When Canadian newspaper editor Tony Sutton moved to Toronto from Johannesburg in 1990, apartheid was still firmly in place in South Africa, and free expression there remained an endangered commodity.

Sutton, just back from a two-week visit to his old beat in Johannesburg, will discuss "Before and After Apartheid: Free Press and Free Expression in South Africa" at Utah State University. He will give the concluding speech in the 1996-97 "Media & Society Lecture," sponsored by the USU Department of Communication, at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, May 15, in the David Haight Alumni Center on the USU campus.Sutton, who was an editor in South Africa for 14 years, will report on how the political climate there has changed since the end of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa in 1994, said Ted Pease, head of the Communication Department at USU.

For more information about the Sutton lecture, or about other events in the Media & Society Series, call 797-3292.

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