Celebrating Texas Journalism
2021 MIKE QUINN AWARDS LUNCHEON
On Saturday, February 26th, the Headliners Foundation hosted the annual Mike Quinn Awards Luncheon to celebrate our 2021-22 scholarship recipients and professional journalism award winners. More than 100 Foundation friends, supporters, journalists and journalism educators gathered to honor these exceptional individuals for their outstanding work. The event began with a networking reception, and included recognition of the scholarship recipients in attendance, presentation of the Charles E. Green Awards and Showcase Awards for Enterprise and Innovation to Texas' best journalists, and an enlightening Keynote panel discussion with Rob Cartwright, news director at CBS Austin, Sewell Chan, editor in chief at the Texas Tribune, and Manny Garcia, executive editor of the Austin American-Statesman, moderated by the director of UT-Austin's School of Journalism and Foundation Board member Kathleen McElroy.
During the program, the Foundation announced two new scholarships to be awarded for the first time in the spring of 2022: The Ellen and Mark Morrison Scholarship and the George A. McElroy Scholarship. The addition of these two scholarships will allow the Foundation to award a record $86,000 to Texas college and university students interested in pursuing a career in journalism.
Many thanks to all who attended and helped to make this a very special event!
