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Twenty-Third
Annual Celebration
First Amendment
Awards dinner
Radio Television Digital News Foundation
Congratulations
to the
2013 RTDNF
First Amendment Honorees
Twitter, Inc.
Lloyd Siegel
NBC News
Partnerships
Candy Crowley
CNN
Your Friends at RTDNA and rtDNF
Vincent Duffy
RTDNA Chairman
Kevin Benz
RTDNF Chairman
Chris Carl
RTDNA Chairman-elect
Loren Tobia
RTDNA Treasurer
Ed Esposito
RTDNF Treasurer
Mike Cavender
RTDNA/F Executive Director
Barbara Cochran
RTDNA/F President Emeritus
Mark Kraham
Immediate Past RTDNF Chairman
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Bill Roswell
Terry Scott
Dan Shelley
Robert Garcia
Dave Busiek
Cissy Baker
Stacey Woelfel
Jerry Walsh
Janice Gin
Bob Priddy
David Louie
Kathy Walker
Harvey Nagler
Amy Tardif
Andrew Vrees
Mark Willis
Randy Bell
Angie Kucharski
Robert Decherd
A.H. Belo
Corporation
RADIO TELEVISION DIGITAL NEWS FOUNDATION
Program
Welcome
Mike Cavender
RTDNA/F Executive Director
Introduction
Master of Ceremonies
Kevin Benz
RTDNF Chair
Bill Plante
CBS News
Awards Presentation
First Amendment Award
Twitter, Inc.
Award being accepted by Gabriel Stricker, Vice President of Communications
First Amendment Service Award
Lloyd Siegel
Vice President, NBC News Partnerships
Presenter: Alex Wallace, Senior Vice President, NBC News;
Executive Producter, ‘Rock Center with Brian Williams’
Leonard Zeidenberg First Amendment Award
Candy Crowley
Chief Political Correspondent, CNN
Presenter: Gwen Ifill, Senior Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
First Amendment Leadership Award
Robert Decherd
Chairman, President, CEO, A.H. Belo Corporation
Presenter: Michael Valentine, Vice President Content, Belo Corp.
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Expresses sincere thanks to our generous sponsors:
Sponsors
Diamond
Belo Corp.
Platinum
CNN Newsource
Gannett
Hearst Television
Gold
CNN
National Association of Broadcasters
NBC Universal
Wiley Rein, LLP
Silver
ABC News
American Petroleum Institute
CBS News
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Consumer Electronics Association
Investment Company Institute
National Association of Broadcasters
Nielsen
UPS
Friends of the First Amendment
Barbara and John Cochran
Lerman Senter PLLC
Levine Sullivan Koch & Shulz, LLP
Raycom Media
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2013 RTDNA Awards Dinner & Show
October 14, 2013 | Marriott Marquis, New York, NY
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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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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.
Congratulates Candy Crowley and the
First Amendment Award Honorees
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Leonard Zeidenberg
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.
Belo Congratulates
Robert Decherd
On Receiving The
RTDNF First Amendment Award
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RTDNF 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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Proudly Salutes the
2013 RTDNF First Amendment Honorees
Robert Decherd, A.H. Belo Corporation
Candy Crowley, CNN
Lloyd Siegel, NBC News
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The National Association of Broadcasters congratulates
Robert Decherd and the other RTDNF First Amendment
honorees for their exceptional leadership and commitment
to promoting and defending freedom of speech. NAB is
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dedication to protecting this precious freedom.
Past Honorees
2012 – Steve Capus
2011 – David Barrett
2010 – David Westin
2009 – Google Inc.
