Turpin Lecture in News Management features author Mark Ethridge

The School of Mass Communications is proud to welcome renowned author Mark Ethridge as a guest speaker for Mass Comm Week. Ethridge continues the school’s tradition with a Turpin Lecture in News Management. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, October 8 in Virginia Rooms A and B in the Student Commons at 7 p.m. Immediately following the lecture will be a signing of Ethridge's latest book, Grievances, and a reception in the Scott House.

Since 1990, Ethridge has been the president of Carolina Parenting, Inc. which publishes Charlotte Parent magazine and the parenting magazines in Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point and Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill.

The third-generation journalist directed The Charlotte Observer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigations of the textile industry and the PTL ("Praise The Lord") scandal involving Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. His work has appeared in newspapers and magazines coast-to-coast. Ethridge studied as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and was a member of Esquire magazine’s inaugural class of “People Under 40 Who Are Changing America.”

Recent on his list of accomplishments is his captivating novel, Grievances, in which Ethridge takes readers on a journey of the real-life breakneck world of newspaper reporting, from bylines to deadlines, and reluctant publishers to mysterious sources. Tennessee’s largest production company, Transcendent, has joined forces with the author to turn the novel into a feature film.