Journalism school associate director Patricia Dean has been selected by the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University as the 2006 recipient of the Schwartz Award. The award is the University’s highest honor for distinguished service to journalism and mass communication. Previous recipients include former Des Moines Register editor Geneva Overholser and former Time magazine correspondent Hugh Sidey. Prior to joining the USC Annenberg faculty, Prof. Dean taught at Northwestern University and spent two decades as a broadcast journalist in Chicago, leading news teams at WMAQ (NBC), WLS (ABC), and WBBM (CBS). Her work was honored with numerous awards including the George Foster Peabody Award, the Chicago Television Academy Emmy Award and the National Press Club Award for "The Best Consumer Journalism." She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Iowa State and a master's degree from Northwestern. The Schwartz Award will be presented at ISU's annual Homecoming celebration in Fall 2006.
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