The USC School of Journalism and Mass Communications will honor three of its alumni Nov. 18 with its 2004 Distinguished Alumni Award and the Outstanding Young Alumni Award. On Nov. 19, the school will sponsor a panel discussion on the 2004 presidential election drawing on the two Distinguished Alumni Award winners.
Receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award are: William G. Douglas, ’80, White House correspondent with Knight Ridder Newspapers, in Washington, D.C., and Robin D. Roberts, ’78, co-founder and president of National Media, Inc., in Alexandria, Va., an award-winning Washington public relations firm. The 2004 Outstanding Young Alumni Award will be presented to Jason T. Wagenheim, ’95, ’96 master’s, advertising director of Conde Nast Traveler Magazine in New York.
The panel discussion on the presidential election will begin at 10 a.m. Nov. 19 in Room 2034 of the Carolina Coliseum. Included on the panel will be Douglas, who reported on the campaign for Knight-Ridder, and Roberts, who served as the advertising media planner for the Bush-Cheney campaign.
Others taking part in the discussion will be moderator Charles Bierbauer, dean of the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies, and panelists Randy Covington and Emerson Smith. Covington is an assistant professor of journalism and mass communications. Smith is president of Metromark Market Research Inc., in Columbia and Dallas, Texas, which provides research for the news media, government, business, and healthcare.
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