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areopenfor the Deadline Nominations Club's annualFirst AmendmentAward, at the Club's which will be presented annualFreedomof Information program in March. The award,now in its l5th year, is given to that individual or organization that showsstrongand continuingefforts freedomof the and sEengthen to preserve pressand the First Amendmentin the areaduring1995. New York menopolitan is Feb. The deadline for nominations I, 1996. may includeprint or broadNominees professional legislators, castjournalists, or ganizations,lawyers, judges, law leaders officials,government enforcement Their andcorporations. and/or businesses effortson behalf of freedomof information must have had direct benefit to or effect in ttre New York City metropolitan
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includingWesrchester County. area, includingthenomietters, Nomination and telephone numinee'sname,address ber as well as a concise,specific stateor organization mentasto why theperson shouldbe sentto the is beingnominated, Club in care of Kay Lockridge(7 East 14rhSr. - Apt, 1620,I.{YC10003-3122). The nominatorshouldincludehis/her number. andtelephone name, address by The recipientwill be determined Club's boardof directors. theDeadline hevious recipientsincludeRobertU. Bob Greene, Brown, RobertJ. Freeman, David Zinman, Norman Schorr, Jerry Nachman,JudgeSol Wachtler,Leonard BurtonBenjamin,Nat Hentoff, Sussman, Judge Lawrence H. Cooke, Floyd Abrams, The American Society of & Authorsand Assemblyman Journalists Steven Sanders.
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The following slate of officers and Executive Council members for 1996 has been proposed for Deadline Club membership consideration: Ant hony, PC P resi dent-R obert Magazine and Stadium Circle Features. Vice Presiderxts-James Barron, The N ew Y ork Ti mes: Jan ell Teubner Crispyn, WHLI Radio; Vicky Penner Katz, SI-INY Stony Brook. Secre tary-David Woods, Marketing Communications. AJJistant SecretariesIra Fine, New York Power Authority; Clare Regan, Staten Island Advance. G it t en, Con Treasurer-Marti n Edison. As sistant Treasurers-Geralyn Lucas, A B C -TV ; Trudy Lieber m an, C onsumer R eports a nd Colum bia Journalism Review. Executive Council-Chaired by imme-
By ANGELATEDESCO It was bad newsfor journalismbreaking at a good time. Fearing a lawsuit, had ordered "60 CBS management Minutes" to kill an interview with a forThe disexecutive. company mer tobacco pute was madepublic on Nov. 9, a day when "60 Minutes" co-editor Mike Wallace was free to speakout about the gatheredto problem with colleagues
into honor him and six other inductees diate past presidentBill Bell, Daily News. theClub's Hall of Fame. Members i ncl ude S am Boyle, The pastpresiReginaldStuart,immediate Associated Press: Rob Calem, Free-lance dent of The Societyof Professional W ri ter; John Mack Car t er , Hear st told the capacitycrowd at Journalists, Magazines; Jordan Goodman, Money is happenSardi's,"this sort of squabble Lam b, WCBS R i ch Magazi ne; members By becoming ing everywhere." FreeLockridge, Kay 88; Newsradio of SPJ,Stuartsaid,they could contribute Pr ediger , C r aig l ance E di torA V ri ter; of efforts on behalf the organization's to (Cont.on p. 3, col. 1)
NBC-TV; Angela Tedesco,NYC School C or' structi on A uthorit y; Richar d W agner, Internati ona l Tr adem ar k Association;and Allan Wolper, Editor & Publisher.
The Advisory Committee will consist of past presidents Betsy Ashton, Author; Steve Dunlop, The Story Painters; and Terry Raskyn, Globe Communications.
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The el ecti on w i l l b e held at t he Holiday Party Dec. 20, with ttre new officers assuming their posts Jan. l, 1996. The Nominations Committee, headedby immediate past president Betsy Ashton, included past presidents Steve Dunlop and Kay Lockridge.
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by Betsy Ashton. The annual organized AwardsDinner wasa record-setter, thanks Ira Fine and SteveBlinn. to co-chairs David Woods cameup with the Brown Bag lunch idea,and it now is a model for others.We've got the Lunch with a lrgend off andrunning.And soon. Two members deserve extra thanks. Marty Gitten is owed big time for his yearsof keepinga sharpeye and sharp pencilon the financialrecords, and every issueof the Deadlineris a reminderthat is Kay Lockridge, editor/reporter/etc., indispensible. assignments, ranging Out-of-.town from OklahomaCity to Yitzhak Rabin's robbedme of a chanceto assassination, But, another sharea coupleof big events. lessonhere,thingswork fine without a personal president's blessing. Anyway, the incoming team for '96 looks like a winner, and Bob Anthony can counton a lot of help. All he has to below his on the do is look to the names That'swhatI did. letterhead. andlet's makeit a Thanks, everybody, greatnew year.
DeadlineClub member Jeanette Johnson, editor of Family Planning Perspectives, acceptsthe Global Media Award for best population journal from Werner Fornos, presi' dent of the Population Institute, sponsor of the award. The av was presentedSept. 15 at the Great Hall of the Peoplein Be[iing, China during the International Women's Conference.
