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Vincent DuffyRTDNA Chairman

Kevin BenzRTDNF Chairman

Chris CarlRTDNA Chairman-elect

Loren TobiaRTDNA Treasurer

Ed EspositoRTDNF Treasurer

Mike CavenderRTDNA/F Executive Director

Barbara CochranRTDNA/F President Emeritus

Mark KrahamImmediate Past RTDNF Chairman

Bill RoswellTerry ScottDan Shelley

Robert GarciaDave BusiekCissy Baker

Stacey WoelfelJerry WalshJanice GinBob PriddyDavid Louie

Kathy WalkerHarvey Nagler

Amy TardifAndrew VreesMark WillisRandy Bell

Angie Kucharski

Lloyd SiegelNBC News

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Candy CrowleyCNN

Robert DecherdA.H. Belo

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Award being accepted by Gabriel Stricker, Vice President of Communications

FiRst AmeNDmeNt seRvice AWARDLloyd Siegel

Vice President, NBC News PartnershipsPresenter: Alex Wallace, Senior Vice President, NBC News;

Executive Producter, ‘Rock Center with Brian Williams’

leoNARD ZeiDeNbeRg FiRst AmeNDmeNt AWARDCandy Crowley

Chief Political Correspondent, CNNPresenter: Gwen Ifill, Senior Correspondent, PBS NewsHour

FiRst AmeNDmeNt leADeRship AWARDRobert Decherd

Chairman, President, CEO, A.H. Belo CorporationPresenter: Michael Valentine, Vice President Content, Belo Corp.

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RTDNF recognizes exceptional success made by an individual or organization that has played a significant role in dissemination of news and information.

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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.

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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.


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, Meet the Press, 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 Cleveland 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 John Chancellor and Tom Brokaw. 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 breaking news 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 Columbia University 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.

First Amendment Service Award


Congratulates Candy Crowley and the First Amendment Award Honorees

Leonard ZeidenbergFirst Amendment Award

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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 Hillary Clinton, 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 Newt Gingrich, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Rep. Ron Paul and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.

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 Gracie Allen 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, Bill Clinton, Howard Dean, Bob Dole, Jesse Jackson, Edward Kennedy, John Kerry, Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan, among others. Since the presidential nomination of Jimmy Carter, 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 United States 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 Metromedia radio station WASH. She has served as White House correspondent for the Associated Press, 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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First Amendment Leadership AwardRTDNF 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 The Dallas Morning News, 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 Peabody Awards 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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Past Honorees

2012 – Martha Raddatz2011 – Wolf Blitzer2010 – Brian Williams2009 – Cokie Roberts2008 – Bob Schieffer2007 – Bob Woodruff and Kimberly Dozier2006 – Gwen Ifill

2005 – Ed Bradley2004 – Andrea Mitchell2003 – Judy Woodruff2002 – Sam Donaldson2001 – Jim Lehrer2000 – Diane Sawyer1999 – Christiane Amanpour1998 – Mike Wallace

1997 – Jane Pauley1996 – Carole Simpson1995 – Walter Cronkite1994 – David Brinkley1993 - John Chancellor1992 – James Snyder

2012 – Marci Burdick2011 – Susana Schuler2010 – Harvey Nagler2009 – Susan Grant2008 – Paula Madison2007 – Philip S. Balboni

2006 – William Wheatley2005 – Wendy Walker Whitworth2004 – Walter Ulloa2003 – Susan Zirinsky2002 – Fred Young2001 – Gary Wordlaw

2000 – Lee Giles1999 – Marty Haag1998 – Betty Cole Dukert

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2012 – Steve Capus2011 – David Barrett2010 – David Westin2009 – Google Inc.2008 – Tom Curley2007 – Roger Ailes2006 – Belo Corporation, Clear Channerl, Emmis Communications, Entercom Communications, Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc., Raycom Media, Inc., Tribune Broadcasting2005 – Jim Keelor2004 – Charles Grassley2004 – Patrick Leahy

2003 – Floyd Abrams2002 – Katharine Graham2001 – Don Hewitt2000 – R.E. “Ted” Turner1999 – Bob Wright1998 – Roone Arledge1997 – Robert L. Johnson1996 – Howard Stringer1995 – Tom Johnson1994 – James Quello1993 – Frank Stanton1992 – Allen Neuhath

