NBC News correspondent to lecture at Shenango

STAFF REPORT

SHARON, Pa. — Lisa Myers, senior investigative correspondent for NBC News, will speak at this year’s Greenberger Family Memorial Lecture at Penn State Shenango at 7 p.m. April 15 in the campus auditorium, 147 Shenango Ave.

The lecture, “An Inside View of Washington: Politics and Personalities in the Age of Obama,” is free and open to the public with general admission seating. Doors open at 6 p.m.

Myers is an Emmy-award-winning political analyst whose groundbreaking reports on the war on terror, politics, Iraq, political and corporate scandals, and the Pentagon’s sometimes broken military procurement system have triggered official probes and won critical acclaim.

In 2007, Myers and her team received some of the most prestigious awards in journalism for their multipart investigation exposing efforts by the U.S. Army to scuttle a promising technology, called “Trophy,” which was designed to protect soldiers from rocket-propelled grenades.

The series won the George Polk Award for investigative reporting, the Joan Barone Award for Washington reporting, a Business Emmy and a Gerald Loeb Award.

Myers’ reports on the bungling, incompetence and waste at all levels of government in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were a key component of NBC’s coverage, which was recognized with prestigious Peabody and DuPont awards.

She and her team also won a Business Emmy for “Congress’ Private Air Force,” exposing how corporations curry favor with politicians by providing access to corporate jets.

Myers made headlines in 2004 when, for the first time, she aired a top-secret CIA surveillance tape of Osama bin Laden shot before 9/11.

Myers received a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1973.