaus and, in 1973, became the network's London-based chief European correspondent.
From 1982-1987, Utley served as NBC's chief foreign correspondent. During this
time period, he received some of journalism's most prestigious awards including
the Edward R. Murrow award in 1984 for his reporting on Soviet-American relations
and the George Foster Peabody award in 1986 for Vietnam: Ten Years Later.
While at NBC, Utley also moderated Meet the Press, and anchored the weekend
news, Sunday Today, First Tuesday, and NBC Magazine. He later served as ABC
News' chief foreign correspondent for 3 years and joined CNN's New York Bureau
in 1997.
Utley is a native of Chicago. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Carleton College in Minnesota. After serving in the U.S. Army, he spent a year studying Eastern European affairs at the Free University of West Berlin.
The Archives Partnership Trust is a not-for-profit organization established by the State Legislature in 1992 to support the educational initiatives, public programming, conservation efforts, and publications of the State Archives. Garrick Utley's lecture is made possible by the following contributors to the Trust:
o Niagara Mohawk, a National Grid Company
o Chase Manhattan Bank
o New York United Teachers, NYSUT
o Albany Times Union
o WMHT
o WAMC
o WNYT NewsChannel 13
The New York State Archives is celebrating twenty-five years of preserving and making accessible the essential recorded evidence - past and present - of New York's governments, organizations, peoples and events. At its Albany facility, the Archives cares for more than 140 million archival records of New York State government dating from the 1630s to the present. As a program of the State Education Department, the New York State Archives provides services to assist 4,300 local governments and 3,000 community organizations care for their records.
For more information about the Utley lecture, contact the Archives Partnership
Trust at (518) 486-9349 or email at aptrust@mail.nysed.gov