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The annual Ann Devroy Memorial Forum will take place tonight on the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire campus in Schofield Auditorium at 8 p.m. The 2011 speaker is E.J. Dionne Jr., a columnist for The Washington Post. His speech will focus on the media and journalism, and what the future looks like for these ever-so-changing fields.

Dionne is not only a veteran journalist, but also a professor at Georgetown University and a critically acclaimed author of four books.

In addition to Dionne’s presentation, a UW-Eau Claire student will receive the 2011 Ann Devroy Fellowship which awards the student a three-week residency at The Washington Post and a paid summer internship at a Wisconsin daily newspaper.  

Mara Pearson, an Organizational Communication major at UW-Eau Claire, says that she will be attending the event tonight and is excited to hear what Dionne has to say about the journalism field.

"I think that the topic will be informative and it will be good to hear how the changing journalism field will affect me as a communication major," she said. "Students and others outside of the journalism field will also be interested in the topic, mainly because the media affects so many different parts of our society."

The Devroy Forum is dedicated to the late Ann Devroy, who passed away from cancer in 1997.  Devroy, a UW-Eau Claire alumna and a former Washington Post journalist, left a legacy of excellent journalistic work, which the Forum is meant to recognize.