2008 Awards Ceremony
Honoring Jane Mayer and Andrew C. Revkin
Tom Brokaw and Bill Keller joined friends and colleagues to pay tribute to this year’s John Chancellor Award winners at Columbia’s Low Memorial Library on Wednesday, Nov. 19. Jane Mayer, staff writer of The New Yorker, and Andrew C. Revkin, science correspondent from The New York Times, were honored for sustained excellence over the course of their careers.
Brokaw, a member of the selection committee for the award, spoke about John Chancellor’s legacy as a broadcasting pioneer at NBC News and his own memories of watching Chancellor’s reports on the civil rights struggle when he was growing up in South Dakota. Ira Lipman, the founder of the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, talked about his role as Chancellor’s source at Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. in 1957.
A source of Mayer’s, former US Navy General Counsel Alberto Mora, paid tribute to her accomplishments and said that no journalist has done more than Jane to unearth, chronicle and explain the era of torture in America.
Jill Abramson, managing editor of The New York Times, spoke about Mayer as a close friend and colleague.
Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times, and Dr. James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies paid tribute to Andrew Revkin.
Complete coverage of the 2008 awards ceremony and dinner are also available.
Earlier in the evening, Mayer and Revkin spoke to a large group of students at the Journalism School.
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