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20 unusual facts about Freedom Forum


Adam Clayton Powell III

Before joining USC, Powell's career included positions at the Freedom Forum, NPR, CBS News, 1010 WINS in New York City (as news director), Quincy Jones Entertainment, and as general manager of Howard University’s WHUT-TV.

Allissa Richardson

Richardson began her journalism career in 2002 as a general assignment intern for the Observer-Dispatch in Utica, New York, after winning a Freedom Forum scholarship.

Bette Bao Lord

In addition to chairing Freedom House, Ms. Lord has served on many other boards including the Newseum, The Freedom Forum, the International Broadcasting Board of Governors, the Council on Foreign Relations and WNET.

Connick v. Myers

"This had been an easy case for the lower courts and, I think, rightfully so", he told the Freedom Forum.

Ennead Architects

Newseum/Freedom Forum Foundation World Headquarters, Washington, DC (2007)

International Press Institute

The award is co-sponsored by the US-based Freedom Forum, a non-partisan, international foundation dedicated to free press and free speech.

James C. Duff

James C. Duff is the president and CEO of the Freedom Forum, the nonpartisan foundation dedicated to the First Amendment and media issues and which runs Washington, D.C.’s Newseum, the First Amendment Center, and the Diversity Institute at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

John Alden Scott

After four years Scott was named President of the Gannett Foundation (now known as The Freedom Forum), which at the time was ranked one of the largest foundations in the country.

Louis Boccardi

Boccardi is a member of the national advisory board of the Freedom Forum Center for Media Studies, and a trustee emeritus of the Newseum, and the board of visitors of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, and is an honorary trustee of the William Allen White Foundation at the University of Kansas.

Native American Journalists Association

In 2003 it moved into the Al Neuharth Media Center, where it shared space with the Freedom Forum.

Newseum

In 2000, Freedom Forum decided to move the Newseum from its location in Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac River to downtown Washington, D.C. The original Newseum was closed on 3 March 2002, to allow its staff to concentrate on building the new, larger museum.

Olance Nogueras Rofes

He was invited for the International Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the Inter Press Association (IAPA) and the regional division of the organization Freedom Forum in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Paul Janensch

While there, he established an advanced training program for the Gannett Foundation (now The Freedom Forum) to help Washington-based reporters from regional newspapers develop stories for the papers that employed them.

Reuben Greenberg

Greenberg was named Justice Professional of the Year in 1991 by the Southern Criminal Justice Foundation, received the Foundation for Improvement of Justice 1989 Achievement Award and the Free Spirit Award from the Freedom Forum in 1994 for distinguished success in fighting crime.

Robert Giles

He worked at the The Freedom Forum prior to taking the curatorship at Nieman in 2000.

Sally Bedell Smith

She won the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award in 1982, and became a fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center in 1986.

University of South Dakota

Dedicated in September 2003, the Neuharth Center houses all of the news and media organizations on campus, including the Freedom Forum’s South Dakota operations, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, the Department of Contemporary Media and Journalism, campus newspaper The Volante, campus radio station KAOR, and television station KYOT.

Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident

On September 23, 2005, colleague Eric Newton copied and pasted Seigenthaler's official biography into Wikipedia from the Freedom Forum web site.

Young D.C.

Stalwart supporters (The Freedom Forum, the Bureau of National Affairs, National Press Club and the Children’s Charities Foundation) helped YDC through this first bout with hard times.

In 1994, The Freedom Forum produced Death by Cheeseburger: High School Journalism in the 1990s and Beyond.