Journalism professor Joe Saltzman, director of the Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture project, has been selected by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism to receive its 2005 Journalism Alumni Award. He will be honored along with Heidi Evans, New York Daily News; Dennis Redmont , Associated Press Rome bureau chief; and Tom Rosenstiel, director of Project for Excellence in Journalism, in New York on April 15. Saltzman is an award-winning documentary writer-producer whose groundbreaking documentaries for CBS-Los Angeles won more than 50 awards, including the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University and the Edward R. Murrow awards. He earned his bachelor's in journalism from USC in 1961, and his master's from Columbia the following year.
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