lectures/awards

Awards

The Melcher Family Award for Excellence in Journalism, an Award for the best article by a Junior at Duke University is awarded to the best article by an undergraduate at Duke University. Guidelines for the award are listed at the link above.

The Futrell Award for Outstanding Achievement in Communications and Journalism is presented annually to a Duke University alumni for outstanding achievement in the field of communications and journalism and is administered by the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University's Sanford Institute of Public Policy.

Lectures and Programs

The Living History Program records interviews and lectures of prominent individuals who have been participants in national and international events. The program was initiated, and subsequently funded, by Jay Rutherfurd and now includes more than 35 interviews with prominent figures such as Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, James Schlesinger, Elie Wiesel, Les Aspin and Jesse Jackson.

The John Fisher Zeidman Memorial Colloquium on Communications annually convenes a panel comprising some of the most well-known journalists of our time to discuss the relationship between media and politics.

Ewing Lecture on Ethics in Journalism is an annual lecture made possible by James D. Ewing, who is publisher emeritus of The Keene Sentinel in New Hampshire and vice chairman of the Center for Foreign Journalists.