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CORVALLIS, Ore. - David Broder, an award-winning journalist with more than 50 years' experience covering Washington politics, will deliver this year's Gov. Tom McCall Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, April 19, at Oregon State University.

The lecture is set for 7:30 p.m. at LaSells Stewart Center and is free and open to the public.

A familiar face to many Americans as a regular commentator on NBC's "Meet the Press," Broder has been a national political correspondent for The Washington Post since 1966. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for distinguished commentary, and his twice-weekly column appears in more than 300 newspapers around the world.

Broder regularly earns high praise from his peers. U.S. News & World Report magazine has called him "probably the most influential political journalist in the country," and surveys in Washingtonian magazine have repeatedly found Broder to be the capitol's most respected columnist by both editorial-page editors and members of Congress.

In addition to his column, he has written or co-authored seven books, including "Behind the Front Page: A Candid Look at How the News is Made." Besides the Pulitzer, he has won the National Society of Newspaper Columnists Lifetime Achievement Award and is a member of the Sigma Delta Chi journalism society's Hall of Fame.

A native of Chicago, he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from the University of Chicago. After a two-year stint in the Army, he began his newspaper career, working for the Bloomington, Ill., Pantagraph, The New York Times, The Washington Star and Congressional Quarterly before joining the Post in 1966.

The Gov. Tom McCall Memorial Lecture, created in 1983 in honor of Oregon's legendary governor from 1967-75, brings leading public figures to OSU. Past McCall lecturers include Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head William Ruckleshaus, political columnist William Raspberry and Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski.