On Wednesday, April 29, Cheryl W. Thompson, an award-winning journalist and investigative correspondent for National Public Radio’s, headlined this year’s Hall School of Journalism and Communication M. Stanton Evans Symposium on the Troy Campus. Thompson spoke with HSJC students and faculty members about her career, the “power of the pen,” and the need for journalism as a pillar of democracy. Before joining NPR in 2019 Thompson spent over 20 years at The Washington Post as an investigative repor