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Please join us for the 31st Annual TFAS Journalism Awards Dinner in New York City. Your support enables us to develop the next generation of excellent journalists while honoring today’s leaders who are paving the way.

DETAILS:

Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024
Reception 6 p.m. | Dinner 7 p.m.

Metropolitan Club
One East 60th Street
New York, NY 10022

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TFAS is pleased to present James Bennet, Lexington columnist and a senior editor at The Economist; former editorial page editor of The New York Times; and former editor-in-chief of The Atlantic with the 2024 Kenneth Y. Tomlinson Award for Courageous Journalism.

James Bennet is a senior editor and the weekly Lexington columnist at The Economist. He was previously the editorial page editor of The New York Times, where he oversaw the digital transformation of the paper’s opinion department and led it to two Pulitzer prizes in four years, its first in more than a decade. Before joining the Times, Mr. Bennet was the editor in chief and co-president of The Atlantic. Under Mr. Bennet, named editor in 2006, The Atlantic substantially increased its audience and editorial impact while returning to profitability for the first time in many years. He is a past president of the American Society of Magazine Editors and past member of the board of the Columbia Journalism Review. Before joining The Atlantic, Mr. Bennet worked for the Times for 15 years in several reporting roles, including Jerusalem bureau chief, White House correspondent and Detroit bureau chief. He also served as staff writer for the Sunday Times magazine. He was previously an editor of The Washington Monthly.

James (Jim) Dao will present the award to Bennet. Dao is the editorial page editor of The Boston Globe, overseeing editorials, op-eds, letters, and the Ideas section. Since he joined the Globe in July 2022, the section has expanded its newsletter offerings, created a new podcast, “Say More,” and pushed to elevate its digital content. Before the Globe, he spent 30 years at The New York Times where, as a reporter, he wrote about state and national politics, roamed the country as a national correspondent, covered the State and Defense departments, created a beat on veterans affairs, and embedded with American troops during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

TFAS is pleased to present Lance Morrow, contributing columnist at The Wall Street Journal and former TIME magazine editor and essayist, with the 2024 Thomas L. Phillips Career Achievement Award.

Lance Morrow, whose essays appear in the Wall Street Journal and City Journal, is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. For some forty years, he was a writer, editor and essayist at TIME, where he won two National Magazine Awards and was a finalist for a third. A 1963 graduate of Harvard, he is the author of ten books, including two collections of his essays and a critically acclaimed memoir, The Chief. William F. Buckley Jr. described him as “one of the two or three best writers in America.”

Raised in Washington D.C., the son of two magazine journalists, Morrow was a reporter for the Washington Star before joining the staff of TIME in 1965. He lives on a farm in upstate New York with his wife, the author Susan Brind Morrow, and has two sons, James—a newspaper and television journalist in Sydney, Australia, and Justin, a writer in New York.

Paul Gigot will present the award to Morrow. Paul Gigot is the editorial page editor and vice president of The Wall Street Journal, a position he has held since September 2001. He is responsible for The Journal’s editorials, op-ed articles and Leisure & Arts criticism and directs the editorial content of its editions globally. He is also the host of a weekly news program, the “Journal Editorial Report,” on the FOX News Channel.

TFAS will present the 2024 Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Awards to the next generation of top writers.

By providing essential support and an extensive network of alumni, the Novak Fellowship gives promising journalists the resources to undertake career-building and impactful projects. Named in honor of renowned columnist Robert D. Novak, the program has funded more than 150 journalists since its founding. 

The evening will also honor the life and legacy of Joseph Rago, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal, who died in 2017 at the age of 34.

In memory of Joe, TFAS and the Rago family established the Joseph Rago Memorial Fellowship for Excellence in Journalism, providing a nine-month internship with The Wall Street Journal’s editorial team. Jillian Lederman and Luke Lyman are the two recipients of the 2024 Joseph Rago Memorial Fellowship for Excellence in Journalism. The Fellowships are being awarded to two outstanding individuals for the first time since its creation in 2018. Previously, the award was given to one fellow per year.

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Honorary Co-Chairs

Jeffrey J. Carneal

Steve and Nancy Einhorn

John and Astrid Hajjar

Hon. Karl Rove

Bridgett and Steve Wagner