April 19, 2007: FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps was the keynote for a ceremony celebrating winners of the 2007 USC Annenberg Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism. The ceremony was preceded by a colloquium on Politics As Television/Television As Politics, including ABC News' Brian Ross, the reporter who broke the Mark Foley story. Read about the winners. Read Copps' remarks.
September 27, 2005: Legendary broadcaster Walter Cronkite gave remarks honoring winners of the 2005 USC Annenberg Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism at a ceremony on the University of Southern California campus. Read the press release. Read Cronkite's remarks.
September 26-28, 2005: USC Annenberg's Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism convened a special three-day symposium on political journalism featuring the 2005 Cronkite Award winners. Beyond the Sound Bite: Politics and Public Affairs for TV explored anonymous sourcing, campaign finance and many other facets of covering politics. Read about the winners.
April 8, 2003: Las Vegas. The prestigious USC Annenberg Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism was presented at a ceremony in during RTNDA @ NAB, the premier conference and exhibition for radio and television news. The winners included Hearst-Argyle Television; NBC News’ "Meet the Press"; WFAA-TV, Dallas; KING-TV, Seattle; Wisconsin Public Television; KMTV, Omaha; Nebraska ETV Network; News 8 Austin (TX); Jay Warren at WSLS-TV, Roanoke, VA; Randy Shandobil at KTVU-TV, Oakland, CA; and WCPO-TV, Cincinnati. Read the press release. Read the transcript.
April 20, 2001: Washington,
D.C. Examples of Excellence: The Best in 2000 Broadcast TV Political
Coverage. Moderator: Linda Douglass, ABC News. Panelists included:
Jay DeDapper and John Sparks, WNBC-TV, Robert Mak, KING Seattle,
Candy Altman, Group News Executive, Hearst-Argyle, Ken Bode,
Northwestern University, Paul Taylor, Alliance for Better Campaigns,
and Norm Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute. --National
Press Club, Washington, D. C.
April 20, 2001: Washington, D.C., Awards Dinner for the
Walter Cronkite USC Annenberg Award for
Excellence in Broadcast Political Coverage. The award was
presented at a dinner to honor television networks, local
television stations, and individuals for political coverage
which excelled at informing viewers about their electoral choices
in 2000. Dinner program featured Walter
Cronkite, Norman Lear, special
guest Katharine Graham, The Washington
Post Company, John Cochran, ABC News Correspondent, Phil Jones,
CBS News Correspondent, and Paula Madison, General Manager of
KNBC-TV of Los Angeles. Four Season Hotel, Washington, D. C.
August 14-17, 2000: Los Angeles. The Reliable Resources project created Democracy Row – a unique tradeshow celebrating democracy and highlighting the importance of voter information, at the Los Angeles Convention Center during the Democratic National Convention. Democracy Row was an exposition of over 50 non-partisan organizations that are working to improve the quality, quantity, diversity and availability of reliable information about political candidates, campaigns and issues. Norman Lear officiated at the official ribbon-cutting ceremony. Read
the press release.
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