Twenty-Third ANNUAL CELEBRATION First Amendment AWARDS DINNER Radio Television Digital News Foundation CongratulationsTO THE 2013 RTDNF FIRST AMENDMENT HONOREES Robert Decherd Twitter, Inc. Lloyd Siegel Candy Crowley A.H. Belo NBC News CNN Corporation Partnerships YOUR FRIENDS AT RTDNA AND RTDNF Bill Roswell Vincent Duffy Terry Scott RTDNA Chairman Dan Shelley Kevin Benz Robert Garcia RTDNF Chairman Dave Busiek Chris Carl Cissy Baker RTDNA Chairman-elect Stacey Woelfel Loren Tobia Jerry Walsh RTDNA Treasurer Janice Gin Ed Esposito Bob Priddy RTDNF Treasurer David Louie Mike Cavender Kathy Walker RTDNA/F Executive Director Harvey Nagler Amy Tardif Barbara Cochran Andrew Vrees RTDNA/F President Emeritus Mark Willis Mark Kraham Randy Bell Immediate Past RTDNF Chairman Angie Kucharski 2 First Ammendment Awards Dinner | March 14, 2013 RADIO TELEVISION DIGITAL NEWS FOUNDATION Program WELCOME INTRODUCTION MASTER OF CEREMONIES Mike Cavender Kevin Benz Bill Plante RTDNA/F Executive Director RTDNF Chair CBS News Awards Presentation FIRST AMENDMENT Award Twitter, Inc. Award being accepted by Gabriel Stricker, Vice President of Communications FIRST AMENDMENT SERVICE Award Lloyd Siegel Vice President, NBC News Partnerships Presenter: Alex Wallace, Senior Vice President, NBC News; Executive Producter, ‘Rock Center with Brian Williams’ LEONARD ZEIDENBERG FIRST AMENDMENT Award Candy Crowley Chief Political Correspondent, CNN Presenter: Gwen Ifill, Senior Correspondent, PBS NewsHour FIRST AMENDMENT LEADERSHIP Award Robert Decherd Chairman, President, CEO, A.H. Belo Corporation Presenter: Michael Valentine, Vice President Content, Belo Corp. First Ammendment Awards Dinner | RTDNA.ORG 3 RADIO TELEVISION DIGITAL NEWS FOUNDATION Sponsors EXPRESSES SINCERE THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS: 4 First Ammendment Awards Dinner | March 14, 2013 Sponsors DIAMOND Belo Corp. PLATINUM CNN Newsource Gannett Hearst Television GOLD CNN National Association of Broadcasters NBC Universal Wiley Rein, LLP SILVER ABC News American Petroleum Institute CBS News U.S. Chamber of Commerce Consumer Electronics Association Investment Company Institute National Association of Broadcasters Nielsen UPS FRIENDS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT Barbara and John Cochran Lerman Senter PLLC Levine Sullivan Koch & Shulz, LLP Raycom Media First Ammendment Awards Dinner | RTDNA.ORG 5 Advertisement Save2013 RTDNA theAwards DinnerDate & Show October 14, 2013 | Marriott Marquis, New York, NY Contact Noukla Ruble for more information [email protected] | (202) 495-8717 First Amendment Award RTDNF recognizes exceptional success made by an individual or organization that has played a significant role in dissemination of news and information. Twitter was founded in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone. It took the service three years, two months and one day to send its first billion Tweets. Anyone can read, write and share messages of up to 140 characters on Twitter. These messages, or Tweets, are available to anyone interested in reading them, whether logged in or not. Your followers see every one of your messages in their timeline (the real- time feed of all the Twitter accounts they follow). This unique combination of open, public and unfiltered Tweets delivered in a simple, standardized 140-character unit, lets Twitter users share and discover what’s happening on any device in real time. Today, a billion Tweets are sent every two and a half days. These Tweets reflect ideas, opin- ions, conversations and images related to almost any topic imaginable. Every day, millions of people turn to Twitter to connect to their interests, share information, and find out what’s happening in the world right now. Twitter has rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with more than 200 million registered users, generating 400 million tweets daily, handling more than 1.6 billion search queries a day. For organizations, businesses and brands, these conversations offer a powerful context in which to connect their messages to what people are talk- ing about right now. It’s a canvas for telling engaging stories, for participating in cultural events, for broadcast- ing content, for people connecting directly with one another. One-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many all matter on Twitter: it lends itself to cause and action. With just a Tweet, millions of people learn about or show their support for positive initiatives that might have other- wise gone unnoticed. Founded in San Francisco, Twitter is used by people in nearly every country in the world — in fact, 70% of Twitter users are outside the U.S. The service is available in more than 35 languages. In just a few short years, Twitter has become the global town square. First Ammendment Awards Dinner | RTDNA.ORG 7 Congratulations, Lloyd Siegel. Leader. Colleague. Friend. We applaud tonight’s distinguished honor and your commitment to excellence at NBC News. NBC News, NBC Affiliate Marketing, NBC Owned Television Stations, and NBC Affiliate Relations are proud to support the RTDNF. 