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Alaska Press Club 2009 Public Service Award

The Public Service Award is the highest honor Alaska Press Club, a 300-member professional organization, annually bestows for work published or broadcast in the previous calendar year. The competition is open to any and all Alaska media. The award recognizes a news organization "marshaling resources above and beyond what is expected" in its pursuit of a story deemed to be important to society.

A pair of judges determined this year's Public Service winners: Gary Cohn, a former Atwood Professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and numerous other national journalism awards. Loretta Tofani is a longtime investigative reporter and foreign correspondent and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and numerous other national journalism awards.

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Previous Lecture Series Notifications

Snedden Endowed Chair of Journalism Presents: David Handschuh
The New York Daily News - Staff Photographer
New York University - Professor of Photojournalism
Handschuh suffered serious injuries and narrowly escaped with his life while covering the attack on the World Trade Center. During months of recovery, he helped to develop programs to document and address long term physical and mental health issues for journalists that may arise from working at Ground Zero and other stressful assignments.
Free Public Lecture
Out of the Fire and into the Frying Pan
A News Photographer’s Journey from 9.11 to the Kitchen
Thursday, February 15 Noel Wien Library Auditorium 7 p.m.

Snedden Endowed Chair of Journalism Presents: Peggy Simpson
Former Ms Magazine Wash Bureau Chief
Peggy Simpson was the AP reporter covering John Kennedy’s assassination and is a former Contributing Editor for Ms. Magazine and Women’s e-news. She is an award-winning Washington political and economic correspondent who helped chronicle the women’s political movement. 

Free Public Lecture - Women and Minorities in Media and Politics: The Times They Are A-Changin' Wednesday, November 29 Noel Wien Library Auditorium 7 p.m.
Presentation for UAF Students - Schaible Auditorium Tuesday, Nov. 28 from 9:45 - 11:15 a.m.

Snedden Endowed Chair of Journalism Presents: Gary Cohn, Investigative Reporter, L.A. Times
Pulitzer Prize winner Gary Cohn is a reporter with the Los Angeles Times. 
Many of Cohn's stories have exposed wrongdoing, raised important public policy issues and resulted in significant reforms. He won the 1998 investigative reporting Pulitzer for a series of articles in the Baltimore Sun that documented the dangers to workers and the environment when old warships are dismantled.
Free Public Lecture
Taking the Local Investigative Story Global Thursday, November 2
Noel Wien Library Auditorium 7 p.m.
Presentation for UAF Students
Schiable Auditorium Tuesday, Oct. 31, from 9:45 - 11:15 a.m.

Snedden Endowed Chair of Journalism Presents: Frank Bass (October 11th, 2006)
Frank Bass of the Associated Press; Computer Investigations
For our first Snedden Lecturer of the new school year, we welcome Frank Bass, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1988 for general news reporting for an investigation into the high infant mortality rate in Alabama. He is currently assigned to the Washington-based national investigations team specializing in multimedia stories, and is the author of 'The Associate Press Guide to Internet Research and Reporting.'
Free Public Lecture: Revenge of the Mainstream Media: blog, Podcasts and Online Video Wednesday, October 11, 7pm, Noel Wein Library Auditorium, Fairbanks, Ak
Presentation for UAF Students: Schiable Auditorium, Bunnell Bldg, Tuesday, October 10th, 9:45-11:15 am