Washington New Council's Accomplishments 1999 - 2007
Contact us: Fax: 206-464-7902 info@wanewscouncil.org |
OUR MISSION: To help maintain public trust and confidence in the news media by promoting fairness, accuracy and balance, and by creating a forum where the public and the news media can engage each other in examining standards of journalistic fairness and accountability. ••••••• John Seigenthaler on First Amendment: Our Rights ARE at Risk As founder and president of the First Amendment Center, John Seigenthaler is deeply knowledgeable about the words that begin the U.S. Bill of Rights: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or of the rights of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." In a special presentation at Seattle Public Library's Microsoft Auditorium on April 18, sponsored by the Washington News Council, Seigenthaler made those words come alive. The event was co-sponsored by Davis Wright Tremaine, The Seattle Times, the Washington Coalition for Open Government, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Washington, and the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association. To read WNC Executive Director John Hamer's blog on the event, CLICK HERE •••••••  ••••••• Spokane Spokesman-Review wins 2008 Ancil Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism for Washington News Council's report on River Park Square coverage. CLICK HERE to read the University of Oregon Journalism School's CLICK HERE for Spokesman-Review Editor Steve Smith's blog on the award. The judges said: "To open up the paper to an objective analysis of that coverage and to publish without fear or favor what they found is courageous; the level of independence and control they were willing to give up is significant; and having an organization such as a news council investigate is unprecedented.” What happens when a newspaper covers itself? A groundbreaking case study on the struggle between media ownership and local news coverage. CLICK HERE to download order form. or here to order through clickandpledge CLICK HERE ••••••• The April 1 lunch with Don Hewitt of "60 Minutes" at The Rainier Club was a big success. A sell-out crowd of 165 people attended the event, co-sponsored by the Washington News Council and Washington State University. To see the event, go to www.tvw.org for streamed video or to check broadcast schedule. To read two blogs about the event on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's website: CLICK HERE (Blog by P-I reporter Athima Chansanchai) AND HERE (Blog by WNC Member Emeritus Sue Frause) WSU's Edward R. Murrow School of Communication (www.wsu.edu/murrow) gave Don Hewitt its Lifetime Achievement in Broadcast Journalism Award in Pullman on April 3. |
|
Click here to donate online, or to join "100 Friends of the WNC"
|
||
