The Art of Journalism: An Evening with Mary Louise Kelly

Mary Louise Kelly

Mary Louise Kelly

Thursday, April 15, 2027 | 7:00 PM | Discovery Theater, Âé¶¹ÎÞÂë°æ Center for the Performing Arts

Kelly will discuss how she goes about covering national security and foreign policy, the state of the media, and how her team is experimenting with new ways to deliver the news. She’ll tell stories from the front lines of reporting from war zones, and touch on the challenges (and advantages!) of being a woman and a mother in that world. And she’ll share how she does her job despite living with profound hearing loss.


About Mary Louise Kelly

Award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and author Mary Louise Kelly is one of the most prominent voices in American journalism today. As host of NPR’s flagship evening news program, All Things Considered, and the national security podcast Sources & Methods, her reporting has taken her to North Korea, Russia, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Israel, Iran, and beyond.

Kelly’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. She has moderated conversations for the Council on Foreign Relations, the Munich Security Conference, the Aspen Security Forum, and the National Book Festival. She was a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for her on-the-ground reporting from Iran.

Kelly is a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers, a contributing writer at The Atlantic, and the author of two novels, Anonymous Sources and The Bullet. Her memoir, It. Goes. So. Fast., was a New York Times bestseller.