Author Laurel Leff to Visit Ohio Dominican to Discuss Media Coverage of Holocaust

April 10, 2006

COLUMBUS, OH – Ohio Dominican University will present “How the American Press Buried News of the Holocaust” featuring former Wall Street Journal reporter Laurel Leff on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. in the Colonial Room of Sansbury Hall on ODU’s main campus, 1216 Sunbury Road.

Leff is an associate professor of Journalism at Northeastern University. Prior to teaching, she was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and The Miami Herald and an editor with American Lawyer Media Inc. and The Hartford Courant. She teaches undergraduate courses in News Writing, Media Law, Magazine Writing and Legal Reporting, and graduate courses in Reporting, Nonfiction Writing and the First Amendment.

Her first book, Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper, published in March 2005, provides a comprehensive account of how The New York Times failed in its coverage of the fate of European Jews from 1939-1945. It examines how the decisions made at the newspaper ultimately resulted in the minimizing and misunderstanding of modern history's worst genocide. She has spoken frequently on the topic at academic conferences and to the public.

Leff has a master's degree in the study of law from Yale University and a master's in communications from the University of Miami. She received an A.B. from Princeton University with a major in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Admission to the program is free and registration is not required. For more information, please contact ODU’s office of Academic Affairs at 251-4730. Free parking is available in the Visitor’s Lot west of Sunbury Road.