NORMAN, Okla. (10:16 p.m.) -- Thomas L. Friedman, author and foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times, will be awarded the Gaylord Prize for Excellence in Journalism and Mass Communication on Monday, Dec. 7 at the Sheraton Oklahoma City Hotel in the Century Ballroom.
Friedman will be the second person awarded the Gaylord Prize, which honors nationally-recognized journalist or mass communication professionals. Jim Lehrer, executive editor and anchor for PBS’s “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” received the inaugural prize in 2008.
Friedman, who has written five books, has been writing the foreign affairs column for theNew York Times since 1995. Friedman is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner.
Monday's award ceremony and luncheon will begin at 11:30 a.m. Friedman will have a discussion with OU students at 4:30 p.m. in the Sandy Bell Gallery in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.
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