Deadlins Doings
Former DeadlineClub presidentBill Schmitt has been namednews editor of American Metal Market and movedback wherehe to New York from Washington, worked for the Metals PublishingGroup of Chilton Publications,a Capital Cities/ABCcompany. Another former Club president, Christi Harlan, has been named for the Austin Washington correspondent (Texas)American-Statesman after completing a Knight Fellowshipin Law for shewasa at Yale. Previously, Journalists reporterfor the Wall StreetJournalin New York, Dallas and Washingtonand managing editor of the Manhattan Iawyer. Marlene Sanders will anchortwo programs Prime on a new cablechannel, Life Network, beginningnext spring. will continueto leach at the Sanders Schoolof ColumbiaUniversityGraduate wheresheis directorof proJournalism, gramdevelopment.
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By ANGELA TEDESCO Someinsideinformationaboutthejob marketin radio: One--{on't makeany betsaboutjoining an all-newsstation.Therearejust 21 in the United Statestoday, comparedto 40 a decade ago. Two--don't marketyourselfsolely as reporter,writer or on-air tala producer, sell your ability to fill all of ent; instead, these slots. Three--don't counton affiliating with just onestation;today,a pro offersdifferSAVE THESEDATES! Dec.20 - Holiday Wednesday, Party,Player'sClub (16 Gramercy ParkSouttr) 6 p.m. *** Monday,Jan.22,1996 - Get atJeremy'sAle House(254 together FrontSt., SouthSneetSeaport), 6 p.m. *** April 14, Friday, April 12-Sunday, '96-SPJ RegionOneConference, New Brunswick,N.J. (HyattRegency by Investigative Hotel).Co-sponsored Reoorters & Editors. to different stationsin the ent qervices market. same from threekey This was the message players in the industry who spoke with the Club in October:Fred Bennett,vice president andprogramming, of operations Services, New Jersey; ShadowBroadcast executivedirector Rich Larkin, assistant and housecounselto the American Federationof Televisionand Radio Afiists, New York; and Bill Yeager,vice president for of news,sportsand weather Philadelphia. MetroNetworks, They agreedthat, althoughradio has hit bottom, stations unemployment are swimming in a different direction, relying less on staffers and more on to providethem "Metros" and"Shadows" with news,traffic, weather,sportsand segments. otherspecialized The panelistssaid listenersseem on their local that programming unaware from only one is emanating local stations source.For one thing, the stationsdon't tell them. The lead-inis: now, the news from 'Jack Jones,"'not "And now, the (in nine cities,includnewsfrom Shadow ing the Big Apple) or Metro (in 40 the typical lislener cities)." And, because
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Above: Mike Wallace provokes Iaughter from Befsy Ashton while accepting induction into the Hall of Fame. Left: Warren Hoge accepts on behalf of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger. Right: Les Payne called Murray Kempton " one hell of a writer' as he accepted on dre Pulitzer Prize winner's behalf.
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ST. PAUL, MINN.-Brooklyn-based writer Edward Ball, who until recently wasbest*nown for his columnon archibook reviewsand articleson cultecttue, ture for The Village Voice and assorted receiveda coveted glossymagazines, SigmaDelta Chi awardin Octoberat the for the first story SPJnationalconvention he ever did for radio: a 35-minutedocumentaryentitled "The Other History," which aired on National Public Radio March26,1994. grew out of a family The documentary S. in Charleston, reunionBall attended C., in June,1993.The writer grew up in as one of many descendants Charleston of a rice planterwho settledin South i Carolinain 1698. o The planter,Elias Ball, owned 100 q Familiar with the history of his E slaves. prosperous ancestorand the family sto() reunions, ries retold at well-attended a c EdwardBall set out to recoverthe misss who ing historyof the African-Americans on thefamily plantation. hadserved was tlte result The radio documentary of monthsof trackingdown and interb e of thoseslaves. viewing the descendants o s their family stories. Ball recorded expandingthe story for a book to be pubNPR received an avalanche of Giroux. lishedby Farrar,Sftaus, of audio and sold hundreds responses tapesof the program,which later was -Betsy Ashton played on the BBC. Ball said he is
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(Cont. from p.2, col.2) stays tuned to one station, s/he is none the wiser that "Jack Jones" is heard as "Joe Smith" at another point on the diat. "Stations have different demographics, and there's nothing wrong with that," Yeager maintained. Bennett pointed out that news prepared by professionals is preferable to disk jockeys doing 'rip and read' and not doing a very goodjob ofit. "We customize our segments to fit the format of each station, and we sound like part of the show," he added. Yeager and Bennett said their services enable stations to upgrade the quality of their programming and to introduce or increase the number of their news segments. Larkin commented that, although Metro and Shadow pay lower salaries [o their staff members than individual stations did in the past, the salaries the services offer are fair. "The bottom line in the new joumalism is to do more with fewer people," Larkin said, "and it's a lough workload." To the question, "Where is the FCC and what happened to the obligation to pro-
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vide public serviceprogramming?" Larkin replied,"In that respect, the FCC is dead.Today, the FCC grantslicenses to make moneyand looks at EEO tc be the ethsurethat the workforcematches nicity of the listening area.There's less diversity of opinion and less community There'sno requirement, reporting. andno oneis complaining." Will televisionnews go the way of radio news?This is a possibility that no one denied.But, evenas televisionand therewill be new radio news changes, and new jobs. For example, audiences procompanies Yeagersaid, telephone to duce"programs"allowing subscribers dial up the latest news from a cellular phone.Computernetworks offer online newsservices, 20,000 and an estimated peoplelearnedthe verdict in the O. J. he added. Simpson trail via theInternet, The conclusionfrom Larkin was: "Changein the long run is for the best." Bennettsummedup: "Peoplewho adapt will survive." The programwasorganized and modnews eratedby JanellTeubner-Crispyn, directorof WHLI Radio,Long Island.
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