8 First Ammendment Awards Dinner | March 14, 2013 First Amendment Service Award This award honors news professionals in local or network news who work in an off-air, management capacity. Though largely behind-the-scenes work, winners of this award are in a position to influence their news products and demonstrate standards of excellence that are the underpinnings of journalistic integrity. Lloyd Siegel was named NBC News vice president for news partnerships in February 2006. He had previously served as director in the same capacity, with overall management responsibility for the division’s relationship with more than 200 owned and affiliated stations and their news directors. Siegel also serves on the board of NBC News Channel, which provides stations with broadcast and online coverage, as well as transmission facilities. The news partnerships unit coordinates editorial and promotional support for NBC stations from Nightly News, Today, Meet the Press, Rock Center, Dateline, as well as MSNBC, NBCNews.com, CNBC, TheGrio.com, NBCLatino.com, The Weather Channel, and other NBC Universal platforms. It also provides broadcast best practices for stations and assistance in making maximum use of their affiliation with NBC News. Siegel began his career in journalism as a copy boy for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Afterward, he worked as a reporter for WKYC in Cleveland and WRC in Washington. He also served as a field producer in the NBC News Washington bureau, during which he participated in coverage of many key Watergate events and managed the bureau’s White House trip coverage. Returning to WRC, he produced the 6 pm hour of Washington’s first two-hour early evening newscast. In New York, Siegel served as domestic news producer for NBC Nightly News for six years under John Chancellor and Tom Brokaw. He was then appointed executive producer of news specials and ran live coverage of the Challenger disaster, the Lockerbie bombing, Tiananmen Square protests, and other breaking news events. In that position, he also produced AIDS Fear/AIDS Fact with Tom Brokaw in 1985, the first network news broadcast devoted entirely to that emerging epidemic. As political editor, Siegel managed day-to-day coverage of the 1992 presidential campaign. Siegel is a graduate of Ohio State University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. For more than 20 years, Siegel has been an adjunct lecturer in broadcast news management at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He and David McCormick, NBC News vice president for news standards, teach a course each spring semester that began as a broadcast only discussion, but now encompasses Internet, social media, and other platforms as the industry has evolved. First Ammendment Awards Dinner | RTDNA.ORG 9 Congratulates Candy Crowley and the First Amendment Award Honorees Leonard Zeidenberg First Amendment Award 10 CableTM & © 2013 First News Network. A Time Warner Company. All rights reserved. Ammendment Awards Dinner | March 14, 2013 CNN_RTNF_Candy_2013.indd 1 2/13/13 11:44 AM Leonard Zeidenberg First Amendment Award Named for the late Broadcasting & Cable senior correspondent, this award is presented annually to a radio or television journalist or news executive whose work, through high standard and significant achievements, embodies the spirit of the First Amendment and it’s free-press principles. Candy Crowley is CNN’s award-winning chief political correspondent and anchor of State of the Union with Candy Crowley, a political hour of newsmaker interviews and analysis of the week’s most important issues. Crowley took the reins of State of the Union in February 2010. In her role as chief political correspondent, Crowley covers a broad range of stories, including presidential, congressional and gubernatorial races and major legislative developments on Capitol Hill. In 2012, Crowley was selected by the Commission on Presidential Debates to moderate the second presidential debate between President Obama and Gov. Romney. The town hall-style debate, which took place at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY on Oct. 16, was the first debate moderated by a woman in two decades. Since taking the anchor chair for State of the Union, Crowley has interviewed top newsmakers including: Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, outgoing Secretary of Defense Robert Gates; former President George W. Bush together with his brother, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush; former Vice President Dick Cheney