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DESCRIPTION:Join the audience for conversation with former CEO of the Los A
 ngeles Times and CNN Tom Johnson and Red and Black Executive Director Char
 lotte Varnum\, as they discuss Johnson’s new book Driven: A Life in Publ
 ic Service and Journalism from LBJ to CNN. The talk will begin with an int
 roduction from University Librarian and Associate Provost Dr. Toby Graham 
 at 4 p.m. A reception and a book signing with Johnson will follow the disc
 ussion. \n\nDriven brings a seasoned perspective to today’s conversati
 ons about government\, media\, and the future of truth in the form of a de
 eply personal and long-awaited autobiography by Tom Johnson\, an award-win
 ning journalist who helped shape the twenty-four-hour news media as we kno
 w it. Johnson’s storied career in public service and journalism that beg
 an as a reporter at the Macon Telegraph in Georgia spans the Lyndon B.
  Johnson administration\, where he was eyewitness to painful negotiations 
 on Vietnam and notified the president that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had 
 been assassinated\, through the executive leadership of the LA Times a
 nd\, finally\, Ted Turner’s upstart CNN in Atlanta. \n\nFrom his perspec
 tive “inside the room\,” Johnson provides eyewitness accounts of LBJ
 ’s triumphs and failings as well as an on-the-ground view of the magnifi
 cent achievements and significant shortfalls of late twentieth-century Ame
 rican journalism. Johnson is also candid about his lifelong struggle with 
 depression and has actively worked in retirement as a leader in mental hea
 lth\, cancer research\, Alzheimer’s\, and addiction treatment and recove
 ry. With more than eight decades behind him\, Driven is not just Johns
 on’s look at the past but a chance for his story to offer guidance about
  finding balance in an uncertain future. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by
  the University of Georgia Press\, the Grady College of Journalism and Mas
 s Communication\, the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts\, the Richard B
 . Russell Library for Political Research and Studies\, and The Red and Bla
 ck. \n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Parking is available in
  the Hull Street Deck directly across from the Special Collections Librari
 es building. Requests for accommodations should be made as soon as possibl
 e prior to the scheduled event. For further information regarding this eve
 nt or to submit accessibility requests for it\, please contact Candice Law
 rence at Candice.Lawrence@uga.edu.\n\nThis lecture is part of the Universi
 ty's 2025 Fall Signature Lecture Series.
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LOCATION:Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries\, 271
SUMMARY:Book Discussion with Tom Johnson — Driven: A Life in Public Servi
 ce and Journalism from LBJ to CNN
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