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Twenty-Fourthannual Celebration Twenty-FourthAnnual Celebration First AmendmentAwards Dinner Radio Television Digital News Foundation Congratulationsto the 2014 rtdnf first amendment honorees The Associated Press Lester Holt Dave Lougee Robin Sproul Bill Plante NBC News Gannett Broadcasting ABC News CBS News Your Friends at RTDNA and RTDNF Chris Carl David Louie RTDNA Chairman Janice S. Gin Vince Duffy Harvey Nagler RTDNF Chairman Dan Shelley Kathy Walker Amy Tardif Christy Moreno RTDNA Chair-Elect Scott Libin Loren Tobia Terence Shepherd RTDNA Treasurer Brandon Mercer Ed Esposito Carlton Houston RTDNF Treasurer Jam Sardar Randy Bell Mike Cavender RTDNA/F Executive Director Andrew Vrees Bill Roswell Barbara Cochran Mark Kraham RTDNA President Emeritus Terry Scott Kevin Benz Jerry Walsh Immediate Past RTDNF Chairman Sean McGarvy Holly Gauntt 2 First Amendment Awards Dinner | March 12, 2014 Radio Television Digital News Foundation Program WELCOME INTRODUCTION MASTER OF CEREMONIES Mike Cavender Vince Duffy Chris Wallace RTDNA/F Executive Director RTDNF Chair FOX News Awards Presentation FIRST AMENDMENT AWARD The Associated Press Accepted by: Gary Pruitt, President and CEO, The Associated Press Presenter: Tom Curley, Retired, former President & CEO, The Associated Press FIRST AMENDMENT SERVICE AWARD Robin Sproul Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief, ABC News Presenter: Martha Raddatz, Chief Global Affairs Correspondent, ABC News LEONARD ZEIDENBERG FIRST AMENDMENT AWARD Lester Holt Principal Anchor, “Dateline”, Anchor, “NBC Nightly News” Weekend Edition Co-Anchor, “Today” Weekend Edition Presenter: David Corvo, Senior Executive Producer Primetime, NBC News First Amendment LeadersHIP Award Dave Lougee President, Gannett Broadcasting Presenter: Rob Mennie, Vice President & Senior News Executive at Gannett Broadcasting RTDNF Lifetime ACHIEVEMENT Award Bill Plante White House Correspondent, CBS News Presenter: Susan Zirinsky, Senior Executive Producer, CBS News First Amendment Awards Dinner | RTDNA.ORG 3 Radio Television Digital News Foundation Expresses sincere thanks to our generous sponsors: 4 First Amendment Awards Dinner | March 12, 2014 Sponsors DIAMOND Gannett Co, Inc. PLATINUM Cox Reps Hearst Television GOLD The Associated Press ABC News CNN Newsource National Association of Broadcasters SILVER American Petroleum Institute CBS News Radio CBS News CEA CNN Investment Company Institute NBC News National Association of Broadcasters Wiley Rein LLP FRIENDS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT ABC News Radio ABC NewsOne Steve Jones and Al Prieto John and Barbara Cochran U.S. Chamber of Commerce U.S. Trust Bank of America Corporation First Amendment Awards Dinner | RTDNA.ORG 5 DAVE LOUGEE, 2014 RTDNF FIRST AMENDMENT LEADERSHIP AWARD HONOREE UNBRIDLED PASSION, UNWAVERING DEDICATION A LEADER COMMITTED TO THE POWER OF LOCAL NEWS A ND THE BETTERMENT OF A MERICA. CONGR ATULATIONS, DAVE. 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. 2014 HONOREE DAVE LOUGEE Dave Lougee was named president of the Broadcasting Division for Gannett Co., Inc. in July, 2007. The company operates 23 television stations in the U.S. Lougee serves on several industry boards. He is currently Vice Chair of the NBC Affiliates Board, and a member of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Board of Directors. He is also a member of the BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.) Board of Directors, and is immediate past Chair of the Television Bureau of Advertising (TVB) Board of Directors. Prior to returning to Gannett, Lougee served as executive vice president/media operations for Belo, where he was in charge of the company’s 19 TV stations and four cable news operations outside of Dallas. In 2005, he was named a senior vice president of Belo. He joined Belo in 1998 as news director at KING-TV in Seattle/Tacoma, and became president and general manager of Belo’s TV and cable operations in Seattle/Tacoma in 2000. From 1996 to 1998, Lougee was vice president/news at WRC-TV, the NBC owned and operated station in Washington DC. From 1990 to 1996, Lougee was vice president/news director at KUSA-TV in Denver, a Gannett station. He began his broadcasting career at KMGH-TV in Denver in 1981, and worked at KCNC-TV in Denver Lougee is a graduate of the University of Colorado and attended the Stanford Executive Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2004. Dave and his wife Danni live in Great Falls, Virginia with their son Nash. First Amendment Awards Dinner | RTDNA.ORG 7 Congratulations Lester Holt 2014 Leonard Zeidenberg First Amendment Award Winner Your Friends & Colleagues At NBC News 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 its free-press principles. 