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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.
Interview with Adriana Gómez Licón: Star Reporter
July 28, 2011
Interviewed by Headliners Foundation Contest Chairman Mark Morrison, Adriana Gómez Licón talks about the motivations and challenges in developing her prize-winning series of reports. Speaking from her apartment in Mexico City, where she now resides, Gómez Licón relates her experiences …
KRLD Breaking News Coverage
July 28, 2011
KRLD radio in Dallas/Fort Worth dispatched reporter Matt Thomas to cover a big fire on Greenville Avenue. Beginning with Matt’s on-the-scene descriptions, the station pulled in other resources, including a traffic analysis, a meteorologist and interviews with community leaders to …
Interview with Jim Ryan, 2011 Best in Radio
July 28, 2011
Jim Ryan, the senior reporter for WBAP radio in Dallas/Fort Worth is a free-ranging story machine. He sees something to report in everything that crosses his field of vision. Recently, he took time to visit with Headliners Foundation’s Neal Spelce …
Interview with Brett Shipp: Best Investigative Report (Television)
July 28, 2011
WFAA’s Brett Shipp visits with Headliners Foundation’s Neal Spelce in discussing the station’s prize-winning series of reports uncovering apathy, malfeasance and downright negligence in the failure of industry and regulators to take prompt action to rectify the public danger caused …