60 Minutes Creator, CBS News Executive Producer, Highlights 2008 Symposium
The Thirty-fourth Edward R. Murrow Symposium at Washington State University honors Don Hewitt, creator of 60 Minutes and CBS News executive producer, with the 2008 Edward R. Murrow Award-Lifetime Achievement in Broadcast Journalism.
The public is invited to the award presentation and free address by Hewitt at 7:30 p.m. April 3 in Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum on the WSU Pullman campus.
Hewitt directed and produced numerous news broadcasts and the first televised presidential debates in 1960 between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. He has received many accolades for his work, including eight Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards, and, most recently, the American Federation of Television and Radio Actors George Heller Lifetime Achievement Award.
Despite his extensive career, Hewitt is best known for creating the most successful and longest-running prime time broadcast in history, the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. Currently in its fortieth season, 60 Minutes offers investigative reports, interviews, and features about people in the news.
Previous winners of Murrow Awards include David Fanning, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, Daniel Schorr, Walter Cronkite, Sam Donaldson, and Bernard Shaw.
Complementing the Edward R. Murrow Symposium are an annual scholarship banquet hosted the evening of the symposium, panels and workshops held throughout the day for students of WSU, the University of Idaho, and high schools nationwide, and the annual Edward R. Murrow High School Journalism Awards Competition.
For more information about any of the Murrow Symposium activities, contact the Murrow Symposium.
Schedule of Events
Tuesday, April 1
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. | An Hour with Don Hewitt of 60 Minutes
The Rainier Club | 820 Fourth Avenue | Seattle
(Registration required)
Presented by the Washington News Council, Washington State University, and The Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at WSU
Wednesday, April 2
6:00 p.m. | PRSSA Reception, hosted by the Jay Rockey Chapter of PRSSA
Lower Atrium of the Communication Addition Building
7:30-9:30 p.m. | Alumni Welcome Reception (Registration required)
Lewis Alumni Centre
Thursday, April 3
8:00-8:30 a.m. | Registration
8:30-9 a.m. | Welcome
9:10-11:50 a.m. | Workshops
10-11:30 a.m. | Résumé Critiques
Noon-1:15 p.m. | Lunch
Celebrating the Centennial of Edward R. Murrow's Birth
1:30-3:45 p.m. | Workshops
2:15-3:30 p.m. | Résumé Critiques
3:00 p.m. | Press Conference
Murrow Studio A
4:30-7:15 p.m. | Scholarship Awards and Recognition Banquet (Early reservations required)
7:30 p.m. | Thirty-fourth Edward R. Murrow Symposium with address by 60 minutes creator Don Hewitt
Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum
Thursday, April 3
7:30 p.m.
The 2008 Edward R. Murrow Symposium with address by
60 Minutes creator and CBS News executive producer Don Hewitt
Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum
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