Schieffer School of Journalism instructor to serve on national media jury
Fort Worth, TX
10/30/2006
John Miller, professional-in-residence in broadcast journalism at TCU’s Schieffer School of Journalism, has been appointed to serve on the nine-member jury for the Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Awards. The duPont Awards are supervised by Columbia University and are given to honor the best in television and radio journalism.
Miller's news staff at WFAA-TV Dallas-Fort Worth was twice honored with duPonts, considered broadcast journalism's highest and most prestigious award, in 1991 and 1996, when Miller served as news director there. As a past winner, he accepted Columbia's invitation to become a screener for the awards, and was asked to begin serving on the main awards jury this year.
Miller joined the fulltime faculty at TCU in 2003 after a 35-year career in local television news in the Dallas Fort Worth market, including news directorships at WFAA and KTVT. He is the faculty adviser for TCU News Now, the Schieffer School's weekly television newscast.
The 2005-2006 du Pont awards will be presented Jan. 17 in a nationally televised ceremony at the Low Library at Columbia in New York City. Last year's awards ceremony was hosted by Bob Schieffer.
"Two of my most cherished possessions are WFAA's two duPont award certificates hanging on my wall at TCU," Miller said. "To be asked to serve on the jury that decides future winners is humbling beyond belief."
Other current duPont jurors include John Martin, former correspondent for ABC News, Roberta Baskin, executive director of the Center for Public Integrity and a former network correspondent for CBS and ABC, and Bill Wheatley, former president of NBC News.
Also serving on the jury is Cinny Kennard, manager of NPR's West Coast Production Center, and a former reporter for Miller at WFAA.
Member of the jury serve three-year terms, renewable for up to nine years.
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Media contact: Tracy Syler-Jones
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