Dean Joan Konner of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism will receive the 1995 Distinguished Broadcast Journalism Educator Award Wednesday, Aug. 9, at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Washington, D.C.

The award honors an educator who has made significant contributions to electronic journalism education and is presented by the Radio-Television Journalism Division of the Association. As dean and as a member of the Accrediting Committee of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, Ms. Konner has advocated electronic journalism programs that match the strength and values of newspaper and magazine programs in journalism schools.

An award-winning executive and producer for public television and NBC News before being named dean of the Graduate School of Journalism in 1988, Ms. Konner has won the most prestigious broadcasting prizes for her work, including 12 Emmys, the George Foster Peabody Award and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. As dean, she also serves as publisher of Columbia Journalism Review.

Before coming to Columbia, Ms. Konner was president, executive producer and partner with Bill Moyers in Public Affairs Television Inc., an independent production company, which produced all of Mr. Moyers' programs for public television, including "In Search of the Constitution," "God and Politics," "The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis," and "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth."

Ms. Konner joined WNET in 1977 as executive producer for national public affairs programs. For three years she served as executive producer of "Bill Moyers' Journal." From 1981 to 1984 she was vice president, director of programming and executive producer for WNET's Metropolitan Division. Under her leadership the station earned 11 Emmys.

Before joining WNET, she was producer, writer and director for NBC News for 12 years, during which she produced documentaries on a wide range of issues, including American foreign policy, radioactive waste and marijuana use. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia's Journalism School, she began her journalism career as a reporter, editorial writer and columnist for The Record of Hackensack, N.J.

As Journalism dean, she has been active on several committees of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and she spearheaded the establishment of a professional journalism education program at Charles University in Prague.

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