Cronkite Award Winners with Mr. Cronkite and the Host Committee Co-Chairs. L to R: Jon Meacham, Sally Quinn, Walter Cronkite, Helio Fred Garcia, the Right Reverend Joan Holmes Dixon.
New York, November 6, 2007
Cronkite Award Winners with Mr. Cronkite and the Host Committee Co-Chairs. L to R: Jon Meacham, Sally Quinn, Walter Cronkite, Helio Fred Garcia, the Right Reverend Joan Holmes Dixon.
The Walter Cronkite Faith & Freedom Award, established in 1998, recognizes individuals who courageously promote democratic values, defend religious liberty, and reinvigorate informed civic participation. The award recognizes individuals whose actions have embodied the values of civility, tolerance, diversity, and cooperation in the advancement of public dialogue and public policy on traditionally controversial and divisive issues.
Together, Mr. Meacham and Ms. Quinn created and moderate On Faith, a ground-breaking online forum where a panel of leaders in faith, journalism and academia answer a different question on faith each week.
Logos Staff and Guests With Walter Cronkite and Interfaith Alliance President Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy. L to R: Helio Fred Garcia, Anthony Ewing, Carl Maugeri (Wharton School of Business), Margaret Lambires (Wharton School of Business), Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy (President, The Interfaith Alliance), Walter Cronkite, Barbara Greene, Oxana Trush, and Laurel Hart.
Sally Quinn is a Washington Post journalist, author and Washington DC insider. Ms. Quinn has written four books: We’re Going to Make You a Star, about her short-lived experience as a co-anchor for “CBS Morning News”; Regrets Only, her first novel; Happy Endings, its sequel, and The Party, in which Ms. Quinn offers an insider’s look at Washington entertaining and a personal view of the value of friendship. She is currently working on a book about religion in Washington.
Jon Meacham is the editor of Newsweek and author of American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation, and of Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship. Mr. Meacham joined Newsweek as a writer in January 1995, became national affairs editor in June of that year, and was named managing editor in November 1998 at age 29. In October 2006, he was promoted to the position of Editor. He supervises the magazine's coverage of politics, international affairs, and breaking news, and has written cover stories on politics, religion, race, guns in America, and the death of Ronald Reagan. In 2001, Newsweek won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence—the industry's highest honor—for its coverage of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and their aftermath. In 2003, the magazine won the award again for its coverage of and the Iraq War.
Walter Cronkite and Helio Fred Garcia.
Logos president Helio Fred Garcia and his spouse Laurel Garcia Colvin were co-chairs of the Cronkite Awards gala host committee with the Right Reverend Jane Holmes Dixon, former Episcopal Bishop of Washington pro tempore, and her spouse David Dixon. Logos Consulting Group underwrote the evening’s video presentation. The gala was held in The Rainbow Room in New York’s Rockefeller Center.
The Interfaith Alliance Foundation (TIAF) is A 501(c)(3) non-partisan educational organization. It works closely with The Interfaith Alliance (TIA), and shares TIA’s mission of promoting the positive and healing role of religion in public life by encouraging civic participation, facilitating community activism, and challenging religious political extremism. TIAF conducts its work through research, education, and civil discourse. TIAF is committed to informing the public about our nation’s long-standing commitment to religious freedom and current issues at the intersection of religion and politics. Through training, publications, educational initiatives, and research TIAF works to increase understanding about the religious liberty clause in the First Amendment to the Constitution and its relevance in today’s political process.
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