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Feb. 20, 2004
Scripps Howard Foundation names judges for annual National Journalism Awards
CINCINNATI
-- The Scripps Howard
Foundation has announced the names of 34 journalists and media
professionals who have been selected to judge this year's
National Journalism Awards competition.
The Foundation
will recognize the best work of 2003 in newspaper, broadcast
and Web journalism, distinguished service to journalism
education, literacy and the First Amendment, and college
cartoonist categories during an awards dinner at the National
Press Club in
Also recognized will be the winners
of the newly established Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize for
Excellence in Investigative Reporting. The $25,000 Farfel
prize is funded by a gift to
The names of the
winners of the National Journalism Awards will be announced
March 12 and posted on the Foundation’s Web site at www.scripps.com/foundation.
The Farfel prize winner will be announced in late
March.
“The Scripps Howard Foundation’s
National Journalism Awards are among the most coveted in our
profession largely because of the quality of the judging,”
said Judith G. Clabes, the Foundation’s president and chief
executive officer. “Each year we assemble a panel of respected
journalism professionals to review hundreds of entries from
across the country. They set a high standard of journalistic
excellence by bringing a distinguished level of expertise and
care to the judging process.”
The deadline for
National Journalism Award entries was Jan. 30. Cash awards for
winning entries will total $130,000. Cash awards are $5,000
per category for this year's
competition.
Competition rules and a listing of
categories are available on the Scripps Howard Foundation’s
Web site at www.scripps.com/foundation.
Following are judges for this
year’s awards:
Scott Adams, creator of “Dilbert”;
David J. Anable, president, International Center for
Journalists; Mark Anderson, chief photojournalist, KSTP-TV,
St. Paul, Minn.; Andrew Barnes, chairman and CEO, St.
Petersburg (Fla.) Times; Roberta Baskin, senior correspondent,
PBS program: “NOW With Bill Moyers”, Washington, D.C.; and
Peter Bhatia, executive editor, The Oregonian,
Portland.
Mary Kay Blake, senior vice
president, partnerships and initiatives, The Freedom Forum,
Arlington, Va.; Rich Boehne, executive vice president, The E.
W. Scripps Company; Del Brinkman, journalism dean emeritus,
University of Kansas and University of Colorado; Kenneth F.
Bunting, executive editor, Seattle Post-Intelligencer; Lucy
Shelton Caswell, professor and curator, Cartoon Research
Library, The Ohio State University; and Milton Coleman, deputy managing
editor, The Washington Post.
Evan Cornog,
publisher, Columbia Journalism Review, associate dean,
Columbia Journalism School; Phil Currie, senior vice
president/news, Newspaper Division, Gannett Company;
Lucy A. Dalglish,
executive director, The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the
Press, Arlington, Va.; Edward Felsenthal, editor, Personal
Journal, The Wall Street Journal; and Robert H. Giles, curator, Nieman
Foundation for Journalism,
John Maxwell Hamilton, dean and
Hopkins P. Braezeale Professor, Manship School of Mass
Communications, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Karla
Garrett Harshaw, editor, Springfield (Ohio) News-Sun, senior
editor of Cox Community Newspapers; Joe R. Howry, managing
editor, Ventura County (Calif.) Star; Tim Kelly, president and
publisher, Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader; and Craig Klugman,
editor, The Journal Gazette, Ft. Wayne,
Ind.
Kathy A.
Krendl, Ph.D., dean, College of Communication, Ohio
University, Athens; Jack McElroy, vice president and editor,
The Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel; John A. Nelson, managing
editor, The Advocate-Messenger, Danville, Ky.; Robert M.
O’Neil, director, Thomas Jefferson Center for the
Protection of Free Expression;
Otis Sanford, managing editor, The
Commercial Appeal, Memphis; Mike Silverman, managing editor,
The Associated Press; Ellen Soeteber, editor, St. Louis
Post-Dispatch; Mark Tomasik, editor, Scripps (Florida)
Treasure Coast Newspapers; Al Tompkins, group leader/broadcast
and online, The Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Fla.; and
Charlie Waters, executive editor and senior vice president,
The Fresno (
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