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AwardsCongratulations Are In Order...Congratulations to AP's Julie Hirschfeld Davis and CNN's Brianna Keilar. The National Press Foundation announced Davis and Keilar yesterday as the recipients of the Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting on Congress, print and broadcast respectively. The congressional reporters will receive their awards (and a $5,000 prize) at the NPF's 27th annual dinner in February. Awards in six other categories will also be presented then. TWT's Duin Nabs Two AwardsJulia Duin, religion editor for The Washington Times, recently snagged two awards from the Religion Newswriters Association, the professional organization for journalists who cover religion in the secular media. Duin was the second-place winner in the Religion Reporter of the Year category and took third in the Cornell Award competition. For more details see TWT here. Congrats to Julia! CNN's Malveaux Named Essence's Journo of the Year
CNN White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux will receive Essence's Journalist of the Year award this evening. Essence & Southern Company are partnering to host a special awards reception as part of the 2009 Congressional Black Caucus weekend to commemorate the achievements of today's most influential politicians and architects of change. The program will honor the accomplishments of The Honorable Congresswoman Barbara Lee with the Advocate Award; Musician & Activist Dr. Henry Panion, III with the Civic & Cultural Advancement Award; Morehouse College President Robert M. Franklin, Jr. with the Hope Award; and CNN Washington Correspondent Suzanne Malveaux as Journalist of the Year. Congratulations to Suzanne! Viva Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero!Washington's own Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero, aka Chita Rivera, was one of 16 notable Medal of Freedom Recipients recognized in a ceremony yesterday. Rivera was born and raised in D.C. and attended the prestigious Jones Haywood School of Dance before making a brand new start of it in NYC. She and The President share something else in common: they both "know the adversity that comes with a difficult name". Times Takes The Reigns & Unveils NABJ360At their annual Salute to Excellence Awards, the locally-based National Association of Black Journalists welcomed Emmy Award-winnning and ex-officio RTNDA member Kathy Times as their new president. Times recently unveiled NABJ360, which she calls "Media Bistro, Facebook and Amazon.com rolled into one". As we reported earlier, other NABJ honors were also handed out: Journalist of the Year - Michele Norris, NPR
CQ Reporter Honored With NPC's Political Journalism AwardCQ reporter Tim Starks won the National Press Club's Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism, announced yesterday. Must run in the CQ family-- Jonathan Allen was the recipient in 2008. Congrats and hope you're celebrating this weekend, Tim! SPJ DC Chapter's 2009 Hall Of Famers To Be Inducted June 9thWhat do CBS' Bob Schieffer, PBS' Gwen Ifill, US News & World Report's Kenneth Walsh and the Bureau of National Affairs' Toby McIntosh have in common? All will be inducted into the Society of Professional Journalists' DC Pro Chapter's Hall of Fame on June 9th. WaPo columnist Courtland Milloy will also receive the Chapter's 2009 Distinguished Service Award at this event. More details here. Kitfield Scores Third Gerald R. Ford Prize for Defense ReportingNational Journal's James Kitfield was named this year's winner of the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense. Kitfield won the prize in 1990 and 1995 and is the is the only reporter to have won it more than once. He will receive this year's award, which comes with a $5,000 prize, at a June 1 ceremony in Washington.
Peabody Awards: NPR, Washington Week, NYT.com and CNN HonoredNBC's Brian Williams hosted the Peabody Awards on May 18th in New York. Winners included Washington Week's Gwen Ifill, the NYT website, and CNN for their "Coverage of 2008 Presidential Primary and Debates." NPR snagged three. Click here for the full list of winners.
"Meet's" Betsy Fischer & CNBC's Erin Burnett HonoredMeet the Press' Betsy Fischer and CNBC's Erin Burnett are just two of the five ladies being honored tomorrow evening at Running Start's annual "Women to Watch Awards." The event will be held at the National Press Club to honor some of the most impressive young women in the country. Other women who made the list this year are Julie Gilbert, Founder and CEO of WOLF Means Business, WH Deputy Chief of Staff Mona Sutphen, and Tammy Duckworth of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Dee Dee Myers, Dana Perino, Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia, Dina Habib Powell and Liz Haesler will all be on hand to introduce the honorees. For more information about the organization or tomorrow's awards, visit Running Start. PreviouslyNPR's Norris Named "Journo of the Year" by NABJ Kristol Up $250,000 After Nabbing Bradley Prize Seattle Times Reporters Win Atlantic Award Safire To Receive Written Word Award Best of USA Today 2008 Winners Announced WTOP Racks Up Regional RTNDA Awards Schieffer and Thomas Honored With Lifetime Achievement Awards in Murrow's Name RTCA Award Submission Deadline Approaching The Atlantic Scores Web Awards, VQR Nabs Two Noms Ifill Receives Goldsmith Career Award 2009 Walter Cronkite Awards Announced NPF Awards 2009: Celebratory Funeral Linda Rice Wins Kiplinger Award Downie Wins Bradlee Editor of the Year Award PolitiFact Wins 2008 Online Journalism Award Heath, Bernton Take Home Dirksens Beeler Wins Berryman Award For Editorial Cartoons IPJ Honors Novak With Award In His Name Krugman Wins Nobel Economics Prize The Hill's Reporters Are Better Than Yours Walcott Wins The First I.F. Stone Medal 2008 National Press Club Award Winners Named Paul Miller Fellowships Announced Another National Press Club Award Winner Jamieson, Mazzetti Win Livingston Award City Paper Lands Six AltWeekly Finalists Tofani Wins The Michael Kelly Award Pulitzers Announced...WaPo Cleans Up BREAKING: WaPo Wins Six Pulitzers Steve Fainaru from WaPo's Foreign Desk: The Sixth Pulitzer?!? Michael Kelly Award Finalists Named Washingtonian Garners Three 2008 National City And Regional Magazine Awards Finalist Nods National Journalism Awards Announced Education Reporting Awards Announced Priest/Hull Begin Awards Sweep Priest/Hull Win Worth Bingham Prize Call For Entries: The Michael Kelly Award New Reporters Join Congressional Standing Committee of Correspondents Bradlee Receives French Legion Of Honor BREAKING: Wilke, Griffin Win Dirksen Steiger To Be Honored By Press Club City Paper's Worst Food Writing Awards Are You The Washington PR Woman of the Year? Knight International Journalism Award Winners Named Rapp to Manage Paul Miller Washington Fellowships DCist Wins "Best Local Blog" Honors Chandrasekaran Wins Samuel Johnson Prize National Press Club Awards Announced 2007 Edward R. Murrow Award Winners Announced |
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