2014 HONOREE LESTER HOLT Lester Holt was named Principal Anchor of “Dateline” in September 2011. Holt serves as the weekend anchor for the flagship broadcast “NBC Nightly News,” and is also the co-anchor of the weekend edition of “Today.” In addition, Holt serves as fill-in anchor and correspondent for “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams” and the weekday “Today” program. He also contributes to MSNBC, NBC’s 24-hour cable news network. Holt joined the NBC News family in 2000 and has reported from many of the world’s hot spots. In 2003 he reported from the Kuwait/Iraqi border as US forces prepared to launch their invasion of Iraq. In 2006, he reported from the front lines in Lebanon on the war between Israel and Hezbollah and from London on the terror threat to U.S. bound-airliners from the UK. In early 2010, Holt traveled to Haiti where he reported on the immediate aftermath and response to the devastating earthquake. In early 2011, Holt reported from the streets of Cairo on the latest political and civil unrest in Egypt. In March 2011, Holt travelled overseas to cover the earthquake and nuclear crisis in Japan. Other major international stories he has covered include the mysterious 2009 crash of an Air France jetliner over the South Atlantic. Holt was also among the early wave of reporters to cover the oil leak disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. He was in the same region in 2005 when both hurricanes Katrina and Rita came ashore. Over the last year, Holt has covered a wide range of stories for “Dateline.” In August 2011 – telling the story of the larger struggle in the American economy to lower unemployment – Holt reported from Millen, Georgia, a small industrial town so devastated by the Great Recession that its unemployment numbers were more than twice the national average. In January of this year, Holt conducted an exclusive interview with Oscar and Grammy winner Jennifer Hudson, and the following month, he anchored a special “Dateline” tribute to legendary singer, actress and producer Whitney Houston, who had died suddenly the day before. In March 2012, Holt reported from Sanford, Florida on the latest in the Trayvon Martin case and in June 2012 – as part of “Dateline’s” Emmy award-winning series, “America Now” – Holt reported on suburban poverty in America, sharing the shocking and personal stories of families confronting poverty for the very first time. Before becoming co-anchor of “Weekend Today,” Holt anchored “Lester Holt Live,” a daily news show on MSNBC in which he covered breaking news and provided news updates and analysis. Holt has also served as the lead anchor for daytime news and breaking news coverage on MSNBC. He has served as a primary anchor for MSNBC’s coverage of the biggest news events of the last several years, including Operation Iraqi Freedom and the war in Afghanistan, and he was the lead daytime anchor for MSNBC’s coverage of Decision 2000. Holt also served as anchor of “Countdown: Iraq,” a nightly news telecast concentrating on the latest developments surrounding the war with Iraq, from October 2002 through March 2003. The award-winning broadcast journalist came to MSNBC from WBBM-TV in Chicago, where he spent 14 years. His duties at WBBM-TV included anchoring the evening news. Holt not only worked at the anchor desk in Chicago, but he also reported extensively from trouble spots around the world including Iraq, Northern Ireland, Somalia, El Salvador and Haiti. He has contributed to the CBS News broadcast “48 Hours,” earning a 1990 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award for his work on “48 Hours: No Place Like Home.” In 2010, Holt was part of the “Today” anchor team that won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Morning Program. Previously, Holt worked as a reporter at WCBS-TV in New York City from 1981-82. In 1982 he transferred to sister station KCBS- TV (then KNXT) in Los Angeles as a reporter and weekend anchor and returned to WCBS-TV a year later as a reporter and weekend anchor. Holt studied government at California State University in Sacramento. He resides in New York City with his wife. First Amendment Awards Dinner | RTDNA.ORG 9 First Amendment Service Award This award honors news professionals in local or network news who work in an off-air, management capacity. Through 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 and credibility. 2014 HONOREE ROBIN SPROUL Robin Sproul has been vice president and Washington bureau chief for ABC News since March 1993. She is responsible for the editorial supervision and management of the network’s largest bureau, oversees news coverage of all Washington beats and stories, and serves as the network’s liaison to the federal government on news policy matters.
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