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FIRST AMENDMENT LEADERSHIP AWARD Stanley S. Hubbard, Executive Chairman, Chief Executive Oficer and President, Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. Stanley E. Hubbard, Founder, Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. Presenter: Marvin Rosenberg, J.D., Holland & Knight, retired. SPECIAL MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO DAVID GILKEY FIRST AMENDMENT SERVICE AWARD Steve Jones Vice President and General Manager, ABC News Radio Presenter: Robin Sproul, Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief, ABC News SPECIAL MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO GWEN IFILL LEONARD ZEIDENBERG FIRST AMENDMENT AWARD Bill Whitaker 60 Minutes Correspondent, CBS News Presenter: Jeff Fager, Executive Producer, 60 Minutes RTDNF LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Nina Totenberg Legal Affairs Correspondent, NPR News Presenter: Michael Oreskes, Senior Vice President of News and Editorial Director, NPR Text GIVE to 202-471-1949 | 3 RADIO TELEVISION DIGITAL NEWS FOUNDATION ExpressesAPPRECIATION TO OURSincere SPONSORS 4 | 2017 First Amendment Awards Sponsors DIAMOND Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. PLATINUM Hearst Television National Association of Broadcasters National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation GOLD CNN CNN Newsource TEGNA SILVER ABC News Bienstock, A United Talent Agency Company CBS News H+K Strategies Knight Foundation NBC News Nexstar Media Group NPR SAG-AFTRA Sinclair Broadcast Group Skyview Networks Wiley Rein, LLP Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP FRIENDS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT Center for Audit Quality General Motors Magid Text GIVE to 202-471-1949 | 5 Innovator. Leader. Friend. NBC News, NBC Affiliate Relations and Affiliate Marketing salute Stan Hubbard as the recipient of the 2017 RTDNF First Amendment Leadership Award. 6 | 2017 First Amendment Awards Master of of Ceremonies CHRIS MATTHEWS Best-Selling Author and Host of Hardball with Chris Matthews on MSNBC Chris Matthews has been following American politics since the irst Eisenhower campaign. As a very young teenager, he became enthralled with the historic rivalry of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. It was a time of big downtown rallies and ticker tape parades on Wall Street, when supporters wore boater hats and bright campaign buttons. Hardly a decade later he was engaged in American politics professionally. Back home from the Peace Corps in Africa, he was working in the US senate. Then came his tour in the White House as a presidential speechwriter, followed by his front-row seat as top aide to the legendary Speaker of the House, Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Jr. In the late 1980s, Chris switched to full-time journalism, serving as Washington Bureau Chief for the San Francisco Examiner. In this capacity he covered some of the great historic events of the late 20th century, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the irst all-races election in South Africa. He began his career on television in 1994 as host of a two-hour nightly program on the NBC-owned America’s Talking network. Three years later, he launched “Hardball,” now on MSNBC, which was the title of his best-selling handbook on real-life politics published in 1988. He has been on the air every weekday night since. In all the years Chris has been involved in the country’s public life he’s kept an abiding faith in electoral politics, his quadrennial hope that the American people will make the best judgment on who should lead. He has kept that faith through war and peace, good times and bad, through great leaders and not-so-great. He has never lost his vigorous love of democracy and how it can serve to make this country, through all its challenges, a more perfect union. He is the author of six best-selling books. They are, “Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero,”“Hardball: How Politics is Played, Told by One Who Knows the Game;”“Kennedy & Nixon: The Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America;”“Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think;”“American: Beyond our Grandest Notions;” and “Life’s a Campaign.” His most recent best-selling book, “Tip and The Gipper: When Politics Worked,” is a magniicent personal history of a time when two great political opponents served together for the beneit of the country. He is married to Kathleen Matthews, Executive Vice President of Marriott International. Text GIVE to 202-471-1949 | 7 CONGRATULATES OUR COLLEAGUES MARK HALPERIN AND JOHN HEILEMANN ON RECEIVING THE FIRST AMENDMENT AWARD WE’RE PROUD TO SUPPORT THE IMPORTANT WORK OF THE RADIO TELEVISION DIGITAL NEWS FOUNDATION. ©2017 Showtime Networks Inc. All rights reserved. SHOWTIME “The Circus of Showtime trademarks Networks Inc., a CBS Company. marks registered and related are of All Time”: ©Showtime Networks Upset Inc. All rights reserved. Political Inside the Greatest Show on Earth” & “Trumped: Political Inside the Greatest Traic: Stephanie Clark First Amendment Award RTDNF recognizes exceptional successes made by the television and radio journalists, and news executives who have made signiicant contributions to the protection of First Amendment freedoms. MARK HALPERIN Creator, Executive Producer, and Co-Host, Showtime’s The Circus; Senior Political Analyst, NBC News and MSNBC; and Co- Author, New York Times bestsellers Game Change and Double Down. Mark Halperin has long been one of the most respected chroniclers of American politics, having covered eight presidential campaigns during his nearly thirty-year career as a political journalist. Halperin served as co-managing editor of Bloomberg Politics and co-host of With All Due Respect, a daily news analysis show on Bloomberg TV and MSNBC, during the 2016 election cycle. He is also a regular contributor to NBC News’s Today program, MSNBC’s Morning Joe, and Charlie Rose on PBS. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Halperin served as editor-at-large and senior political analyst for Time magazine and as political director of ABC News. JOHN HEILEMANN Creator, Executive Producer, and Co-Host, Showtime’s The Circus; Senior Political Analyst, NBC News and MSNBC; and Co- Author, New York Times bestsellers Game Change and Double Down. One of America’s most insightful and wide-ranging print and broadcast journalists, John Heilemann has covered politics, business, and culture for twenty-ive years in the U.S. and abroad. During the 2016 election cycle, he was co-managing editor of Bloomberg Politics and co-host of Bloomberg TV and MSNBC’s With All Due Respect. Prior to that, Heilemann served as New York magazine’s national affairs editor and as a staff writer for The New Yorker, Wired, and The Economist. He is a regular contributor to MSNBC’s Morning Joe and Charlie Rose, and a frequent guest on CBS This Morning, Face the Nation, and This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Together, Halperin and Heilemann are the co-authors of The New York Times No. 1 best seller Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, widely hailed as the deinitive account of the historic 2008 presidential election, and its New York Times best-selling sequel, Double Down: Game Change 2012.