Award-winning investigative reporter Linn Washington will speak on”The”Investigative Journalist’s Role in Uncovering Injustice,”Monday, Jan. 22, at 7 p.m. in the West Virginia University Mountainlair Blue Ballroom. The public is invited to attend.

Washington, a graduate of Temple University and Yale Law School, has reported extensively on police brutality, including the well-known story of death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal. Washington will discuss the role investigative reporting has played in the movement to obtain a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal, who supporters say was falsely accused of killing a police officer.

He also teaches journalism at Temple University and is the author of Black Judges on Justice (New Press -1995). In addition to writing Race Matters , a column for the Philadelphia Tribune , Washington reports for three national news organizations.

Washington’s visit to WVU is sponsored by the P.I. Reed School of Journalism Broadcast Club and Black Media Club.

For more information contact Professor Judy Darling, 293-3505, ext. 5410.