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Twenty-Third Annual Celebration First Amendment Awards dinner

Radio Television Digital News Foundation Congratulationsto the 2013 RTDNF First Amendment Honorees

Robert Decherd , Inc. Lloyd Siegel Candy Crowley A.H. NBC News CNN Corporation Partnerships

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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 ’

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.

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Expresses sincere thanks to our generous sponsors:

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Diamond Belo Corp.

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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

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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 , 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, , 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 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 and . 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 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 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.

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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 , 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 together with his daughter Liz Cheney; and 2012 Republican presidential candidates Rep. Michele Bachmann, businessman Herman Cain, former Speaker of the House , former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Rep. Ron Paul and former Pennsylvania Sen. .

Crowley played a pivotal role in CNN’s America Votes 2008 Peabody Award-winning coverage, traveling to both conventions, every debate and additional stops along the campaign trail. In 2009, she earned a prestigious Award for coverage of Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White House. She also was part of the network’s Emmy Award-winning 2006 midterm election coverage.

She has covered the presidential campaigns of Pat Buchanan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, , Howard Dean, Bob Dole, Jesse Jackson, Edward Kennedy, John Kerry, and Ronald Reagan, among others. Since the presidential nomination of , she has covered all but one of the national political conventions. She was also granted an exclusive sit-down interview with President George W. Bush days before he left office.

Among her most vivid memories as a reporter, Crowley counts the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast; the impeachment trial of President Clinton; Election Night 2000; ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of D-Day on the beaches of Normandy; Ronald Reagan’s trips to China, Bitburg and Bergen-Belsen; the night the bombed Libya; and the terrorist bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut.

Crowley began her broadcast journalism career in Washington, D.C., as a newsroom assistant for radio station WASH. She has served as White House correspondent for the , where she covered most of the Reagan era before moving on to NBC-TV to become a general assignment correspondent in NBC’s Washington bureau. She came to CNN from NBC News in 1987.

In 2012, Crowley delivered the commencement address at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, where she was presented with the Maharishi Award. Also in 2012, Crowley was honored with the American News Women’s Club Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 2005, Crowley was honored with the Edward R. Murrow award and the Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for excellence in journalism for her reporting on the 2004 presidential election. In 2003, Crowley won an Emmy for her work on CNN Presents Enemy Within. She won the 1999 DuPont-Columbia University Silver Baton Award for her coverage of the impeachment and trial of President Bill Clinton. She won the 2003 and 1998 Dirksen Awards for distinguished reporting on Congress from the National Press Foundation.

Crowley earned a bachelor’s degree from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. You can follow Candy @CrowleyCNN, and State of the Union with Candy Crowley on Twitter @CNNSotu.

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Belo Corp. | 400 South Record Street | , 75202 | 214.977.6606 | www.belo.com First Amendment Leadership Award RTDNF presents this award annually to a media executive, business or government leader who has upheld the highest standards of journalism and made a significant contribution to the protection of First Amendment freedoms.

Robert Decherd is Chief Executive Officer of A. H. Belo Corporation. A. H. Belo Corporation owns and operates , Texas’ leading newspaper and winner of nine Pulitzer Prizes; the Denton Record-Chronicle; The Providence Journal, the oldest continuously-published daily newspaper in the U.S. and winner of four Pulitzer Prizes; and The Press-Enterprise, serving southern California’s Inland Empire region and winner of one Pulitzer Prize. A. H. Belo’s newspapers and related assets were spun off in February 2008 from Belo Corp., which Decherd led as CEO for the prior 21 years.

A. H. Belo owns and manages various websites associated with the newspapers, as well as certain niche products, direct mail and commercial printing businesses. A. H. Belo had annual revenue of approximately $462 million in 2011 and carries no debt, making it the least leveraged pure-play newspaper company in the country. The Dallas Morning News, The Providence Journal and The Press-Enterprise have total combined circulation of 651,019 daily and 971,490 Sunday. The total audience reach of the three newspapers is 3.8 million when the Company’s online businesses are included.

