Pulitzer Prize Winner to Give Ashbrook Center Lecture

4/2/13 ASHLAND, Ohio – Michael Ramirez, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and the senior editor and the editorial cartoonist for Investor’s Business Daily, will speak at the Ashbrook Center’s Major Issues Lecture Series on April 18 at noon in Myers Convocation Center on the Ashland University campus. Ramirez will speak on the topic “Editorial Cartooning and the State of Journalism in a New World Order.”

Tickets for this luncheon/lecture event are $20 per person or a table of eight for $160. For more information or to purchase tickets, contact Lisa Ormiston at (419) 289-5429 or lormiston@ashbrook.org or order online at www.ashbrook.org.

Ramirez combines an encyclopedic knowledge of the news with a captivating drawing style to create consistently outstanding cartoons.

“Editorial cartoons should be smart and substantive, provocative and informative. They should stir passions and deep emotions,” Ramirez said. “Editorial cartoons should be the catalyst for thought and frankly speaking, if you can make politicians think, that is an accomplishment itself.”

A regular contributor to USA Today and The Weekly Standard Magazine and a regular guest on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS Television, Ramirez’s work is seen world-wide with a distribution of over 450 newspapers and magazines through Creators Syndicate.

He has been on CNN, CNN International, Fox News Sunday, America Live with Megyn Kelly, Lou Dobbs Tonight on the Fox Business Network, BBC Television, and BBC Radio and is a highly acclaimed international speaker. His work is reprinted in such publications as The New York Times, the New York Post, the Washington Post, Time Magazine, and US News and World Report.

His cartoons also appear daily on the pages of Investor’s Business Daily at investors.com/cartoons

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