NBC's Martin Savidge to Emcee Press Club of Cleveland's Hall of Fame Induction.CLEVELAND -- Award-winning NBC-TV news correspondent Martin Savidge Martin Savidge is an American television news correspondent for NBC News. He previously worked for CNN and WJW, Cleveland, where he also worked with current NBC correspondent Kelly O'Donnell[1]. is returning home to emcee the 2006 Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame induction ceremony, The Press Club of Cleveland announced today. Charter One Bank will sponsor the event, which will be held at LaCentre in Westlake on Oct. 26. Since leaving Cleveland's TV channel 8 in 1996, Savidge has reported from eight war zones as a correspondent for CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. and now NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. . The Northeast Ohio native has covered such breaking news stories as the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the school shootings in Arkansas and Oregon, the wildfires in Florida and hurricanes Bonnie, Georges and Mitch. He was embedded with the Marines during the invasion of Iraq. He won the Edward R. Murrow award The Edward R. Murrow Award can mean:
Savidge will introduce the Class of 2006: Former Cleveland Press society editor Marge Alge, broadcaster Casey Coleman, Cleveland Jewish News editor Cynthia Dettelbach, photographer Ron Kuntz and retired Plain Dealer publisher Alex Machaskee. For ticket information, call 440-899-1222 or e-mail Lynn Bracic at pressclubcleveland@comcast.net. A cocktail reception, sponsored by The Plain Dealer, will be held at 6 p.m. with the dinner starting at 7. Forest City Enterprises, The Cleveland Jewish News and Broadcast Media Ideas are co-sponsors of the event. The Press Club of Cleveland is an organization for journalists and public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most and advertising professionals that provides social and education opportunities for its members, promotes excellence in journalism, attracts and educates high-quality career candidates and maintains a history of journalism The history of journalism, or the gathering and transmitting of news, spans the growth of technology and trade, marked by the advent of specialized techniques for gathering and disseminating information on a regular basis that has caused, as one history of journalism surmises, the in Cleveland. For more information about the club, go to www.pressclubcleveland.com |
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