Decherd has worked for A. H. Belo Corporation and Belo Corp. since his graduation cum laude from Harvard College in 1973. During his years as Belo Corp.’s CEO, the Company grew in revenue from $397 million to $1.6 billion. Net income grew from $20 million to more than $130 million. The Company’s three major newspapers and 20 television stations, including six stations in the top 14 markets, have won 14 Pulitzer Prizes, 29 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, 25 George Foster and 54 national Edward R. Murrow Awards, the most prestigious journalistic awards in the newspaper publishing and television businesses. The companies’ websites have been recognized as some of the leading sites supported by legacy media companies.

Aside from his corporate duties, Decherd has played a significant role in the newspaper and television broadcasting industries, and in freedom of information organizations. He has served on the boards of the Newspaper Association of America and the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, which he helped found 1979, serving as its first president from 1979-82. For the next 20 years, Belo Corp. provided the majority of the FOIFT’s financial support and created a permanent endowment that now underwrites its activities on an ongoing basis. Under Decherd’s direction, Belo has also lobbied in Texas and in Washington for reporter shield laws and other press protections.

Decherd has served on the board of directors of Kimberly-Clark Corporation since 1996, and from 2004-2008 was Kimberly-Clark’s lead director and chairman of its executive committee. Previously, he was chairman of Kimberly-Clark’s audit committee. He also serves on the Advisory Council for the Center for Ethics at Harvard University and has been a member of the Graduate Council of The Harvard Crimson since 1973. As a former president of The Crimson (1972-73), Decherd has been one of that newspaper’s strongest advocates and financial supporters. He currently serves on the Board of Visitors of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.

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14 First Ammendment Awards Dinner | March 14, 2013 Proudly Salutes the 2013 RTDNF First Amendment Honorees

Robert Decherd, A.H. Belo Corporation First Amendment Leadership Award

Candy Crowley, CNN Leonard Zeidenberg First Amendment Award

Lloyd Siegel, NBC News First Amendment Service Award

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The National Association of Broadcasters congratulates Robert Decherd and the other RTDNF First Amendment honorees for their exceptional leadership and commitment to promoting and defending freedom of speech. NAB is proud to represent America’s broadcasters who share their dedication to protecting this precious freedom.

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First Amendment Leadership Award

2012 – Steve Capus 2003 – Floyd Abrams 2011 – David Barrett 2002 – Katharine Graham 2010 – David Westin 2001 – 2009 – Google Inc. 2000 – R.E. “Ted” Turner 2008 – Tom Curley 1999 – Bob Wright 2007 – Roger Ailes 1998 – 2006 – Belo Corporation, Clear Channerl, Emmis 1997 – Robert L. Johnson Communications, Entercom Communications, 1996 – Howard Stringer Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc., Raycom Media, 1995 – Tom Johnson Inc., Tribune Broadcasting 1994 – James Quello 2005 – Jim Keelor 1993 – Frank Stanton 2004 – Charles Grassley 1992 – Allen Neuhath 2004 – Patrick Leahy

First Amendment Service Award 2012 – Marci Burdick 2006 – William Wheatley 2000 – Lee Giles 2011 – Susana Schuler 2005 – Wendy Walker Whitworth 1999 – Marty Haag 2010 – Harvey Nagler 2004 – Walter Ulloa 1998 – Betty Cole Dukert 2009 – Susan Grant 2003 – Susan Zirinsky 2008 – Paula Madison 2002 – Fred Young 2007 – Philip S. Balboni 2001 – Gary Wordlaw

Leonard Zeidenberg First Amendment Award

2012 – 2005 – 1997 – Jane Pauley 2011 – 2004 – 1996 – Carole Simpson 2010 – Brian Williams 2003 – 1995 – 2009 – 2002 – 1994 – 2008 – 2001 – Jim Lehrer 1993 - John Chancellor 2007 – and 2000 – Diane Sawyer 1992 – James Snyder Kimberly Dozier 1999 – 2006 – Gwen Ifill 1998 –

First Amendment Award

2012 – Jim Bohannon 2010 – Barbara Cochran & Marcellus Alexander 2009 – John S. and James L. Knight Foundation 2008 – Richard Wiley

