Posted September 20, 2005 |
Contact: Geoffrey Baum, (213) 821-1491
LOS ANGELES, September 20, 2005—Legendary broadcaster
Walter Cronkite will give remarks honoring winners of the
2005 USC Annenberg Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism at an awards ceremony to be held Tuesday, September 27, 2005.
The Cronkite Awards, which celebrate outstanding work from national, local, public and cable networks for innovative, issue-based coverage of the 2004 election campaigns, will be moderated by ABC News correspondent
Judy Muller. On Monday, September 26, CNN anchor
Aaron Brown will give a keynote speech at a special event for Cronkite winners and select broadcast fellows taking part in a symposium on political journalism convened by USC Annenberg’s Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism.
The biennial Cronkite Awards have been administered since 2000 by USC Annenberg's Norman Lear Center. The winners of the 2005 awards are:
Station
Group:
Hearst-Argyle Television
Broadcast
Network:
NBC News’ "Meet the Press"
Local
Station, Large Market (three winners)
- WCVB, Boston
- WFAA, Dallas
- WFLA, Tampa, Fla.
Local
Station, Medium Market:
Wisconsin Public Television
Local
Station, Small Market:
KY3, Springfield, Mo.
Local
Cable News Station:
6News, Lawrence, Kan.
Individual Achievement (three winners)
- Robert Mak (reporter) and Mike Cate (producer), KING-TV, Seattle
- Katie Moore, KOAA-TV, Colorado Springs, Colo.
- Randy Shandobil, KTVU-TV, Oakland, Calif.
As part of their award, the 2005 Cronkite winners will participate as senior fellows at a special, three-day symposium on political journalism being convened September 26-28, 2005, on the USC campus. The USC Annenberg Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism symposium, titled
"Beyond the Soundbite: Covering Politics and Public Affairs for TV," will evaluate the current state of political broadcast news and present ideas for combating high-pressure stakes to produce compelling, meaningful coverage.
At a related event on the evening of September 26, 2005,
Aaron Brown will give a candid speech commenting on the role of the broadcast journalist and profession in covering political campaigns in an era of political negativity and "conglomeratizing," followed by his recommendations for what the industry needs to do to get better.
In addition to giving remarks at the Cronkite Awards ceremony
Walter Cronkite will participate in a Q&A session with USC Annenberg students at 4:00 pm on September 27.
For more information about the Walter Cronkite Awards, or for press inquiries, please visit
www.reliableresources.org. For more information on the Western Knight Center symposium, please visit
www.wkconline.org /index.php/seminars/futureindex.
The Norman Lear Center
The Norman Lear Center is a multidisciplinary research center that explores the implications of the convergence of entertainment, commerce and society. From its base in the USC Annenberg School for Communication, the Lear Center builds bridges between faculty who study aspects of entertainment, media and culture. Beyond campus, it bridges the gap between the entertainment industry and academia, and between them and the public. For more information, please visit
www.learcenter.org.
The Western Knight Center
The Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism (WKC) offers competitive fellowships to mid-career journalists for short, intense seminars on timely topics critical to the interests of the western United States and beyond. WKC is a partnership of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. The program is funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. For more information, please visit
http://www.wkconline.org.
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Located in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California, the Annenberg School for Communication is among the nation’s leading institutions devoted to the study of journalism and communication and their impact on politics, culture and society. Annenberg offers BA, MA and PhD degrees in journalism, communication and public relations. For more information, please visit
annenberg.usc.edu.
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