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Charlie Rose honored with the National Press Club's Fourth Estate Award
Charlie Rose says he has many people to thank for the success he has had as a television journalist. Rose is the 42nd winner of the National Press Club's Fourth Estate Award, which honors journalists who have made significant contributions to their field. Rose hosts the interview program "Charlie Rose" on PBS and also is a co-anchor on "CBS This Morning" and a contributing correspondent to "60 Minutes." Rose said winning the Fourth Estate Award means "everything" to him.
Type: Media
Going Digital Doesn't Pay the Bills, Journalists Say at NPC Forum
NORMAN, Okla. – Ed Kelley, editor of the Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, said he is scrambling to move his news operation into online video as quickly as possible, even though the bulk of his organization's income still comes from advertising in the print newspaper. “Two years ago, we didn’t think video was even on the horizon,” Kelley told an NPC forum co-sponsored by the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Now, he said, the newspaper has a broadcast studio that would rival a television station and a dozen people working on the video side of the news…
Type: News
BSO's Alsop Transforms Symphony and Makes Gender History, Too
Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and first woman to have that job with a major American orchestra, spoke humorously and passionately to her NPC Luncheon audience Monday about the “transformational power” of music in her life. "My parents were both professional musicians,” she said. “And because of that, my world was defined, colored and transformed by music. When I was a 9-year-old girl living in New York City, my father took me to a Young Peoples Concert at the New York Philharmonic. That was a day I will never forget because I fell under the spell of…
Type: News
New J School Requires Flexibility, Transparency, AZ State U Dean Says
PHOENIX – Constructing a new journalism building in this time of turmoil in the news business required planning versatility into the space so that it can change as journalism changes, Christopher Callahan, dean of Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said Monday. The school is celebrating a weeklong “Cronkite Week” to honor the opening of its 100,000-square-foot building in downtown Phoenix. It invited the National Press Club to present its centennial documentary, “The National Press Club: A Century of Headlines,” as the opening event. “While…
Type: News
Prime Minister Says Turkey Can Be Guide to Financial Recovery
With its proximity to geopolitical hotspots like Iraq and Iran, Turkey often is a factor in international security developments. But Turkey also can provide leadership on the global financial crisis, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a simultaneously translated Newsmaker on Friday, Nov. 14. Erdogan touted Turkey’s recovery from a severe economic setback in 2001-02. The country instituted structural reforms that have resulted in strong growth. Its economy has more than tripled in size in less than five years; income per capita grew from $7,214 in 2006 to $9,305 in 2007. Exports have…
Type: News
Hoyer Promises Dems Will Govern Responsibly, Work to Restore Economy
"Minorities don't win elections, and majorities often lose them," said Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), who spoke at Nov. 18 Newsmaker about the agenda for the 111th Congress and President-elect Obama. Now that Democrats are a national party for the first time in decades, "we must govern from the middle," he said, adding that "we will govern responsibly." American voters found Republican ideas wanting on Nov. 4, and it's possible that Republicans will now move toward a narrow agenda, Hoyer said. He said Congress and Obama are focused on restoring the health of the economy, but…
Type: News
HUD Secretary Announces Help for Distressed Mortgage Borrowers
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston announced new federal efforts to help distressed borrowers refinance their mortgages at a Club luncheon Nov. 19. Preston said changes to the HOPE for Homeowners program will reduce costs and expand eligibility for consumers and lenders alike. More homeowners will be able to get fixed-rate 40-year mortgages under a simplified progress. Despite the changes, Preston said, Congress needs to make statutory revisions to help HUD and its Federal Housing Administration help lenders and borrowers deal with the current mortgage crisis. He…
Type: News
New Model for Journalism, But Threats to First Amendment
SAN DIEGO – The Voice of San Diego, an online news and investigative reporting service, provides a new model for delivering serious journalism, a National Press Club forum was told Tuesday. But new online journalism combined with the decline in resources for traditional media are threatening First Amendment and freedom of information rights. “Our whole purpose in being formed was to treat journalism as a public service,” said Scott Lewis, executive editor of the Voice of San Diego. “What we will do is raise enough money to provide that public service. But the days of lining the pockets of…
Type: News
Club Salutes Journalists Who Risked Their Lives
The Club hosted some of the most courageous journalists in the world at an event Nov. 20. The Club’s Press Freedom Committee co-sponsored an annual news conference with the Committee to Protect Journalists to tell the stories of the reporters who will receive the CPJ’s 2008 International Press Freedom Awards on Nov. 25 in New York City. John M. Donnelly, the Club Board of Governors’ vice chairman and its liaison to the Press Freedom Committee, kicked off the press conference by saying that press freedom is a core mission of the Club. Then came the words of men and women who risk their lives…
Type: News
Foreign Correspondents Assess Obama Victory
Barack Obama’s victory was proof of the American dream, a nation where everything is possible, foreign correspondents said during a discussion Nov. 19 about the view of the U.S. election through the eyes of other countries. A panel of foreign correspondents, organized by the Club’s International Correspondents Committee, discussed the foreign reaction to Obama’s election and anticipation for its impact on foreign affairs in a forum organized by the International Correspondents Committee. Kyodo News correspondent Hiroki Sugita said foreign governments can no longer criticize U.S. democracy…
Type: News