First Ammendment Awards Dinner | RTDNA.ORG 17 Advertisement Salutes Its 2012-2013 Scholarship & Fellowship Winners

2012-2013 Scholarship Winners

Mike Reynolds Journalism Scholarship Pete Wilson Scholarship (Undergraduate) Sarah Sax Summer Dashe University of Southern California Southern Methodist University

Ed Bradley Scholarship Pete Wilson Scholarship (Graduate) Jacey Sisneros Casey Capachi Pepperdine University UC Berkley

Carole Simpson Scholarship Presidents Scholarship Dakarai Turner Brandon Goldner DePaul University University of Maryland

George Forman Tribute to Presidents Scholarship Lyndon B. Johnson Scholarship Joseph Bruno Cathryn Walker Elon University University of Texas at Austin Abe Schechter Graduate Scholarship Lou and Carole Prato Sports Reporting Scholarship Heather Martino Katie Gillen CUNY School of Journalism University of Florida

2012-2013 Fellowship Winners

N.S. Bienstock Fellowship Alexis Morgan Centre County Report / Columbia University (Masters Program)

Jaque I. Minnotte Health Reporting Fellowship Lara Salahi ABC News

Michele Clark Fellowship Rosa Flores WBRZ-TV

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Mike Reynolds Journalism Scholarship

Sarah Sax University of Southern California

Sarah Sax is a junior studying broadcast and digital journalism at the University of Southern California. She was selected to be a 2013-2014 Executive Producer of Annenberg TV News (ATVN)—USC’s daily, student-run news broadcast that covers local, national and international news. Sax has also served as a multimedia journalist, art director and weather anchor for ATVN.

As an ABC7 Online News Intern, Sax managed, researched and created multimedia content. As an NBC4 Digital Channel Intern, Sax wrote scripts and edited footage that broadcasted on the show “Nonstop News L.A.” Sax also had the opportunity to shadow reporters, inspiring her and affirming her passion for journalism. Her journalistic goals are to educate her viewers and to inspire them to take action

Ed Bradley Scholarship

Jacey Sisneros Pepperdine University

Jacey Sisneros is a senior Broadcast Journalism major at Pepperdine University. She is originally from Loveland, Colorado. She anchors for TV-32’s “Newswaves” and reports in Malibu as Pepperdine’s Senior Reporter. As an intern at NBC this Fall, her passion for storytelling was further confirmed and she is eager to return to KNBC in the Spring for a second semester. Jacey believes the human story is powerful and she is driven to communicate the stories that surround us to other people. Upon graduation in April 2013, she hopes to begin her career as a television news reporter.

20 First Ammendment Awards Dinner | March 14, 2013 Carole Simpson Scholarship

Dakarai Turner DePaul University

Dakarai is an undergraduate student majoring in broadcast journalism at DePaul University in . He’s gained immeasurable experience interning at WMAQ, NBC 5 Chicago and WFLD, FOX 32 News. His passion and desire to learn anything and everything about TV news and the world and people around him, whether it be in the classroom or reporting in the field, pushes him higher and further every day. Dakarai’s passionate about international and U.S. current events, news and politics. He reaches every day to achieve his dreams of serving the eventual community in which he works and in his hometown Seattle while working at a top news network.

George Foreman Tribute to Lyndon B. Johnson Scholarship

Cathryn Walker University of Texas at Austin

Cathryn Marie Walker was born on Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland as the daughter of a naval officer. Born in the military she frequently moved, living in Maryland, California, Washington State, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Texas, where she graduated from Earl Warren High School in San Antonio with a 4.0 grade point average.

Cathryn attends the University of Texas at Austin where she is currently working towards a degree in broadcast journalism and a minor in global business foundations. She plans to study abroad to develop a global appreciation of world affairs in journalism.

Lou and Carole Sports Reporting Scholarship

Katie Gillen University of Florida

Ever since Katie Gillen did the morning announcements in Middle School she knew she wanted to work in television. Watching sporting events with my family and attending them helped her decide to pursue Sports Reporting at the University of Florida.

