John Harwood, chief Washington correspondent for CNBC and a political writer for the New York Times, will give a public lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 7, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. titled “Fragmented Politics, Fragmented Media: Challenges to American Journalism.”

The lecture, sponsored by the Laird B. Anderson and Florence H. Ashby Lectureship on Public Policy Journalism, will be delivered in The Pepper Center’s Broad Auditorium, located at 636 W. Call St. on The Florida State University campus. Parking is available at no charge on the top level of the parking garage
at the corner of Call and Macomb streets.

Harwood also provides political analysis on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and oversees the Wall Street Journal/NBC News Poll. Following his graduation from Duke University in 1978, Harwood joined the St. Petersburg Times, now the Tampa Bay Times, where he reported on police, investigative projects, local government and politics. Later he became the paper’s state capital correspondent in Tallahassee.

In 1991, he joined The Wall Street Journal as White House correspondent, covering the George H. W. Bush administration and, subsequently, Congress. In 1997, he became political editor for the Journal.