Carole Simpson Named Recipient of AEJMC’s 2012 First Amendment Award
August 9, 2012 -- The trail-blazing news anchor and member of the IWMF's Advisory Council Carole Simpson will be honored with the 2012 First Amendment Award of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication during its 100th meeting in Chicago on August 10, 2012. A three-time Emmy Award winning anchor and senior correspondent with ABC News for decades, Simpson recently published her memoirs, NewsLady, which recounts her 40-year career as a pioneering African American woman in the field of broadcast journalism. Simpson retired from ABC News in 2006 to become Leader-in-Residence at Emerson College’s School of Communication in Boston.
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