On Tuesday, April 28, American reporter Mr. Doug Pardue was invited to give a speech to us at the NTU Law School. Mr. Pardue wrote a series of report “Till Death Do Us Part” with other reporters from “The Post and Courier” newspaper office. “Till Death Do Us Part” is related to domestic violence, which had won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal Award for Public Service.

There were two speeches given by Mr. Pardue with different themes. The first theme was “Journalism and the American Criminal Justice System”, which was hosted by our visiting professor Samuel Wilson and joined by Charles Wharton. Mr. Pardue discussed about how reporter can use his reports to evoke the social consciousness when the law enforcement officers and the crime justice system failed to function properly on domestic violence problems.

The other speech was held jointly with The Graduate Institute of Journalism and was hosted by their chairman Ms. Hung. The theme was called “911, Terrorism, War and a Journalist’s Role in Making a Difference”. Mr. Pardue shared how the reports related to 911 attacks put emphasis on “human” and bring out the true meaning behind this tragedy. In addition, there were Q&A session and discussions after the both speeches which generated great feedback.