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# SMC a new ‘hot spot’
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/smc-a-new-hot-spot/
- Published: 2004-05-07T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:17:05.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Pico, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

An award-winning Los Angeles Times journalist will speak next week in Santa Monica.

The free lecture “Hot Topics & Cool Heads” by Patt Morrison will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, May 14 in the Santa Monica College art lecture Hall, 1900 Pico Blvd.

It’s SMC’s annual “Rocky Young Lecture,” named after a long-time former SMC professor and administrator who is currently senior vice chancellor at the Los Angeles Community College District.

Morrison is a writer and columnist for the Times — where her work has spanned topics from national political profiles to the O.J. Simpson case, the LA riots and the Persian Gulf War. She is a member of two Times’ reporting teams that won Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of the 1992 riots and 1994 earthquake.

She was host and consulting producer of the nationally syndicated “The Book Show with Patt Morrison,” produced by PBS station KCET, and she has won six Emmys and four Golden Mike awards — as founding host and commentator on “Life & Times Tonight,” the nightly news and current affairs program on KCET.

Since 1994, her commentaries have been heard on NPR’s “Morning Edition.” She also contributes commentaries to KQED radio’s “California Report” and has been a frequent guest host on KPCC radio’s “Air Talk.”

For information, call (310) 434-4003.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 7, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/050704.pdf?ref=smdp.com)