Wall Street Journal Editor Robert Bartley Speaks Thursday

September 23, 2002

September 23, 2002, Greencastle, Ind. - Robert Bartley, editor of the Wall Street Journal, who has been called the most influential editorial writer in America, will speak this Thursday, September 26, 2002, on the DePauw University campus. The Pulitzer Prize-winner's speech, "Three Decades of Progress, Mostly," will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Meharry Hall of historic East College. The event, presented by DePauw's Media Fellows Program, is free and open to the public.

Bartley's primary responsibility as editor and vice president of the Wall Street Journal is the editorial page, which he's been directing since 1972. He writes the "Thinking Things Over" column, appearing each Monday on the Journal's opinion pages, and contributes to OpinionJournal.com, the newspaper's free editorial Web site. Mr. Bartley participates with other vice presidents in the business management of the Journal and its parent, Dow Jones & Company. He joined the Journal in 1962 and served as a staff reporter in Chicago and Philadelphia before moving to New York. Bartley won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1980, and also received a Gerald Loeb Award and a Citation for Excellence from the Overseas Press Club of America. He is the author of The Seven Fat Years: And How To Do It Again, a book that examined the economic policies of the Reagan administration.

Robert Bartley earned his master's degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin and has received honorary degrees from Macalester College, Babson College and Adelphi University.

A number of DePauw University alumni have contributed to the rich history of the Wall Street Journal. Bernard Kilgore (seen at left), the former managing editor of the Journal and a 1929 graduate of DePauw, was named "Business Journalist of the Century." His legacy continues through the Kilgore Fund, which brings experienced professional journalists to campus each semester to work with students and critique the award-winning student newspaper, The DePauw. Kenneth C. Hogate, a 1918 graduate of DePauw, was named managing editor of the Wall Street Journal at age 26, and introduced stock-market quotes to the paper. He rose to become chairman of the board of Dow Jones & Company. James B. Stewart '73 won a Pulitzer Prize as the Journal's front page editor, and has authored the best-selling books Den of Thieves, Blood Sport, Blind Eye and the newly published Heart of a Soldier: A Story of Love, Heroism, and September 11th (read more here). Other DePauw alumni who've worked on the Wall Street Journal include: Buren McCormack '30, managing editor; Robert L. Bottorff '29, executive editor; Theodore E. Calles '30, advertising director; and Aaron Lucchetti '96, staff writer.

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