National Public Radio correspondent Howard Berkes began his radio career at KLCC in Eugene, and he will be at the UO Knight Law Center at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12.

Berkes will present “Typewriter to Twitter — An NPR Reporter’s Journey,” focusing on new and old media and his career as a radio journalist. The event, in Room 175, is free and open to the public.

The talk is sponsored by the UO School of Journalism and Communication, the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics and radio station KLCC.

As an investigative reporter for NPR, Berkes’ multipart series based on a 2010 coal mine explosion in West Virginia exposed the dangers of coal miner working conditions and their risk of developing black lung disease. Berkes also covered the Mount Saint Helens eruption in 1980.

Berkes was a Neiman Foundation Fellow at Harvard in 1997, and he has served as a guest faculty member at the Poynter Institute.

―By Corinne Boyer, Public Affairs Communications intern