2012 – Jim Bohannon2010 – Barbara Cochran & Marcellus Alexander2009 – John S. and James L. Knight Foundation2008 – Richard Wiley


saLutes its 2012-2013schoLarship & FeLLoWship Winners

Mike Reynolds Journalism ScholarshipSarah Sax University of Southern California

Ed Bradley Scholarship Jacey Sisneros Pepperdine University

Carole Simpson Scholarship Dakarai Turner DePaul University

George Forman Tribute toLyndon B. Johnson ScholarshipCathryn Walker University of Texas at Austin

Lou and Carole Prato Sports Reporting Scholarship Katie Gillen University of Florida

Pete Wilson Scholarship (Undergraduate)Summer DasheSouthern Methodist University

Pete Wilson Scholarship (Graduate)Casey Capachi UC Berkley

Presidents ScholarshipBrandon Goldner University of Maryland

Presidents ScholarshipJoseph Bruno Elon University

Abe Schechter Graduate ScholarshipHeather Martino CUNY School of Journalism

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

2012-2013 scholARship WiNNeRs

2012-2013 FelloWship WiNNeRs


2012-2013 schoLarship and FeLLoWship recipients

Sarah SaxUniversity of Southern California

Jacey SisnerosPepperdine University

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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

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 Los Angeles 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.


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Dakarai TurnerDePaul University

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Cathryn WalkerUniversity of Texas at Austin

Katie GillenUniversity of Florida

Dakarai is an undergraduate student majoring in broadcast journalism at DePaul University in Chicago. 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.

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.

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.


Summer DasheSouthern Methodist University

Casey CapachiUC Berkley

Brandon GoldnerUniversity of Maryland

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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.

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.

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 Baltimore; 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.


Joseph BrunoElon University

Heather martinoCUNY School of Journalism

Alexis MorganCentre County ReportColumbia University (Masters Program)

pResiDeNts scholARship

Abe schechteR gRADuAte scholARship

N.s. bieNstock FelloWship

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.

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.

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.


Lara SalahiABC News

Rosa FloresWBRZ-TV

JAque i. miNNotte heAlth RepoRtiNg FelloWship

michele clARk FelloWship

Lara Salahi is an award-winning multimedia journalist and contributor to ABC News and the Boston 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 New England area for ABC News shows including Good Morning America 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 Emerson College. Lara travels extensively and is fluent in Armenian, Arabic, and French.

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 Peter Jennings 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.


Kevin Benz, ChairAustin, TX

Bill McCloskeyBethesda, MD

Kathy KirbyWiley Rein

Mark KrahamWHAG-TV

Stacey WoelfelKOMU-TV

Barbara CochranUniversity of Missouri

Bob ButlerKCBS Radio, National Association

of Black Journalists

Hugo BaltaNational Association of Hispanic

Journalists

Marci BurdickSchurz Communications

Janice S. Gin KTVU-TV

Harvey NaglerCBS Radio

Fred YoungHearst

Meghan PiantaNBC

Edie EmeryCNN

Ed EspositoRubber City Radio Group

Dan ShelleyRadio One, Inc.

Guy KerrA.H. Belo Corp

David LouieKGO-TV

Steve JonesABC News Radio

First Amendment Dinner Committee

MissionThe 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


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

Board of Directors

Vincent DuffyRTDNA Chairman

Michigan Radio

Ed EspositoRTDNF Secretary/TreasurerRubber City Radio Group

Kevin BenzRTDNF Chairman

Austin, TX

Mike CavenderExecutive Director

RTDNA/F

Chris CarlRTDNA Chairman – Elect

WDEL - AM

Loren TobiaRTDNA Treasurer

AccuWeather

Kathy Walker KOA Radio

Brandon MercerKTXL, Fox 40 Sacramento

Mark WillisSirius/XM Radio

Carlton Houston KTUL News Channel 8

Jam SadarWLNS-TV

Randy Bell WMSI-FM WQJQ-FM

WJDX-AM

Andrew Vrees WCVB-TV

Bill RoswellKYW Newsradio

Mark KrahamWHAG-TV

Amy TardifWGCU-FM

Terry Scott The Canadian Press

Sean McGarvy FOX News Channel

Dan ShelleyRadio One, Inc.

Jerry WalshNexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc.

David Louie KGO-TV

Janice S. Gin KTVU-TV


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First Amendment Leadership Award for his signi� cant

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