Paul Steiger to Receive Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism

Contact: Doug Gavel
Phone: (617) 495-1115
Date: March 14, 2008

CAMBRIDGE, MA – Paul Steiger, former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, will receive the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy on March 18 at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The awards ceremony will begin at 6 p.m. in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge.

Steiger is currently the chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists and is editor-in-chief of Pro Publica.
The Goldsmith Awards Program, launched in 1991, has as its goal the encouragement of a more insightful, spirited public debate about government, politics and the press. The program includes the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting; two book prizes; Fellowships and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism. All of the 2008 prize winners will be announced at this event.

The Forum is open to the public and the press. Journalists interested in covering the Forum should contact the Harvard Kennedy School Communications Office at (617) 495-1115 to reserve space on the press riser.

The Goldsmith Awards Program, launched in 1991, has as its goal the encouragement of a more insightful, spirited public debate about government, politics and the press. The program includes the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting; two book prizes; Fellowships and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism. All of the 2008 prize winners will be announced at this event.

The Forum is open to the public and the press. Journalists interested in covering the Forum should contact the Harvard Kennedy School Communications Office at (617) 495-1115 to reserve space on the press riser.

This event will be web-streamed live: http://www.iop.harvard.edu/events_forum.html

To view past events, visit the Forum archive:  http://ksgaccman.harvard.edu/iop/events_forum_listview.asp

 

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