UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A Penn State graduate who has crafted an accomplished and long-lasting career with the Associated Press will present the annual Oweida Lecture in Journalism Ethics April 16 on the University Park campus.
Paula Froke, editor of "The Associated Press Stylebook" and a manager with AP’s standards team, will be the featured guest for the free public lecture that begins at 6 p.m. in Freeman Auditorium of the HUB-Robeson Center.
Froke started her 40-year career with the AP the summer after her sophomore year at Penn State, as a Dow Jones News Fund intern on the AP's main editing desk in New York. Her AP career has included jobs as news editor in Minnesota and Michigan; deputy national editor at headquarters in New York; assistant managing editor on the AP’s Nerve Center; AP embedded editor at MSN News; and executive director of Associated Press Media Editors. She was part of AP’s editing crew at the Atlanta, Nagano, Sydney and Vancouver Olympics.
Froke earned her bachelor’s degree in communications studies from the University in 1984. She was honored with the 2011 Alumni Achievement Award from the Alumni Society Board of the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications.
A State College native, Froke served as editor of the Daily Collegian in 1981-82 and went on to earn a varsity letter with Penn State’s track team. These days, in her spare time, she competes in track cycling at the master’s national level and rides gravel bikes with her husband.
The Dr. N.N. Oweida Lecture in Journalism Ethics is supported by an endowment from Margaret L. Oweida in memory of her husband, the late Dr. N.N. Oweida, a surgeon from New Kensington, Pennsylvania.