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Press Club of Western Pennsylvania announces 2009 Golden Quill Award winners

The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania announced the winners of the 45th annual Golden Quill Awards during an awards presentation May 14, 2009, at the Hilton Pittsburgh, Downtown Pittsburgh. The Golden Quills competition recognizes professional excellence in written, photographic, broadcast and online journalism in Western Pennsylvania.

Click here for the list of winners and finalists of the 2009 Golden Quills.*

Also during the awards presentation, the Press Club honored Fred I. Young, retired senior vice president of Hearst-Argyle Television Inc., with the President’s Award, recognizing him for his contributions to the field of journalism.

Brittany Hoke of Mt. Pleasant, a junior at Point Park University, received the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania scholarship, given to an aspiring journalism student.

The lead sponsors of the 2009 Golden Quill awards ceremony are Dominion; PR Newswire; Reed Smith; Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky; and Trib Total Media.

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Press Club of Western Pennsylvania to honor Fred I. Young with President’s Award

Fred I. Young, retired senior vice president of Hearst-Argyle Television Inc., is the 2009 recipient of the President’s Award of the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania.

He will be honored at the 45th Annual Golden Quills Awards dinner on May 14, 2009, at the Pittsburgh Hilton & Towers, Gateway Center, Downtown. Winners of the Golden Quills competition, recognizing professional excellence in written, photographic, illustration, broadcast and online journalism in Western Pennsylvania, will be announced at the event. Click here* for the list of finalists.

Mr. Young oversaw news operations at television stations in 26 markets throughout 22 states, including the Hearst-Argyle Washington, D.C., bureau. In March, the station group won a prestigious Peabody Award in recognition of election coverage initiatives championed by Mr. Young beginning in 2000.

Mr. Young served for 25 years at WTAE-TV as vice president and general manager, news director and other news management positions. He joined Hearst Broadcasting in 1962. He is a graduate of Duquesne University.

Under Mr. Young’s leadership, Hearst-Argyle stations have received many of television’s highest awards for excellence in journalism, including the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Peabody, the duPont-Columbia Journalism Award, the National Headliner Award, the Emmy and the National Association of Broadcasters Service to America Award.

Mr. Young was honored last month with the Radio-Television News Directors Association’s Paul White Award, which recognizes an individual’s lifetime contribution to electronic journalism. Mr. Young was one of only two of the award’s 53 recipients – including Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite – to have been a career local-TV news professional.

The Pennsylvania Associated Press Broadcasters Association recently selected Mr. Young as winner of the 2009 Roy E. Morgan Award for outstanding contributions to broadcasting.

Also at the Golden Quills dinner, Brittany Hoke of Mt. Pleasant, a junior at Point Park University, will receive the 2009 Press Club of Western Pennsylvania’s Scholarship for aspiring journalists.

The Golden Quill Awards evening will start at 6 p.m., with a cash bar and reception. Dinner and the awards ceremony will follow at 7 p.m.

Lead sponsors of the event are Dominion; PR Newswire; ReedSmith; Strassburger, McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky; and Trib Total Media.

Tickets are $50 each, $500 for a table of 10. For information about reservations for the dinner, contact Pam Thompson at 412-327-9084 or pam.thompson@prnewswire.com. Download an invitation here*.

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Press Club partners with Pittsburgh Black Media Federation

The Press Club of Western Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh Black Media Federation have entered into a reciprocal agreement that allows members of both organizations to attend each other's events at the sponsoring group's membership pricing. PBMF activities will be listed in the Calendar of Upcoming Events. For more information on PBMF, go to pbmfonline.org.