NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg, columnist and PBS political commentator Mark Shields, USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page and WAMU radio host Kojo Nnamdi will be inducted into the Hall of Fame of the D.C. Pro Chapter, Society of Professional Journalists, June 10, 2014.
The criterion for membership in the Hall of Fame is simply this: strong journalism over at least 25 years in Washington.
The four inductees will speak at the chapter’s annual Dateline Awards dinner in the ballroom of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C. Cocktails begin at 6:00 p.m., with dinner at 7:00 p.m.
On the same evening, the D.C. Chapter’s 2014 Distinguished Service Award will be presented to Frank Quine, retired assistant dean at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Also, Austin H. Kiplinger, editor emeritus of Kiplinger Washington Editors, will receive lifetime achievement recognition.
Totenberg has covered the Supreme Court for NPR’s All Things Considered, Morning Edition and other programs for decades. Her articles have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Harvard Law Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Parade Magazine, New York Magazine, and others. She was also a regular panelist on Inside Washington, a weekly syndicated public affairs television program.
Shields is another veteran of Inside Washington and, for more than 25 years, he has provided political analysis and commentary for the PBS NewsHour. For 17 years, he was moderator and panelist on CNN’s Capital Gang. In 1979, Shields became an editorial writer for The Washington Post and, that same year, he began writing a newspaper column that is now distributed nationally by Creators Syndicate.
Page has worked at USA Today since 1995 as White House correspondent, White House Bureau Chief and Washington Bureau Chief. Earlier, Page covered the White House and national politics for Newsday, arriving in Washington in 1981. She is a regular guest host on The Diane Rehm Show on NPR and does political analysis on MSNBC, CNN newscasts and the CNN Sunday program State Of The Union.
Nnamdi has hosted the WAMU-FM interview program that bears his name since 1998. He also hosts The Politics Hour on WAMU. Earlier, Nnamdi was the host of Evening Exchange, a public affairs television program broadcast by WHUT-TV at Howard University. From 1973 to 1985, Nnamdi worked at WHUR-FM as news editor and then news director. There he produced the local news program The Daily Drum.
Quine believes he has managed finally to retire from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, to which he was called back for several months last year by Dean Lucy Dalglish following his first retirement attempt in 2010. Quine spent 23 years at the College as development director, assistant dean and as vice president of American Journalism Review. He came to Maryland in 1988 after 18 years with the executive staff of the American Press Institute in New York City and Reston, Va.
Kiplinger may be SPJ’s member of longest standing – ever. He joined the journalism fraternity Sigma Delta Chi, the predecessor of SPJ, as a Cornell University student in 1936. In addition to a long career in the family business, Kiplinger reported for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Journal of Commerce in Chicago. He also was a political commentator for ABC. He was editor in chief of Kiplinger from 1961 until his retirement.
Also at the June 10 dinner, SPJ’s D.C. Pro Chapter will present its annual Dateline Awards for excellence in local journalism.
Tickets for the dinner are now available for $80 for SPJ members (plus one guest per member) and $110 for nonmembers.
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