At the University of Florida Katie spent her time reporting on sporting events and serving as a sports anchor during the evening newscast. When Katie was not working around Sports she spent her time working with clubs on campus like the local chapters of the Radio Television Digital News Association and National Broadcasting Society. Katie plans to continue covering sports upon graduation in May 2013.

First Ammendment Awards Dinner | RTDNA.ORG 21 Pete Wilson Scholarship (undergraduate)

Summer Dashe Southern Methodist University

Summer Dashe has dreamed of becoming a broadcast news reporter since she was a toddler. In high school she interned at The Danville Weekly. After graduating, Dashe moved to Texas to pursue a degree in Journalism and a minor in Ethics at Southern Methodist University where she became heavily involved in SMU-TV. In January 2012, she traveled to Rwanda to conduct interviews and film about women’s education issues post-genocide. During the summer of 2012 she returned to The Bay Area for an internship with KTVU Channel 2 News. Summer is currently a staff reporter at The Dallas Morning News. Dashe looks forward to graduating in May 2013 and can’t wait to tell stories and report the news wherever her career takes her.

Pete Wilson Scholarship (Graduate)

Casey Capachi UC Berkley

Casey Capachi is in her final year as a student at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism where she is focusing in Television and Multimedia. She is a Multimedia Graduate Student Researcher and a Kaiser Health Policy Journalism Fellow. Her stories have appeared in such places as The Plain Dealer, The Bay Citizen, Contra Costa Times, and SFGate. Casey has worked on reports for NBC Nightly News, the TODAY Show, ABC7s 7 On Your Side (KGO-TV), and Channel 2 News (KTVU). She is a contributor to the Mobile Reporting Field Guide, which is available in iTunes. Casey has received awards from the Sacramento Press Club and the Asian American Journalists Association. Her favorite place to be is in a newsroom when there is breaking news.

Presidents Scholarship

Brandon Goldner University of Maryland

Brandon Goldner is an award-winning junior broadcast journalism major at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. He’s worked as a summer reporter for KVRR-TV in Fargo, North Dakota; a teen anchor/reporter for WMAR-TV in ; a news intern for WBAL-TV in Baltimore; and he was one of the youngest interns in the history of NBC News’ Meet the Press. He’s currently an EMMY award- winning director at his college’s T.V. station and is serving his second term as co-president of his school’s Society of Professional Journalists chapter.

22 First Ammendment Awards Dinner | March 14, 2013 Presidents Scholarship

Joseph Bruno Elon University

Joe Bruno is a junior, broadcast journalism major at Elon University. He is the News Director of Elon Local News, Elon University’s student newscast. With ELN, Joe has had the opportunity to report at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, anchor a 7-hour live election show and interview President Clinton. He is a former intern at WFMZ-TV in Allentown, Pennsylvania and WMGM-TV in Atlantic City, New Jersey. His interests include breaking news, political and investigative journalism, enterprise reporting and dynamic producing. After graduation he wishes to be a reporter at a local TV station.

Abe Schechter Graduate Scholarship

Heather martino CUNY School of Journalism

Heather Martino is a Health and Science Reporting major at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, where she works as the Digital Media Assistant. She also holds a B.S./M.A. in Diplomacy and International Relations from Seton Hall University, where she managed an award winning international news radio program on WSOU 89.5 FM. Heather’s interest in global health studies stems from her work as the Web Design and Social Media Editor for the Journal of Global Health Governance. She is currently pursuing a career in broadcast journalism, and hopes to raise awareness of global and public health concerns in developing nations.

N.S. Bienstock Fellowship

Alexis Morgan Centre County Report Columbia University (Masters Program)

Alexis Morgan is currently attending the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Originally from the nation’s capital, she recently graduated from Penn State with a degree in broadcast journalism. Alexis has been an anchor at the Centre County Report, a sideline reporter for the Big Ten Network as well as a contributor to USA Today College and Psychology Today.

