WHQR's Annual Fundraising Luncheon Featuring Don Gonyea

WHQR's Annual Fundraising Luncheon featuring NPR's Don Gonyea, National Political Correspondent

Wednesday, April 13th from 12:00 noon – 1:30 pm

The Grand Ballroom at the Wilmington Hilton Riverside

In this election year, a super star political correspondent as the guest for the WHQR Fundraising Luncheon was a must – and we found the best, Don Gonyea. Heard currently on NPR and WHQR, Gonyea has enormous experience covering politics and presidents.

A native of Monroe, Michigan, Gonyea is an honors graduate of Michigan State University. In 1986, Gonyea got his start at NPR reporting from Detroit on labor unions and the automobile industry. Over the years Gonyea has contributed to PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, the BBC, CBC, AP Radio, and the Columbia Journalism Review. He periodically teaches college journalism courses. He has won numerous national and state awards for his reporting. He was part of the team that earned NPR a 2000 George Foster Peabody Award for the All Things Considered series "Lost & Found Sound."

At the same time George W. Bush moved into the White House in 2001, Gonyea started as NPR's White House Correspondent. He was at the White House on the morning of September 11, 2001, providing live reports following the evacuation of the building.

In 2008, Gonyea was the lead reporter covering the entire Obama presidential campaign for NPR, from the Iowa caucuses to victory night in Chicago. He continued covering the White House and President Barack Obama until spring 2010, when he moved into his current position. Gonyea has filed stories from around the globe, including Moscow, Beijing, London, Islamabad, Doha, Budapest, Seoul, San Salvador, and Hanoi.

Although Don Gonyea is a NPR National Political Correspondent based in Washington, D.C., he spends much of his time traveling throughout the United States covering campaigns, elections, and the political climate throughout the country. His reports can be heard on all NPR programs and at NPR.org.

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