Cox Keynote Speaker At NYFWA Annual Dinner.NEW YORK -- Christopher Cox, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, will be the keynote speaker at the 2006 Annual Awards Dinner of the New York Financial Writers Association on Thursday, June 8, 2006, in the Westside Ballroom of the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Cox, who was sworn in as the 28th SEC Chair last August, has made vigorous enforcement of the securities laws the agency's top priority. That evening the Association will also present its prestigious Elliott V. Bell Award for 2006 to Terri Thompson, Director of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is the only journalism school in the Ivy League; it awards the Pulitzer Prize and duPont-Columbia Award; co-sponsors the National Magazine Award and publishes the Columbia Journalism Review. . Named for the renowned journalist and first president of the NYFWA, the Elliott V. Bell Award is awarded annually and recognizes an individual's long-term contribution to the profession of financial journalism. Thompson will receive the award from Stephen B. Shepard, former BusinessWeek editor, current dean of the graduate program in journalism at City University of New York The City University of New York (CUNY; acronym: IPA pronunciation: [kjuni]), is the public university system of New York City. , and the founder of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship. In addition, the Association will also present scholarships to New York metropolitan area New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the third most populous in the world, after Tokyo and Mexico City. college students with specialties in business or financial journalism, according to Britt Erika Tunick, this year's Association president. Ten students from three different journalism schools and universities will receive awards of $3,000 each. The scholarship program was begun in the 1970s and is regularly funded by the Association from portions of proceeds of various Association events. Before he was named SEC Chair, Cox served the previous 10 years in the Majority Leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives. Among the significant laws he authored were the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and and the Internet Tax Freedom Act The 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act was a United States law authored by Representative Chris Cox and Senator Ron Wyden, and signed into law on October 21 1998 by President Bill Clinton in an effort to promote and preserve the commercial, educational, and informational potential of . He also served in the White House as Senior Associate Counsel to President Ronald Regan. From 1978 to 1986, he specialized in venture capital and corporate finance with the international law firm of Latham & Watkins. In 1977, Chairman Cox received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He received a B.A. from the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission . Tickets for the mid-year dinner are priced at $1,500 for a table of 10, or $150 per person. For additional information on ticket sales, contact Jane Reilly at 201-612-0100, or nyfwa@aol.com. The New York Financial Writers' Association is a professional organization of business and financial editors and writers employed full-time or freelance for major print and broadcast news organizations headquartered or with bureaus in the New York metropolitan area. The NYFWA was founded in 1938. Throughout its 68-year history, the NYFWA had dedicated itself to raising and maintaining high standards of business and financial journalism. |
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