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Simeon Booker To Receive
19824th Estate
Award
' WASHINGTON
Simeon S. Booker,
27-year .: Washington
bureau chief : for the
Johnson v Publishing
Company, has . been
voted the National Press
Pub's ',1982 Fourth
Estate Award, according
to Vivian Vahlberg, club
president,
The award' is confer
red annually on the per
son who, in the judge
ment of the club's board
of governors, has achiev
ed distinction for a
lifetime of contributions
to American journalism.
Recommendations are
made by a nine-member
committee representing
all branches of the news
media. Ernest B. Furgur
son, Washington bureau
chief of the Baltimore
Sun, is chairman of the
committee. .
"Simeon Booker is
truly a giant in
Washington journalism,
living proof that one per
son can make a dif
ference," Vahlberg'said
m announcing bis selec
tion. "We are delighted
to honor such a
distinguished member of
our ranks."
Booker opened the
bureau for Johnson,
Black Man's America, a
reporter's view of the
civil rights movement in
the early '60s; and Susie
Kins Taylor: a
biography for children.
The Fourth Estate
publisher of Ebony, Jet, Award program is
Ebony Junior and Black underwritten by the Na
tional Press Foundation,
an independent founda
tion created to promote
quality in the com
munication of news. The
award will be presented
at a December dinner at
the National Press Club.
The first winner was
Walter Cronkite, CBS
News, in 1973. Suc-
ceeding winners have
been: James Reston, The
New York Times;
Richard L. Strout, The
Chistian Science
Monitor; John S.
Stars, in 1955 and has
headed it continuously
since. While serving as
bureau chief, he also was
a syndicated radio com
mentator for .the
Westinghduse Broad
casting Co. from 1969 to
1978.
From 1952 to 1954 he
was a reporter for the
Washington Post, the
first full-time black
reporter to be employed
by that newspaper.
Born in Baltimore,
Booker was raised in
Youngstown, Ohio. He
is a graduate of Virginia
Union University, and
was a Neiman Fellow at
Harvard in 1950, the se
cond black to be so
honored.
He is the author of
Knight, Knight-Ridder
Newspapers; Herbert L.
Block, the Washington
Post; Vermont Royster,
The Wall Street Journal;
Clayton Kirkpatrick,
Chicago Tribune;
Theodore White, author;
and. Nick B. Williams,
Los Angeles Times.
In honoring Booker
last year for unique and
distinguished service to
urban journalism, the
National Urban Coali
tion said in its citation:
"There are a good
many institutions in the
nation's capital. Not all
of them are encased in
marble. We are honored
to have this Opportunity
to call special attention
to one of the best
them,
Booker."
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formed and vigilant of
pending legislation, says
Ms. Freeman. Minorities
in particular need to
recognize that "the gains
we've made can be wiped
away."
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