News Briefs - February, 2007

NAMME will honor the following persons at the Annual "Celebration of Diversity" Awards Banquet, March 29, at the JW Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC.

Robert C. Maynard Legend Award
Ed Bradley, 60 Minutes Correspondent, CBS News (awarded posthumously)

Lifetime Achievement Award
Felix Gutierrez, Professor at the Annenberg School of Communication of the University of Southern California and former senior vice president, The Freedom Forum and Newseum

Catalyst Award Broadcast
Curtis Crutchfield, News Director, CTV 76 News, Prince George’s County, MD

Catalyst Award New Media
Retha Hill, Chief Editorial Officer of BET.com and Vice President for Content Development for BET Interactive

Catalyst Award Print
Amol Sharma, Staff Reporter, Technology, The Wall Street Journal

Lawrence Young Breakthrough Award
Sreenath (Sree) Sreenivasan, Dean of Students, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and WNBC-TV technology reporter

Award of Valor
Dr. Prerna Mona Khanna, contributing medical editor, KTVT-CBS 11, Dallas/Fort Worth

Edwina Blackwell Clark, Cox Ohio Publishing, chaired the selection committee. Other members of the committee were Virgil Smith, Gannett Co. Inc., Gerald Alcantar, Fox Diversity Development, Michelle Duke, NAB Education Foundation, J. Wendy Thompson, WZDC—Telemundo 64, Sherman Kizart, Interep and Nihal Mehta, ipsh!

For information on attending the dinner, please contact Nancy Osborn, nosborn@namme.org or 703-854-7179.