President's Lecture Series Welcomes Tamron Hall
Award-winning journalist, Tamron Hall, is the Women's Center Speaker for the next President's Lecture Series
By Betsy Hnath
Old Dominion University will host Tamron Hall, the award-winning journalist and host of "Deadline: Crime with Tamron Hall," as the Women's Center Speaker for the next installment of the President's Lecture Series.
The event will be held March 15 at 7 p.m. in the Ted Constant Convocation Center's Big Blue Room.
The President's Lecture Series serves as a marketplace for ideas, featuring fascinating personalities who share their knowledge, experience, opinions and accomplishments. Discussing timely topics, the series puts diversity first, showcasing authors, educators, business innovators and political figures. The lectures are free and open to the public.
Hall has hosted "Deadline: Crime with Tamron Hall" on Investigation Discovery since 2013. She also led a "Guns on Campus: Tamron Hall Investigates" special in which she interviewed two survivors with different viewpoints in the debate on campus safety.
Before she joined Investigation Discovery, Hall co-hosted the third hour of NBC News' "TODAY" show and anchored "MSNBC Live with Tamron Hall."
She received the 2015 Edward R. Murrow Award for Reporting: Hard News in Network Television for her segment on domestic violence in TODAY's "Shine A Light" series.
Hall also served as a correspondent for the NBC News special, "The Inauguration of Barack Obama," which won an Emmy in 2010 for outstanding live coverage.
Previously, Hall spent 10 years at WFLD TV in Chicago where she held a number of positions, including general assignment reporter, consumer reporter and host of the three-hour "Fox News in the Morning" program. She also anchored the station's weekday morning show and served as a noon anchor. At WFLD, she was nominated for an Emmy for her consumer segment, "The Bottom Line."
Hall started her broadcasting career as a general assignment reporter at KBTX in Bryan, Texas, and KTVT in Dallas.
She received Temple University's Lew Klein Alumni in the Media award in 2010 and was appointed to Temple's Board of Trustees in 2015. Hall is active with several charitable organizations that address homelessness, illiteracy and domestic abuse.
All lectures are free and open to the public. Seating is limited, guests are encouraged to RSVP.
