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Mark Morrison
Mark Morrison, currently a lecturer at the University of Texas School of Journalism, is the former editor of Business Week magazine. He also serves on the Board of the Headliners Foundation, in the capacities of Vice-Chairman and Chair of the Professional Excellence committee. His 30-year tenure with Business Week (12 as Managing Editor) gives him special insights into the way news is gathered and presented, as well as how the business aspects of journalism affect the way our news comes to us.
Neal Spelce
Neal Spelce, long-time news director and television news anchor for KTBC-TV and KEYE-TV in Austin, is a former member of the Headliners Foundation Board of Governors. His long career in television news included prize-winning coverage of the UT sniper incident and close monitoring of the LBJ Texas White House years. He is currently president of Neal Spelce Communications, a prize-winning public and media relations company, located in Austin, Texas.
Covering the Central Texas Wildfires: YNN Austin
December 22, 2011
YNN Austin, Time Warner Cable’s 24/7 news operation went from sleepy Sunday mode to full battle armor in less than an hour when news of the first of what was to become several distinct wildfires broke over police radios in …
2010-2011 Best Reporter (Television):
Kevin Reece, KHOU-TV Houston
September 17, 2011
Kevin Reece of Houston’s Channel 11 KHOU-TV News team is truly a star reporter. He works the daily beats to cover the routine news, but is always on the look for that special opportunity that a great nose for news …
2010-2011 Best Online Package
September 2, 2011
Christine DiStadio, the Director of Digital Media for Houston’s KHOU-TV, relates to Headliners Foundation’s Neal Spelce how her Digital Media team expanded the locally broadcast series of reports about potential radiation dangers in Houston-area water supplies into an interactive Statewide …
2010-2011 Star Investigative Report: Dallas Morning News
September 1, 2011
Dallas Morning News Investigative Reporter Steve McGonigle details the work of the DMN team of McGonigle, James Drew and Ryan McNeill who unearthed a trail of unusually profitable real estate deals and questionable appointments by Texas Governor Rick Perry. The …
2011 Best Breaking News Coverage (Television)
July 28, 2011
Jim Douglas, Senior Reporter and Josh Stephen, Senior Photojournalist were en route back to the WFAA-TV Fort Worth bureau from a previous assignment when they picked up from radio traffic that there had been a gas line rupture and explosion …