USA Today's Tom Curley to Speak at York College
Posted March 6, 2003FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
York, Pennsylvania -- The person perhaps most responsible for creating the country's first national newspaper is coming to York College of Pennsylvania. Tom Curley, president and publisher of USA TODAY, will be giving a free lecture on March 20 at 7 p.m. in DeMeester Theater. Curley is the original news staffer on the project that created the newspaper. USA TODAY's circulation under Curley has grown to more than 2.3 million a day, the nation's largest.
The business has been in Mr. Curley's blood for years. He started his journalism career at age fifteen, covering high school basketball for his hometown Easton, PA, Express. He continued his work in college and then joined the Times-Union, in Rochester, NY, as night city editor. Curley moved up the newspaper ranks joining USA TODAY in 1979.
Tom Curley holds a B.A. degree in political science from LaSalle University and an M.B.A. in management from the Rochester Institute of Technology. For more information on his upcoming visit to York College, please call (717) 815-1274.
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