Journalist

Alicia C. Shepard

Formerly NPR

Alicia C. Shepard

Alicia Shepard (Washington). Alicia was a Media Fellow at Duke University in the fall of 2011. She ended her three-year term as NPR ombudsman in May. Previously, she spent four years teaching journalism and contributing to newspapers and magazines. She is author of Woodward & Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate, published in 2006, and co-author of Running Toward Danger: Stories Behind the Breaking News of 9/11, published in 2002. From 1993 to 2002, she was a principal contributor to the American Journalism Review. She has won the National Press Club’s top media criticism prize three times. She was a reporter with the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News from 1982 to 1987.

Walt Whitman High School:  March 23, 2010

Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School: Feb. 17, 2011

Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School: Feb. 22, 2012

Walt Whitman High School: April 12, 2012