March 19, 1998 Contact Gaye Vandermyn (541) 346-3133 EUGENE--Randall Rothenberg, author, newspaper reporter and magazine journalist, will be presenting the 1998 Johnston lecture at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, at Beall Concert Hall, 961 E. 18th Ave., on the University of Oregon campus. Rothenberg has covered the relationship between culture, technology and business for 20 years. He has been a writer, editor and contributor for a number of national magazines, including Wired, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Condé Nast Traveler and Science Digest. In 1977, while he served as senior writer, columnist and editorial writer for Esquire Magazine, Rothenberg's December 1996 story, "The Age of Spin," received the Society of Professional Journalists' Deadline Club Award for best magazine feature writing of the year. "Few journalists in this country have the breadth of experience that Randall Rothenberg has," said Tim Gleason, dean of the School of Journalism and Communications. "His accomplishments range from editor of popular magazines to book editor to web page publishing. He is truly an extraordinary man." "It's valuable to bring people with Rothenberg's experience to this campus. We are able to do this due to the generosity of Laurie Johnston Woolley," Gleason said. The Johnston Lecture, presented by the UO School of Journalism and Communications since 1984, was established by an endowment of the Richard W. Johnston Memorial Project. It honors the memory and work of Johnston, a depression-era UO journalism student who later became a distinguished World War II correspondent, a writer for Time and Life magazines and the founding editor of Sports Illustrated magazine. Johnston died in 1981. -30- #P-1140/Local/js