Emmy award winning journalist to speak at Cleary March 3

Emmy award winner, author to speak about unseen influences in media at Livingston Economic Club Luncheon March 3

HOWELL - Emmy award winner and author Sharyl Attkisson will discuss unseen influences in the media at the next Livingston Economic Club Luncheon at Cleary University March 3.

Tickets are $45 per person, $120 for three tickets, or $300 for a table of eight. The public is welcome to purchase advance tickets at www.cleary.edu/tickets then click on the luncheon for the credit card purchase page. Sponsorships are available. Contact lec@cleary.edu.

Attkisson will speak from 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the Johnson Center (3725 Cleary Drive in Howell). She will sign copies of her book following the presentation. Lunch begins at noon.

Attkisson, an investigative journalist based in Washington D.C., wrote “Stonewalled: One Reporter’s Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington (Harper Collins, 2014). The book accuses CBS of protecting the Obama administration by not giving enough coverage to such stories as Obamacare and the 2012 Benghazi attack.

Attkisson has won two Emmy Awards. Her first came in 2002 for her investigative work about the American Red Cross. In 2009 she received her second Emmy for exclusive reports on the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and the bank bailout.

While part of the CBS News team, Attkisson served as the Capitol Hill correspondent and was one of a small number of female anchors covering the 2006 midterm election. She was twice part of a CBS News team to receive the RTNDA-Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence (2005 and 2008). She left CBS in 2014.

“We chose Ms. Attkisson for the March speaker to encourage our students and local community leaders to think critically about the information they encounter and rely on when making important decisions,” said Grace Farley, program director for the LEC.

“Students at Cleary University are taught to expand their research through primary sources such as first-hand accounts and secondary sources such as peer-reviewed articles. Our professors ask students to probe their research with questions like who said this, why did they say this, and who’s paying them to say it? Students need to study data and to apply it in management decisions, statistical analysis, and financial advising. It’s important that our students and leaders in our community learn to sift through manipulated information. Ms. Attkisson will shed light on this from a global and political perspective.”

About Livingston Economic Club (LEC): The Livingston Economic Club began in 2004 to enrich the Livingston County community by hosting speakers who can share a broad spectrum of social, political, intellectual, and cultural experiences.

About Cleary University: Cleary University is proud to sponsor the Livingston Economic Club Luncheon Series as a service to its students and our community.

Cleary University (cleary.edu) is an independent, not-for-profit, multi-campus, specialized business university, committed to the betterment of society through the success of its alumni and their employers; to operate as a role model of responsible business practice; to embrace quality management principles, innovation, and an attentive customer focus; and to aspire to a better future.

Cleary’s mission is to provide a practical, application-based education, which equips students to advance their careers.