PITTSBURGH, Aug. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Press Club
of Western Pennsylvania's virtual
56th Golden Quill Awards will air on Thursday, Sept. 3, at 7
p.m. on public access station PCTV, available on Comcast 21
and Verizon 47 in the city of Pittsburgh, and pctv21.org as well as Apple
TV, ROKU and Fire TV.
The Press Club annually offers this contest, which recognizes
professional excellence in written, broadcast, photographic, video
and digital journalism and communications in Western Pennsylvania and neighboring counties
in Eastern Ohio and Northern West Virginia. This year 900 entries
were received and then judged by journalists in other press clubs
and journalism organizations.
During the virtual event, The Press Club will present two
Service to Journalism Awards. The first will be awarded to The
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh and
its president, Michael A. Fuoco, for
their commitment to professional journalism and advocacy for
journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The second is to KDKA
Radio, the "Pioneer Broadcasting Station of the World," which
traces its beginnings to its Harding-Cox presidential election
results broadcast on Nov. 2,
1920.
Chris Moore, Emmy award-winning
producer/host at WQED Multimedia and talk show host for KDKA Radio
and PCNC-TV, and Maxwell King,
philanthropic leader, former newspaper editor and New York Times bestselling author, will be honored
with the club's President's Awards.
The Press Club of Western
Pennsylvania is giving special recognition to the Pittsburgh
Black Media Federation and its president, Brian Cook Sr., this year for the organization's
advocacy for Black journalists and media coverage of minority
communities.
This year, during the broadcast the Press Club will honor the
life of Ginny Frizzi, longtime
co-chair of the Golden Quills committee, who died earlier this
summer. Frizzi led the regional SPJ chapter and actively supported
local journalism and journalists through the Women's Press Club of
Pittsburgh and Press Club of
Western Pennsylvania board. She
will be remembered for her commitment to journalism excellence and
leadership in the community, according to Press Club board
president Helen Fallon.
In addition, the Press Club will recognize journalism students
who won its annual scholarships: $5,000 Bob Fryer
Memorial Scholarship winner Ohio
University student Sarah
Donaldson, 20, of Cranberry; and $2,500 Press Club of Western Pennsylvania
Scholarship awardee Point Park
University student Jordyn
Hronec, 20, of Ross.
The Press Club of Western
Pennsylvania is a nonprofit organization of journalists and
other communications professionals from a 29-county area of
Western Pennsylvania. It sponsors
forums on current events and educational programs and presents the
annual Golden Quill Awards contest and ceremony, honoring the best
of journalism and communications in Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and Northern West Virginia. Membership in The
Press Club includes discounts on fees for programs and Golden Quill entries, use of dining facilities
at the Engineers' Building in Downtown
Pittsburgh, and access to The National Press Club in
Washington, D.C., and 15 other
press clubs around the country.
CONTACT: The Press Club of Western
Pennsylvania, pressclubwpa@yahoo.com, 412-281-7778
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