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Four prominent graduates of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism will receive the 2006 Journalism Alumni Award, the Alumni Association's highest honor. The Alumni Awards are presented annually for either a distinguished journalism career in any medium, an outstanding single journalistic accomplishment, a notable contribution to journalism education or an achievement in related fields. The awards are highly prized because they represent recognition of excellence by professional peers.
The 2006 Alumni Awards will be presented on Friday, April 21, during the Journalism School's Alumni Weekend.
This year's winners are: Alex Belida '71, managing editor of the news division of Voice of America; Howard Fineman '73, Newsweek 's chief political correspondent; Tom Goldstein '69, director of the mass communications program at University of California at Berkeley and former dean of the Journalism School, and Robin Reisig '68, professor of journalism at Columbia and former reporter at The Village Voice and The Washington Post .
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| Alex Belida |
Alex Belida, now managing editor of the news division of Voice of America (VOA), served as a reporter for the VOA in Africa covering the civil war turmoil in Somalia, genocide in Rwanda and famine and war in Sudan, among other dangerous assignments. In 2000, Belida returned to the United States as Pentagon correspondent and later as senior editor in the VOA newsroom.
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| Howard Fineman |
Howard Fineman, Newsweek's chief political correspondent, started his career at The Louisville Courier-Journal covering environmental and energy issues before joining the paper's Washington bureau. However, for nearly 25 years, Fineman has been reporting and writing political stories for Newsweek that provided insight into the maneuvering of Capitol Hill and White House politicians.
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| Thomas Goldstein |
Tom Goldstein, a former dean at two of the nation's premier journalism schools, Columbia and the University of California at Berkeley, and now director of Berkeley's mass communications program, has been a reporter at The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times . Goldstein also has served as editor and media writer at Newsday as well as a frequent press critic and watchdog. During his five-year tenure at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, he lengthened the school year to 10 months, launched an interdisciplinary doctoral program in communications and substantially increased the school's endowment.
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| Robin Reisig |
Robin Reisig, a dedicated teacher since 1983 who makes her students at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism her top priority. She has covered the civil rights movement, the women's movement and antiwar protests in a long and varied career as a reporter at the Southern Courier and The Village Voice, as assistant editor on the opinion pages of Newsday and as a contributor to Life, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Nation and other publications.
Previous Columbia Journalism Alumni Award recipients include: political commentator Molly Ivins '67, CNN's Myron Kandel '53, The Washington Post 's Dorothy Gilliam '61, CBS News' Steve Kroft '75, Newsweek 's Richard M. Smith '70 and the Associated Press' Lou Boccardi '59.
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