Journalist Pete Hamill to be keynote speaker

JEFFERSONVILLE, NY — Noted author and newspaperman Pete Hamill will deliver the keynote address for the 2009 Mike Levine Writers Workshop at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, May 1, at the Eddie Adams Barn.

Hamill, who was a personal friend of the late Mike Levine, will talk about Levine, the kind of journalism he excelled at and the state of journalism today. Hamill was a long time columnist at the New York Daily News and the New York Post, and served as editor-in-chief at both papers. He is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University

Levine was an award-winning journalist and columnist for more than 20 years at The Times Herald-Record in Middletown. He later became its editor, and died suddenly in 2007 at the age of 54. The fund and the workshop have been established in his name.

The event is free. Donations to the Mike Levine Journalism Education Fund will be accepted. For more information visit mikelevineworkshop.org.