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Communicators’ achievement, service honored at annual banquet

March 15, 2006 By Dennis Chaptman

Five communications professionals will be honored for their leadership, accomplishment and service at the UW–Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication annual banquet on Friday, March 24.

Three UW–Madison graduates will receive the school’s Distinguished Service Award for professional contributions in mass communications. They are:

  • Marj Charlier, chairman of the board of the Global Heritage Fund, a San Francisco-based organization that funds and assists in planning early-civilization archeology projects in developing countries. Marj was most recently director of corporate social responsibility at Expedia, Inc., where she designed and administered the company’s corporate giving, employee giving and volunteer activities and cause-related marketing programs.
  • Bill Mullen, news reporter for the Chicago Tribune, where he has been on staff since 1967. Bill has been a foreign correspondent, covering wars in Asia and the Middle East, and currently writes about education and cultural institutions in the Chicago area. Among his many notable professional honors and awards is the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. Mullen is a native of La Crosse.
  • Steve Pogorzelski, president of Monster.com, North America. Steve is responsible for Monster Operations in 21 countries worldwide across Europe, Asia Pacific and China. He has 22 years of recruitment advertising agency experience encompassing a wide variety of functional areas.

In addition, the Ralph O. Nafziger Award for distinguished achievement by an alumnus within 10 years of graduation will be presented to Scott Anderson, political producer at CNN.com. Scott has worked at The Online NewsHour, the Web site of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He was a news producer at washingtonpost.com, where he worked with the 2004 election results project. In 2005, Scott joined CNN.com, where he oversees the political coverage for the site, which serves 24 million unique users each month.

Receiving the Harold L. Nelson Award for achievement in journalism education will be Jane Brown, professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill since 1977. Brown’s research focuses on health communication and the uses and effects of the media on adolescents’ health, including early sexual activity, aggressive behavior, and tobacco and alcohol use. She is the co-author or co-editor of four books about the effects of the media on children and adolescents; her research has been published in journals in communication, adolescence and public health.

The dinner will be held in the Alumni Lounge at the Pyle Center, with a reception beginning at 6 p.m. Tickets are $25 and may be purchased until Friday, March 17 by contacting Janet Buechner, (608) 263-4080, or jbuechne@wisc.edu.