Washington Post, New York Times Journalists to Speak at Westfield State on March 24

WESTFIELD — On Monday, March 24 at 5:30 p.m., Westfield State University will welcome Carl Hulse, New York Times chief Washington correspondent, and Paul Kane, Washington Post senior congressional correspondent, for a presentation titled “The Future of the Fourth Estate: A Report from Washington, D.C.”

The event will take place in Scanlon Banquet Hall and is open to the public. The conversation will be moderated by Christopher Gullen, associate professor and chairman of the Communication Department. Charles DiStefano, associate professor of the Political Science Department and director of the Master of Public Administration, Policy, and Civic Engagement program at Westfield State, will provide the introduction.

Kane has covered Congress since 2000, when he started at Roll Call with a beat focused on the Senate. He joined the Washington Post in 2007. He began writing a regular column, “@PKCapitol,” on Congress and its interactions with the White House in 2017. His columns have covered Washington’s response to the global pandemic, the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, two impeachments, and the Biden administration’s legislative agenda on Capitol Hill.

Hulse has been a full-time journalist since graduating from Illinois State University in 1976 with a degree in communications. His first newsroom job was with the News-Tribune in LaSalle, Ill. He joined the New York Times in 1986, first as a correspondent for papers around the South owned by the Times, and eventually went on to cover the Capitol and the White House. He serves in several management roles, including Washington editor. He also writes the New York Times column “On Washington” and is the author of Confirmation Bias, an account of the political battle for the Supreme Court and the federal courts.