Gail Collins, the editorial page editor of The New York Times, will present the 2002 Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture at Cornell Tuesday, Oct. 29, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. The lecture, titled "How Women Got Their Voice," is free and open to the public.
Before reaching her current position with The New York Times, Collins was a columnist for The Times' op-ed page from 1999 to 2001 and a member of The Times editorial board. Before joining The Times, she had been a columnist at New York Newsday and at the New York Daily News.
In the 1970s, Collins was a freelance writer; a senior editor for Connecticut Magazine; a regular contributor to The Times; a weekly columnist for the Connecticut Business Journal; host of a public affairs program for Connecticut Public Television; and an instructor in journalism at Southern Connecticut State College. From 1972 to 1977, she founded and operated the Connecticut State News Bureau.
The co-author of The Millennium Book and Scorpion Tongues, Collins is writing a history of American women.
The Kops Freedom of the Press Fellowship Program was established in 1990 by Daniel W. Kops, a 1939 graduate of Cornell and a former editor of the Cornell Daily Sun, to bring distinguished speakers to Ithaca and Cornell, annually, to discuss issues relating to freedom of the press.
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