ABC's Charlie Gibson will be honored with Quinnipiac University's Fred Friendly First Amendment Award this June. Friendly, a radio and TV news pioneer, famously left the business in 1966 when CBS chose to air The Lucy Show instead of a Senate hearing on U.S. involvement in Vietnam. In 2005, George Clooney played Fred Friendly in Good Night and Good Luck.

Past honorees of the Friendly award include Christiane Amanpour, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, Bob Schieffer and Lesley Stahl.

As an interesting aside, the University is battling students over the school's Newspaper editorial board. The school decided to hand-pick the board for next school year, and that's not sitting well with the students. Quinnipiac Chronicle editors are now considering severing ties with the school permanently.

CBS News Sunday Morning anchor Charles Osgood will be honored tonight with a Lifetime Achievement Award from his alma mater, Fordham University. CBS' Harry Smith will present the award, an an event emceed by ABC's Elizabeth Vargas. Osgood quipped, "It's very nice, of course, but my lifetime isn't over yet. They might want to take it back."

CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier will be honored tomorrow night by the Milwaukee Press Club for "excellence in journalism at the national level".

Dozier will be on hand in Milwaukee to receive her Sacred Cat Award, a tradition since 1973. Previous recipients include Aaron Brown, Judy Woodruff, and Max Robinson.

"We are extremely pleased to have Kimberly Dozier as this year's Sacred Cat honoree," said Press Club president Marilyn Krause in a press release. "Her award-winning work as a reporter and foreign correspondent places her among the best of the best, and what she has achieved in the face of numerous challenges is most remarkable. We will be honored to have her with us and hear her story at our Gridiron event."

Her story, of course, includes surviving a Baghdad bomb blast in 2006. Dozier's new book Breathing the Fire, in which she writes of the incident and her recovery, comes out May 13.

• Earlier: TVNewser's Gail Shister profiles Dozier.

ABC News' "To Catch A Predator: A Sting Gone Wrong," from Brian Ross and Vic Walter was one of the finalists announced today in the second annual Newhouse School Mirror Awards. The awards honor excellence in media industry reporting.

The 20/20 report from Ross and Walter in September 2007 focused on Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator series, and highlighted the lawsuit arising from the series' stop in Terrell, Texas.

The only other tvnewser nominated was also in the Best Investigative Piece category, a PBS Frontline report by Lowell Bergman.

If Ross and Walter win, they'll accept the award right in NBC News' house — the ceremony takes place on June 23 in the Rainbow Room at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

Former MSNBC VP Tammy Haddad, now president of Haddad Media, has been named to the Folio: 40. An annual list of magazine industry "influencers and innovators." Haddad is honored for showing "the magazine world that producing compelling video content doesn't have to be an expensive proposition." Hadded is working with Newsweek on their video ventures.

In February, Haddad coordinated a five-hour live Webcast covering the Super Tuesday primaries. It cost $2,000 to produce, and quickly found a sponsor, Dodge. It was streamed by roughly 100,000; they did another one for the so-called Potomac Primaries a week later. Next up for Haddad and Co. is a live Webcast of the Pope's visit to the U.S.-an exclusive Haddad has dubbed a "Popecast."

The 67th annual Peabody Award winners were announced today, and news-related awards were split across the board between networks.

ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff's series, "Wounds of War — The Long Road Home for Our Nation's Veterans," picked up a Peabody, as did Kimberly Dozier's piece for CBS News Sunday Morning, "The Way Home."

Another CBS News series, 60 Minutes, picked up an award for their story, "The Killings in Haditha," a Scott Pelley report. CNN picked up another award for Christiane Amanpour's "CNN Presents: God's Warriors." This was the 11th award for CNN.

The award presentation will be held on June 16 in New York City. NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams serves as master of ceremonies.

> Update: Also winning a Peabody was BBC America and World, for its report, "White Horse Village."

On May 1, CNN's God's Warriors will be awarded a 'Television Academy Honor,' a first-of-its-kind award presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The Academy says the documentary, reported by Christiane Amanpour, exemplifies "television with a conscience."

The award is part of the academy's Television Cares Committee, which honors programs that present issues "in a compelling, emotional and insightful way." Warriors is one of nine final recipients chosen from nearly 200 entries.

The highly-rated but controversial three-part, six-hour television event aired across CNN's U.S. and international networks last August. It explored the rise of religious fundamentalism in three faiths: Judaism, Islam and Christianity.

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NBC's Tim Russert will receive Syracuse University's Fred Dressler Lifetime Achievement Award. The award, presented by the Newhouse School of Public Communications, will be presented to Russert June 23 during the Mirror Awards ceremony at Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room.

The Mirror Awards honor reporters, editors and teams of writers who "hold a mirror to their own industry for the public's benefit."

"Russert was chosen to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award because, especially in an election year, there are few more important roles for the media than its role in the political process," says Newhouse Dean David M. Rubin. "Russert has questioned candidates-and even the practices of his own profession-for over 20 years."

The Fred Dressler Lifetime Achievement Award is named for the late cable programming executive and Newhouse School Advisory Board chairman.

More award news to report: MSNBC has won two 2008 CINE Special Jury Awards. One is for the documentary For God & Country: A Marine Sniper's Story, the other for an on-air promotion, Anchorman Countdown.

For God & Country tells the story of U.S. Marine Matthew Orth. Anchorman Countdown is a promo for Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

The documentary and the promo are now automatically up for consideration for the top CINE honor, the Masters Series Award.

According to CINE's website, the organization was founded "by a consortium representing business, education, and government" and its awards recognize "the highest quality of non-theatrical film and video production".

The 2008 National Headliner Awards have been announced, and CNN leads the pack with 13 wins. NBC/CNBC follows with 12. HDNet earned two nods, sharing one win with PBS' NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

Headliners are issued by the Press Club of Atlantic City. According to its website, the "Awards program is one of the oldest and largest annual contests recognizing journalistic merit in the communications industry."

Numerous awards are issued in the Broadcast Television Networks, Cable Networks and Syndicators division, with first, second, and third place honorees for each category. Some of the first-place winners include:

• Best Newscast: NBC Nightly News, "VA Tech Shootings"

• Coverage of a Major News Event: CNN, "Special Investigations Unit: Death Squads"

• Documentary or Series of Reports: HDNet, "The Forgotten Front: Terrorism in the Phillipines"

• News Magazine Program: "Uganda's Silent War", airing jointly on PBS' NewsHour and HDNet's World Report

• Business/Consumer Reporting: CNBC, "Mike on America"

• Environmental Reporting: CNN, "Planet in Peril"