A national reporter for the St. Petersburg Times will discuss diversity in news stories and newsrooms during the WVU Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalisms 2002 Journalism Week.

Stephen Buckley will address students on”Diversity that Works: All the Voices, All the Stories”from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, in Room 205 Martin Hall.

“Stephen Buckley is one of the most sensitive, patient and caring reporters covering national and international news today. He is the quintessential good reporteropen to every voice, every angle and every story,”said SOJ Dean Christine Martin.

Prior to going to the Times in July 2001, Buckley worked for The Washington Post for 12 years as a metro reporter and foreign correspondent.

As a foreign correspondent, he was based in Nairobi, Kenya, and covered East and Central Africa for 3years. He covered a range of stories, from the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide to the life of nomads in the Sahara.

After Africa, he was the Post’s Brazil correspondent, based in Rio de Janeiro, between mid-1999 to mid-2001.

He received the National Association of Black Journalists’prize for International Reporting, and was a finalist for the Livingston Award for International Reporting. He also was runner-up for the Novartis prize for International Reporting, given by Johns Hopkins University.

He began his career in journalism as a sports writing intern with the St. Petersburg Times. He also worked as an intern in the Detroit bureau of The Wall Street Journal and wrote editorials one summer for the Philadelphia Daily News.