First Ammendment Awards Dinner | RTDNA.ORG 23 Jaque I. Minnotte Health Reporting Fellowship

Lara Salahi ABC News

Lara Salahi is an award-winning multimedia journalist and contributor to ABC News and the Globe. Lara is a content producer for the online breaking news and feature site of the Boston Globe, Boston.com. She is the founder and author of the site’s online column Ultra Sound Pregnancy, which takes a closer look at trends on fertility, pregnancy, and delivery. She also writes for the weekly “Be Well” section of the Boston Globe which analyzes the latest scientific studies to offer a brief and simple look at the findings and what it means for you. She field produces pieces in the area for ABC News shows including and World News with Diane Sawyer. Lara received a dual undergraduate degree from Boston University in Broadcast Journalism and International Relations with concentration in Middle East and North Africa foreign policy and security studies, along with a minor in French. She also has a master’s degree in Health Communication from . Lara travels extensively and is fluent in Armenian, Arabic, and French.

Michele Clark Fellowship

Rosa Flores WBRZ-TV

Rosa Flores has contributed news reports at the national, state and local levels. Presently, she anchors the 4pm newscast and reports for the 10pm show at WBRZ, the ABC affiliate in Baton Rouge. She has also worked at WDSU, KHOU and KWTV. She is the author of Progreso, a history book about her hometown. Rosa was selected to participate in the Project for Journalists and the Constitution and two Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting fellowships. Rosa earned a Bachelor’s in Broadcast Journalism, a Bachelor’s in Business Administration and a Master’s in Accounting at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Kevin Benz, Chair Austin, TX

Bill McCloskey Hugo Balta Edie Emery Bethesda, MD National Association of Hispanic CNN Journalists Kathy Kirby Ed Esposito Wiley Rein Marci Burdick Rubber City Radio Group Schurz Communications Mark Kraham Dan Shelley WHAG-TV Janice S. Gin Radio One, Inc. KTVU-TV Stacey Woelfel Guy Kerr KOMU-TV Harvey Nagler A.H. Belo Corp CBS Radio Barbara Cochran David Louie University of Missouri Fred Young KGO-TV Hearst Bob Butler Steve Jones KCBS Radio, National Association Meghan Pianta ABC News Radio of Black Journalists NBC Mission The Radio Television Digital News Foundation (RTDNF) provides training programs, seminars, scholarship support and research in areas of critical concern to electronic news professionals and their audience. As the educational arm of the Radio Television Digital News Association, RTDNF offers professional development opportunities for working and aspiring journalists and journalism educators. The Foundation’s primary objectives include: • Promoting discussion of ethics and integrity in news coverage • Developing leadership skills among news professionals and sound management practices in news organizations • Encouraging diversity in news organizations and in news coverage • Assessing the impact of technological change on the news industry • Fostering exchanges of ideas and perspectives at the local, national and international levels • Supporting U.S. First Amendment rights, worldwide press freedom and the public’s right to know

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Vincent Duffy Kevin Benz Chris Carl RTDNA Chairman RTDNF Chairman RTDNA Chairman – Elect Radio Austin, TX WDEL - AM Ed Esposito Mike Cavender Loren Tobia RTDNF Secretary/Treasurer Executive Director RTDNA Treasurer Rubber City Radio Group RTDNA/F AccuWeather

Kathy Walker Mark Kraham KOA Radio WHAG-TV

Brandon Mercer Amy Tardif KTXL, Fox 40 Sacramento WGCU-FM

Mark Willis Terry Scott Sirius/XM Radio The Canadian Press

Carlton Houston Sean McGarvy KTUL News Channel 8 Channel

Jam Sadar Dan Shelley WLNS-TV Radio One, Inc.

Randy Bell Jerry Walsh WMSI-FM WQJQ-FM Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc. WJDX-AM David Louie Andrew Vrees KGO-TV WCVB-TV Janice S. Gin Bill Roswell KTVU-TV KYW Newsradio

Col. Barney Oldfield, USAF (1909-2003) RTDNF Founder

28 First Ammendment Awards Dinner | March 14, 2013 Congratulations to our friend, Robert Decherd

Wiley Rein congratulates Robert Decherd,Advertisement Chairman of Belo Corp. and A.H. Belo Corporation, on receiving the First Amendment Leadership Award for his signi cant contributions to protecting freedom of the press.

We salute Robert and all of tonight’s honorees for their work and dedication to protecting the First Amendment.

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