say eL„,4,.c/zi,, All lVt1)5AUY News Release 41 . 11 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE REGINA, February 1, 1985 - Joe Schlesinger, CBC Television's news correspondent in Washington, will deliver the James M. Minifie Memorial Lecture at the University of Regina on Monday, February 25. His topic will be "Journalism: it's not minding falling off an elephant." Born in Vienna, Schlesinger lived in Czechoslovakia before and after World War II. He came to Canada in 1950. Prior to his CBC appointment in 1966, he worked as a reporter for the Vancouver Province, the Toronto Star and the London bureau of United Press International, as well as news editor and assistant managing editor of the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune. Schlesinger was executive producer of The National and, later, head of CBC Television News. He has served as the CBC's Far East correspondent based in Hong Kong, the European correspondent based in Paris and, since 1979, the familiar television journalist and commentator reporting from Washington. The James M. Minifie Lecture was established at the University of Regina in 1980. Born in Saskatchewan, Minifie was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and went on to become one of Canada's most respected journalists. The fifth annual Minifie Lecture will be given at 7:30 p.m. Monday, February 25, in the Education Auditorium at the University of Regina. The lecture is open to the public and admission is free. For further information and interview arrangements, contact: Lyn Goldman, coordinator of Public Relations Public Relations, University of Regina (306) 584-4403 CBC Television Biography JOE SCHLESINGER - Washington Correspondent CBC National Television News Joe Schlesinger was appointed CBC Television News correspondent in Washington in August of 1979. Born in Vienna in 1928, he lived in Czechoslovakia until the Second World War. He spent the war years in Britain but returned to Czechoslovakia in 1945. He began his journalistic career with the Associated Press in Prague. After the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia Schlesinger fled the country. Coming to Canada in 1950 Schlesinger attended the University of British Columbia and worked as a reporter first for the Vancouver Province then the Toronto Star. In 1960 he moved to Britain and joined the London bureau of United Press International. Two years later he switched to the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune in Paris. He was first news editor and later assistant managing editor of the newspaper. In 1966 he returned to Canada and, except for a brief stint as foreign editor of the Toronto Star in 1967, has been with the CBC ever since. Joe Schlesinger was executive producer of The National and later Head of CBC Television News. In 1970 he was appointed the CBC's Far East correspondent based in Hong Kong. In 1974 he was transferred to CBC's Paris bureau. As a correspondent he has covered wars, revolutions, elections, earthquakes and Papal elections. He covered the Vietnam war, the war between India and Pakistan, out of which Bangladesh was born, as well as battles in Laos and Lebanon. Schlesinger was one of the first reporters to be allowed into China after the Cultural Revolution. He covered the Portuguese revolution and the transformation of Spain from Franco's dictatorship to democracy. He was in Saint Peter's Square for the elections of Pope John Paul I and Pope John Paul II and has travelled with John Paul II through Poland and the United States. He travelled with Pierre Trudeau through China, Gerald Ford through Europe, Richard Nixon to Moscow, Jimmy Carter to the Middle East and with Ronald Reagan across the United States. Schlesinger covered the fall of the Shah and the rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. He also reported from Tehran on the imprisonment of the American hostages. Recently he has reported from Latin America and has covered Reagan's re-election. - 30 - JAL December 1984 CBC Television Department of Communications • Box 500, Station A • Toronto, Ontario M5W 1E6 .