Free Speech TV & Co-Founder Jon Stout to Receive 2010 Professional Freedom & Responsibility Award

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Free Speech TV & Co-Founder Jon Stout to Receive 2010 Professional Freedom & Responsibility Award

DENVER, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Free Speech TV and co-founder Jon Stout will be honored on Thursday, August 5, 2010 with the 2010 Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award, presented by the Cultural & Critical Studies Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Monte Whaley and the Denver Post will also share this year's award.

The annual Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award recognizes individuals and organizations for a profound commitment to free expression; ethics; media criticism and accountability; racial, gender, and cultural inclusiveness; and public service. Past recipients include Bill Moyers, George Seldes, Molly Ivins, Noam Chomsky, Nina Totenberg, and Studs Terkel.

"I am proud to have General Manager Jon Stout and Free Speech TV as our 2010 Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award winner. They are a reflection of a long-standing tradition of excellence that has marked this award's history," said Bob Trumpbour, Head of the CCS Division.

"Free Speech TV is an exemplar for what all news organizations should work to achieve."

"At a time when much of the national media ceaselessly chases minor celebrity events, covering them ad-nauseum, it is refreshing that Free Speech TV is committed to bringing the truly important news of the day to a public that has been thirsting for quality journalism," Trumpbour continued.

"What Jon and his colleagues at Free Speech TV have done to promote an active, intelligent, and engaged citizenry is a model for what we hope our many students will aspire to achieve."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20100804/pl_usnw/DC45865_1

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1. Very cool. K & R. nt