UA Journalism Department,
American Indian Studies will host
Navajo Times publisher's visit
The University of Arizona Department of Journalism and the American Indian Studies
department will welcome to campus March 11-12 the publisher of the Navajo Times and
an advocate for Freedom of the Press.
Tom Arviso Jr., a Navajo originally from Window Rock, Ariz., is the chief executive
officer of the Navajo Times Publishing Company, Inc. and the publisher of the Navajo
Times newspaper.
Arviso will speak to two UA journalism classes on Tuesday, March 11, and be honored
at a reception that afternoon in the Marshall Building by student members of the
Native American Journalists Association. On Wednesday, March 12, Arviso will speak
at a colloquium sponsored by the American Indian Studies Program.
He is a former board vice president and treasurer of the Native American Journalists
Association's Board of Directors and is currently a member of the Arizona Newspapers
Association's Board of Directors. In 1997, NAJA awarded Arviso its prestigious
"Wassaja Award" for "extraordinary service to Native journalism."
In 1998 the Arizona Newspapers Association honored Arviso with the "Freedom of
Information Award." Arviso received a John S. Knight Fellowship in Journalism in
2000-2001 and studied newspaper management at Stanford University in Palo Alto,
Calif. He is the first Native American to have been selected for a Knight Fellowship.
Schedule:
Tuesday, March 11
-- 12:30-1:45 p.m., lecture in "Ethics and the News Media" class, Integrated Learning
Center Room 130. Open to journalism students and faculty. Seating is limited.
-- 2-3:15 p.m., lecture in "Law of the Press" class, Chavez Building Room 111. Open to
journalism students and faculty. Seating is limited.
-- 5-6:15 p.m., reception hosted by the UA chapter of the Native American Journalists
Association, Marshall Building Room 312. Open to all.
Wednesday, March 12
-- noon, colloquium hosted by the American Indian Studies Program, Harvill Building Room 313.
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