Former workshop student delivers King Lecture

Joe Ruiz, associate producer for news at the Seattle Times website, winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News, will deliver the 33rd Edith Fox King journalism Lecture AT 9:30 A.M. Thursday in Room 101 of Longwith Radio, Television and Film Building.

The lecture, sponsored by the journalism program and the campus chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, honors an award winner and enriches journalism students’ education. The even is free and open to the public.

Story by Zahra Farah in The Ranger

A football injury directed him toward journalism and ultimately led to his participating in the Urban Journalism Workshop at San Antonio College in 1997 and free-lance sports writing for the San Antonio Express-News.

He also spent two years as website news editor for KSAT-TV before joining the Seattle Times.