60 Minutes co-editor and CBS News correspondent Lesley Stahl will receive this year's Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism. The award will be given at the Goldsmith Awards Ceremony at 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 11, at the Kennedy School of Government's ARCO Forum.

The Goldsmith Award is given annually by the Joan Shorenstein Center to recognize and honor a journalist whose work has enriched our political discourse and our society.

"Lesley Stahl has done it all. She covered Watergate, she was a White House correspondent, and now she adds solid reporting and luster to the reporting staff of 60 Minutes." said Marvin Kalb, director of the Shorenstein Center. "She deserves this honor."

Previous winners of the award are Dan Rather (1998), Barbara Walters (1997), Peter Jennings (1996), Mike Wallace (1995), Ted Koppel (1994), and Don Hewitt and Bob Woodward (1992).

The Goldsmith Awards Program, launched in 1991, also includes a $25,000 Prize for Investigative Reporting, a $5,000 Book Prize, Research Awards, and Fellowships. The winners of these prizes will also be announced at the March 11 event.

A related seminar will take place Friday, March 12, at 9:30 a.m. 'The Present and Future of Investigative Reporting' will include the following speakers: Lesley Stahl; Kim Bell, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch; William Allen, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Will Englund, The Baltimore Sun; Gary Cohn, The Baltimore Sun; Alix Freedman, The Wall Street Journal; Bart Gellman, The Washington Post; Dan Keating, The Miami Herald; and Marvin Kalb (moderator), director of the Joan Shorenstein Center. The event takes place in the Malkin Penthouse at the Kennedy School.

The awards ceremony and the seminar are free and open to the public.