For those local to the DC area, you won’t want to miss this event.
Tickets & Info: Washington Link / (202) 312-1581 The American News Women’s Club 15th Gala & Helen Thomas Award DinnerTo Honor Katie Couric ~ May 20, 2009 Washington, D.C. (May 7, 2009) – The American News Women’s Club (www.anwc.org) will honor CBS Evening News Anchor & Managing Editor Katie Couric with the “ANWC Helen Thomas Award for Excellence in Journalism”, May 20, 2009. Helen Thomas will present the award in Washington. Legendary ABC-TV newsman Sam Donaldson will be Master of Ceremonies, making hay with a stellar lineup of “roasters and toasters” that includes White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod; Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee; CBS Senior Political Analyst Jeff Greenfield; Republican Strategist Nicolle Wallace; CBS Pentagon Correspondent David Martin; and CBS Evening News Executive Producer Rick Kaplan. The dinner, chaired by Janis Lamar, will be held at the Fairmont Hotel at 24th & M Streets, NW. The evening begins at 6:30 P.M. with a cocktail reception. Tickets $250/ Tables from $3,000. Proceeds support ANWC education programs and journalism scholarships for women. A native of Arlington, Virginia, who graduated from the Arlington County Public Schools and the University of Virginia, Katie Couric has come a long way since her days at The Cavalier, the UVA student newspaper. Her remarkable professional career began at ABC News in Washington, D.C. After jobs at CNN and a Miami television station, she came back to Washington as a reporter for the NBC affiliate, WRC-TV, where she won an Associated Press award and an Emmy. She joined NBC News in 1989, soon finding her way to “The Today Show” as a national political correspondent. By 1991 she had earned the co-anchor spot next to Bryant Gumbel. She would fill that spot for the next 15-years. Since her groundbreaking first appearance as the anchor of the “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” in September, 2006, Couric has covered all the biggest news stories of the day. From the Virginia Tech shootings to live coverage of the war in Iraq to her memorable series of interviews during the last presidential campaign, she has been at the front lines. She is a role model for women in journalism everywhere, and the American News Women’s Club is delighted to honor her in 2009. #### The American News Women’s Club is a professional association for women in journalism and the communications professions. Founded in 1932 by women reporters and writers employed by Washington’s newspapers, today membership has expanded to include broadcast and freelance journalists, editors, professional writers, illustrators and cartoonists, and new media and public relations professionals. With women still under-represented at the highest levels of news editing, producing, and management, ANWC serves its diverse membership with signature newsmaker programs, ongoing professional development, and senior level networking. Past recipients of the “ANWC Helen Thomas Award for Excellence in Journalism or Outstanding Public Service” include Helen Thomas (1993); Catherine Filene Schouse (1994); Sarah McClendon (1995); Sam Donaldson (1996); Walter Cronkite (1997); Andrea Mitchell (1998); Larry King (1999); Jim Lehrer (2000); Al Neuharth (2001); Judy Woodruff (2002); Cokie Roberts (2003); Bob Schieffer (2004); Sally Quinn and Ben Bradlee (2005); and Brian Lamb (2006).
