NPR Editor Comes to UA to Talk Politics

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Ken Rudin, political editor for National Public Radio, will speak about the political landscape and upcoming national elections at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, in 205 Gorgas Library on The University of Alabama campus.

The talk is free and open to the public.

Rudin’s talk is titled “Looking Forward to 2012.” UA’s Honors College and Housing and Residential Life are sponsoring the talk.

Rudin contributes to NPR as the voice of the “Political Junkie” segment on “Talk of the Nation” every Wednesday.

From 1983 through 1991, Rudin covered politics and Capitol Hill for ABC News. He joined NPR in 1991 as its first political editor. He later was managing editor of the daily political newsletter Hotline before returning to NPR in 1998. He also wrote the “Political Graffiti” column for The Hill, a newspaper covering Capitol Hill.

A political junkie for many decades, Rudin has one of the most extensive collections of campaign buttons in the country, a collection that now surpasses 70,000 items, according to NPR. Rudin is a graduate of Pace University in New York.

For more information, contact Marion Steinfels at marionsteinfels@gmail.com. This lecture is the final event of the 2010-11 Faculty in Residence Series, which brings speakers, artists and scholars from across the disciplines to The University of Alabama.