2008 – Tom Curley
2007 – Roger Ailes
2006 – Belo Corporation, Clear Channerl, Emmis
Communications, Entercom Communications,
Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc., Raycom Media,
Inc., Tribune Broadcasting
2005 – Jim Keelor
2004 – Charles Grassley
2004 – Patrick Leahy
2003 – Floyd Abrams
2002 – Katharine Graham
2001 – Don Hewitt
2000 – R.E. “Ted” Turner
1999 – Bob Wright
1998 – Roone Arledge
1997 – Robert L. Johnson
1996 – Howard Stringer
1995 – Tom Johnson
1994 – James Quello
1993 – Frank Stanton
1992 – Allen Neuhath
2012 – Marci Burdick
2011 – Susana Schuler
2010 – Harvey Nagler
2009 – Susan Grant
2008 – Paula Madison
2007 – Philip S. Balboni
2006 – William Wheatley
2005 – Wendy Walker Whitworth
2004 – Walter Ulloa
2003 – Susan Zirinsky
2002 – Fred Young
2001 – Gary Wordlaw
2000 – Lee Giles
1999 – Marty Haag
1998 – Betty Cole Dukert
2012 – Martha Raddatz
2011 – Wolf Blitzer
2010 – Brian Williams
2009 – Cokie Roberts
2008 – Bob Schieffer
2007 – Bob Woodruff and
Kimberly Dozier
2006 – Gwen Ifill
2005 – Ed Bradley
2004 – Andrea Mitchell
2003 – Judy Woodruff
2002 – Sam Donaldson
2001 – Jim Lehrer
2000 – Diane Sawyer
1999 – Christiane Amanpour
1998 – Mike Wallace
1997 – Jane Pauley
1996 – Carole Simpson
1995 – Walter Cronkite
1994 – David Brinkley
1993 - John Chancellor
1992 – James Snyder
2012 – Jim Bohannon
2010 – Barbara Cochran & Marcellus Alexander
2009 – John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
2008 – Richard Wiley
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Salutes Its 2012-2013
Scholarship & Fellowship Winners
2012-2013 Scholarship Winners
Mike Reynolds Journalism Scholarship
Sarah Sax
University of Southern California
Pete Wilson Scholarship (Undergraduate)
Summer Dashe
Southern Methodist University
Ed Bradley Scholarship
Jacey Sisneros
Pepperdine University
Pete Wilson Scholarship (Graduate)
Casey Capachi
UC Berkley
Carole Simpson Scholarship
Dakarai Turner
DePaul University
Presidents Scholarship
Brandon Goldner
University of Maryland
George Forman Tribute to
Lyndon B. Johnson Scholarship
Cathryn Walker
University of Texas at Austin
Joseph Bruno
Elon University
Lou and Carole Prato Sports Reporting Scholarship
Katie Gillen
University of Florida
Abe Schechter Graduate Scholarship
Heather Martino
CUNY School of Journalism
2012-2013 Fellowship Winners
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 and Fellowship Recipients
Mike Reynolds Journalism Scholarship
Sarah Sax
University of Southern California
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
Ed Bradley Scholarship
Jacey Sisneros
Pepperdine University
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.
Carole Simpson Scholarship
Dakarai Turner
DePaul University
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.
George Foreman Tribute to Lyndon B. Johnson Scholarship
Cathryn Walker
University of Texas at Austin
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.
Lou and Carole Sports Reporting Scholarship
Katie Gillen
University of Florida
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.
Pete Wilson Scholarship (undergraduate)
Summer Dashe
Southern Methodist University
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.
Pete Wilson Scholarship (Graduate)
Casey Capachi
UC Berkley
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
University of Maryland
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 awardwinning 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 Bruno
Elon University
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.
Abe Schechter Graduate Scholarship
Heather martino
CUNY School of Journalism
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.
N.S. Bienstock Fellowship
Alexis Morgan
Centre County Report
Columbia University (Masters Program)
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.
Jaque I. Minnotte Health Reporting Fellowship
Lara Salahi
ABC News
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.
Michele Clark Fellowship
Rosa Flores
WBRZ-TV
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.
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First Amendment Dinner Committee
Kevin Benz, Chair
Austin, TX
Bill McCloskey
Bethesda, MD
Hugo Balta
National Association of Hispanic
Journalists
Kathy Kirby
Wiley Rein
Marci Burdick
Schurz Communications
Mark Kraham
WHAG-TV
Janice S. Gin
KTVU-TV
Stacey Woelfel
KOMU-TV
Harvey Nagler
CBS Radio
Barbara Cochran
University of Missouri
Bob Butler
KCBS Radio, National Association
of Black Journalists
Fred Young
Hearst
Meghan Pianta
NBC
Edie Emery
CNN
Ed Esposito
Rubber City Radio Group
Dan Shelley
Radio One, Inc.
Guy Kerr
A.H. Belo Corp
David Louie
KGO-TV
Steve Jones
ABC News Radio
Mission
The 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
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Board of Directors
Vincent Duffy
RTDNA Chairman
Michigan Radio
Kevin Benz
RTDNF Chairman
Austin, TX
Chris Carl
RTDNA Chairman – Elect
WDEL - AM
Ed Esposito
RTDNF Secretary/Treasurer
Rubber City Radio Group
Mike Cavender
Executive Director
RTDNA/F
Loren Tobia
RTDNA Treasurer
AccuWeather
Kathy Walker
KOA Radio
Mark Kraham
WHAG-TV
Brandon Mercer
KTXL, Fox 40 Sacramento
Amy Tardif
WGCU-FM
Mark Willis
Sirius/XM Radio
Terry Scott
The Canadian Press
Carlton Houston
KTUL News Channel 8
Sean McGarvy
FOX News Channel
Jam Sadar
WLNS-TV
Dan Shelley
Radio One, Inc.
Randy Bell
WMSI-FM WQJQ-FM
WJDX-AM
Jerry Walsh
Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc.
Andrew Vrees
WCVB-TV
Bill Roswell
KYW Newsradio
David Louie
KGO-TV
Janice S. Gin
KTVU-TV
Col. Barney Oldfield, USAF (1909-2003)
RTDNF Founder
Congratulations to our friend,
Robert Decherd
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Chairman of
Belo Corp. and A.H. Belo Corporation, on receiving the
First Amendment Leadership Award for his significant
contributions to protecting freedom of the press.
We salute Robert and all of tonight’s honorees for their
work and dedication to protecting the First Amendment.
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