L.A. Press Club Mourns Loss of Walter Cronkite

Serving Southern California since 1913, the Los Angeles Press Club is the only Southern California journalism group that speaks for all journalists working for daily and weekly newspapers, radio & TV, magazines, documentary films and online.

STATEMENT

Sunday, July 19, 2009
For Immediate Release
Edward Headington, Publicist
818.720.7181, edward@lapressclub.org

Walter Cronkite was honored with the Joseph M. Quinn Award for lifetime achievement in 1981

Hollywood, CA. The Joseph M. Quinn Memorial Award for journalistic achievement and distinction is the highest honor bestowed by the Los Angeles Press Club. Winners join a select group of distinguished journalists, including a number of Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award winners.

"In giving him our highest award, the Los Angeles Press Club was proud to have recognized Cronkite as America's premiere anchorman,” said Press Club President Chris Woodyard, a reporter for USA TODAY. “His credibility, talent and objectivity will be sorely missed."

The award was named in honor of Joe Quinn, a veteran reporter, war correspondent and wire service editor who took over a floundering City News Service in the mid-1950s and built it into a successful newsgathering organization. Daily News city hall reporter, Rick Orlov, was this year’s recipient.

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