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Feb. 12, 2001
Scripps Howard Foundation names judges for annual National Journalism Awards
CINCINNATI -- The The
Scripps Howard Foundation has announced the names of 27
journalists and media professionals who will judge the
National Journalism Awards.
The
Foundation will recognize the best work of 2000 in newspaper,
broadcast and Web journalism, distinguished service to
literacy and First Amendment causes; and college cartoonist
categories.
"We' ve assembled some
of the most respected names in American journalism to judge
the hundreds of excellent entries we've received," said Judith
G. Clabes, president and CEO of the Scripps Howard
Foundation. "The quality of the judges is one of the
reasons the National Journalism Awards are so widely respected
and coveted."
The deadline for
entries was Jan. 31. Cash awards totaling $50,000 will be
presented Friday, April 6 during a banquet at the National
Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Competition rules and a listing of categories are
available on the Scripps Howard Foundation' s Web site at
www.scripps.com/foundation.
Following are the judges for this
year' s awards: Roberta Baskin, senior
producer, consumer investigations, ABC News, 20/20;
Robert J. Benz, director, online content
development, The E. W. Scripps Company; Terri
Burke, editor, Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News;
Lucy Caswell, professor and curator, Cartoon
Research Library, The Ohio State University; Colleen
Conant, editor and publisher, Daily Camera, Boulder,
Colo.; Peter Copeland, editor and general
manager, Scripps Howard News Service; and Kevin
Cosgrove, editor in chief, Oregonlive.com, Portland,
Ore.
Timothy
Gallagher, president and editor, Ventura County
(Calif.) Star; Tom Goldstein, dean, Graduate
School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.;
John Haile, founder of Inside Out Media
Partners, Orlando, Fla.; John Maxwell
Hamilton, dean and Hopkins P. Braezeale Professor,
Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge; Paul Knue, editor,
The Cincinnati Post/The Kentucky Post; and John F.
Lansing, vice president/broadcast station operations,
The E.W. Scripps Company.
Pam Luecke, editor and vice president,
Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader; Mike Marshall,
editor/vice president-news, Mobile (Ala.) Register;
Patrick McDonnell, MUTTS cartoonist, 1999
National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award Winner; T.
Wayne Mitchell, senior vice president and editor,
Anderson (S.C.) Independent-Mail; Christopher
Peck, editor, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane,
Wash.; George Rodrigue, executive editor, The
Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.; and Al
Roker, weather and feature reporter, NBC
News, "The Today Show."
Dennis Ryerson, vice president and
editor, The Des Moines (Iowa) Register; Kathy
Silverberg, executive editor, TimesDaily, Florence,
Ala.; Paul K. Scripps, vice
president/newspapers, The E. W. Scripps Company; Dan
K. Thomasson, retired vice president/news, columnist,
Scripps Howard News Service; Al Tompkins,
group leader/broadcast and online, The Poynter Institute, St.
Petersburg, Fla.; Vince Vawter, president and
publisher, Evansville (Ind.) Courier & Press; and
James Willse, editor, The Star-Ledger,
Newark, N.J.
Dedicated to
excellence in journalism, the Scripps Howard Foundation is a
leader in industry efforts in journalism education,
scholarships, internships, literacy, minority
recruitment/development and First Amendment causes.
Contact: Patty Cottingham, Scripps Howard Foundation, 513-977-3847, cottingham@scripps.com