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	October 12, 2005 ▪ A periodic online newsletter
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THIS JUST IN! Dateline NBC correspondent and Cincinnati native Edie Magnus banquet keynote

Dateline NBC correspondent, Cincinnati native and Walnut Hills High School alum Edie Magnus has agreed to be the keynote speaker at this year’s Society of Professional Journalists banquet October 28, 2005 (buy tickets).

Edie Magnus has been a correspondent for Dateline since 1996.

Magnus has covered numerous stories, ranging from the capture of Wichita’s notorious BTK serial killer, to the conviction of Martha Stewart. She also reported on a documentary about the story of Kendra Webdale, a young woman who was pushed in front of an oncoming New York subway by a man suffering from severe schizophrenia, and an award-winning story about a little boy who underwent a groundbreaking bran surgery in Australia, which helped to persuade doctors to start doing the operation here in the United States.

Previously, she was the anchor of MSNBC’s NBC News @Issue, which provided NBC News anchors and correspondents a forum to discuss important news topics of the day.

Prior to joining MSNBC, Magnus covered the media and information industries for CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, reporting on the news and entertainment industries, the Internet and other new media. Before that, she was a correspondent for Eye to Eye, the CBS primetime newsmagazine from December 1992 to August 1995.

From April 1991 to December 1992, she was the CBS News health and medical correspondent, reporting regularly for the CBS Evening News. She joined CBS in April 1990 as a general assignment correspondent in New York. She was also co-anchor, with Robert Krulwich, of the Friday editions of America Tonight from October 1990 to March 1991.

Magnus has an extensive background in television reporting and anchoring. She was a principal anchor for USA Today: The Television Show for one year. She served as an anchor for ABC’s World News This Morning, and she did the news segments for Good Morning America. Magnus was also an ABC News correspondent based in Chicago from August 1985 to January 1987.

In Cincinnati she got her first experience in journalism as an unpaid internet at Cincinnati's Northeastern Suburban Life newspaper. From there she went to WEBN-FM, also as an unpaid intern working under "The News Brothers" team of Craig Kopp and Rick Bird who were first to let her go on air. Later, she moved over to WUBE-FM, where she was mentored by the late Doug Anthony. From there she moved to WKRC-TV where she was a reporter and later an anchor. From there she was hired by ABC News.

She and her husband Bob Mayer, a television producer, live in Hastings-on-Hudson, with their two sons.

2005 SPJ Awards Banquet tickets on sale
SPJ honors the University of Cincinnati's new Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, News Record turns 125 years old

This year's Society of Professional Journalists Awards Banquet promises to be the best ever. The SPJ Board has been working hard to deliver a top-notch event - everything from a great keynote speaker to the all-important open bar. We will also take time out to recognize of Cincinnati's first journalism program, launched this fall at the University of Cincinnati. Plus we'll honor UC's student newspaper, The News Record, as they enter their 125th year.

When:	Friday, October 28, 2005 6 p.m. Reception and Open Bar 7 p.m. Dinner and Awards Banquet
Where:	Marriott Kingsgate Conference Hotel University of Cincinnati 151 Goodman Drive, Cincinnati 45219 (513) 487-3800
Tickets:	$55, available online or through the mail Make check or money order payable to "SPJ". To buy through the mail, send check or money order to: Society of Professional Journalists P.O. Box 1934 Cincinnati, Ohio 45201-1934 Banquet tickets will be mailed if received before October 20.
More Info:	Call (513) 621-NEWS or e-mail banquet@cincyspj.org

Kaufman, Nelson to be inducted into Cincinnati SPJ Journalism Hall of Fame October 28

The SPJ Executive Board voted at its September 30 meeting to induct two distinguished Cincinnati journalists into the Cincinnati Journalism Hall of Fame.

This year's inductees are:

Ben Kaufman, retired reporter with The Cincinnati Enquirer, was known for highly-ethical and unconventional reporting techniques that explained to the reader the very essence of every news story. Kaufman covered varied beats at the paper - everything from the Federal courts to religion - and did so in a way that his colleagues both admired and tried to emulate. Known as a tough professor of journalism at Northern Kentucky University, students either loved him or disliked him - but they always learned something.

Hasker Nelson, WCPO's community affairs director and the producer-host of the weekly African-American focused "Black Memo" community affairs program in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, broke color barriers in the broadcasting industry. Hired during a time when few blacks entered newsrooms, Nelson developed and hosted "Black Memo" and made it the longest-running African-American focused program in the U.S.

More information on both inductees is being researched and will be added at a later time to the SPJ Web site. If you have a story to share about either of these distinguished journalists, please contact SPJ Hall of Fame chairperson, Scott Aiken at (513) 321-0366 or saiken@aol.com.

Next SPJ Board Meeting:
11 a.m. Friday, October 28, 2005
Location to be announced

November Board Meeting:
11 a.m. Friday, November 18, 2005
(NOTE: One week earlier)
Location to be announced

About SPJ

The Society of Professional Journalists works to improve and protect journalism. For more than 95 years, SPJ has been dedicated to encouraging a climate in which journalism can be practiced freely and fully, stimulating high standards of ethical behavior in the practice of journalism, and perpetuating a free press as the cornerstone of our nation and our liberty.

Board Meetings, fourth Friday every month (except August)

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