Comedian and actor Jerry Stiller ’50 will present the Lifetime Achievement Award in honor of the late Dick Clark ’51. Clark’s widow, Kari Clark, and daughter, Cindy Clark ’86, will attend the ceremony to accept the award.

Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan, co-hosts of ABC’s “LIVE with Kelly and Michael,” will present the Fred Dressler Leadership Award to Anne Sweeney, co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney/ABC Television Group.

Donny Deutsch, chairman of Deutsch Inc., will present the i3 award for impact, innovation and influence to Nate Silver, statistician, writer and founder of fivethirtyeight.com.

The awards ceremony will be emceed by David Muir, weekend anchor of “ABC World News” and co-anchor of “20/20” on ABC.

Luncheon co-chairs are John Sykes, president of Entertainment Enterprises Clear Channel Media Holdings; Melinda Witmer, executive vice president and chief video & content officer with Time Warner Cable; and David Zaslav, president and CEO of Discovery Communications.

In addition to the special awards, seven juried journalism awards will be presented.

The Mirror Awards are the most important awards for recognizing excellence in media industry reporting. Established by the Newhouse School in 2006, the awards honor the reporters, editors and teams of writers who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public’s benefit.

For information about ticket and table sales for the ceremony, see the online registration page or contact Jean Brooks at 315.443.5711 or mirror@syr.edu. For media inquiries, contact Wendy Loughlin at 315.443.2785 or wsloughl@syr.edu.

The finalists, chosen from a pool of over 300 entries by a group of journalists and journalism educators, are:

Best Single Article – Traditional/Legacy Media

• Ken Auletta, “Citizens Jain,” The New Yorker
• Jeff Bercovici, “The Next Media Jackpot: The Fight For The $1 Trillion Hispanic Market,” Forbes
• Joe Hagan, “Truth or Consequences,” Texas Monthly
• Tara Murtha, “How Two Photojournalists Are Taking on the City’s Gun Crisis,” Philadelphia Weekly
• Chris Robbins & Sue Mende, “An udder mess: How the Atlantic got it all wrong in St. Lawrence County,” Watertown Daily Times
• John Seabrook, “Streaming Dreams,” The New Yorker

Best Single Article – Digital Media

• Michael Calderone, “At The 2012 Conventions, 15,000 Journalists Search For A Story,” Huffington Post
• Joe Eskenazi, “Top 5 Ways Bleacher Report Rules the World!,” SF Weekly
• Hugh Hart, “Fast-Frame Hobbit Dangles Prospect of Superior Cinema, But Will Theaters Bite?,” Wired
• Adrienne LaFrance, “How to make your journalism project succeed on Kickstarter,” Nieman Journalism Lab
• Bret Schulte, “‘This is my paper. This is my town,’” Columbia Journalism Review
• Joe Strupp, “How A Right-Wing Group Is Infiltrating State News Coverage,” MediaMatters

Best Single Story – Radio, Television, Cable or Online Broadcast Media

• Bob Garfield & On The Media Staff, “First And Worst,” On The Media
• Bob Garfield & On The Media Staff, “May I Use This Quote?,” On The Media
• Brooke Gladstone & On The Media Staff, “Checking In On Fact Checking,” On The Media
• Doug Crews, Beth Pike, Stephen Hudnell & Scott Charton, “Deadline in Disaster,” Missouri Press Association
• Sarah Richards, “Voices for Sale or Rent: Election Ads,” Canadian Broadcast Corporation

Best Profile – Traditional/Legacy or Digital Media

• Adrian Chen, “Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web,” Gawker
• Clyde Haberman, “Arthur O. Sulzberger, Publisher Who Transformed The Times for New Era, Dies at 86,” The New York Times
• Adam McCauley, “Overexposed: A Photographer’s War With PTSD,” The Atlantic
• Richard Rys, “Little Boy Lost,” Philadelphia Magazine
• Michael Shapiro, “Six degrees of aggregation: How The Huffington Post ate the Internet,” Columbia Journalism Review

Best Commentary – Traditional/Legacy Media

• Eric Alterman, “The Mainstream Media’s Trivial Pursuit of Campaign 2012,” “Shut Up About the Jews Already…,” “The Washington Post’s Problem,” The Nation
• Syed Irfan Ashraf, “Hard times for journalists,” “The face of confidence,” “Military-media relationship,” Dawn, Pique
• James Poniewozik, “Check, Please,” “Stealing the Shows,” “Truth Vigilantes, Attack!,” Time Magazine
• Rem Rieder, “Can CNN and Jeff Zucker revive Facts?,” “Truth-Squadding Mission,” “The ‘Greater Truth’ Defense,” USA TODAY, American Journalism Review

Best Commentary – Digital Media

• Eric Alterman, “Think Again: Bad News About the News,” “Think Again: The Media and Climate Science: ADHD or Deliberate Deception?,” “Think Again: The Mistaken Bias of The New York Times’s Public Editor,” American Progress
• Tom McGeveran, “Will someone please buy ‘The Village Voice’ back from Phoenix?,” “Tina Brown’s Newsweek ‘takes a leap into the future,’ which is oblivion,” “The end of The Daily wasn’t just about Rupert Murdoch’s money,” Capital NY
• Sara Morrison, “Appending Larry,” “The limits of Internet research,” “‘Open’ in the age of live-tweeting,” Columbia Journalism Review
• Michael Moynihan, “Disinformation,” “Racial Profiling,” “Hitler on the Campaign Trail,” Tablet Mag
• Craig Silverman, “‘Confirmed’ and ‘sources’ may not mean what you think they do on Twitter,” “In real-time journalism, declaring what you won’t report can be just as important as what you will,” “False Paterno death reports highlight journalists’ hunger for glory,” Poynter

John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting

• Jodi Enda, “Staying Alive,” American Journalism Review
• Brooke Gladstone, Marianne McCune & Sarah Abdurrahman, “Mexican Media: Es Muy Complicado,” On The Media
• Lee Hancock, “The Rape Was Not the Only Problem,” The Ochberg Society
• Jonathan Stray, “Metrics, metrics everywhere: How do we measure the impact of journalism?,” Nieman Journalism Lab

An awards ceremony will be held on Wednesday, June 5, from 11:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Cipriani 42nd Street, 110 E. 42nd St., New York City. Registration is available online. Follow on Twitter at #Mirrors13.

Anne Sweeney, co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney/ABC Television Group, will be honored with the Fred Dressler Leadership Award. Noted statistician Nate Silver will be honored with the i3 award for impact, innovation and influence.

In addition, the school will honor late TV and radio personality Dick Clark ’51 with the Lifetime Achievement Award. His widow, Kari Clark, and daughter, Cindy Clark ’86, will attend the ceremony. Clark was an alumnus of Syracuse University.

The Mirror Awards are the most important awards for recognizing excellence in media industry reporting. Established by the Newhouse School in 2006, the awards honor the reporters, editors and teams of writers who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public’s benefit.

For information about ticket and table sales for the ceremony, contact Jean Brooks at 315.443.5711 or mirror@syr.edu. For media inquiries, contact Wendy Loughlin at 315.443.2785 or wsloughl@syr.edu.

Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will host the seventh annual Mirror Awards ceremony on Wednesday, June 5, from 11:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Cipriani 42nd Street, 110 E. 42nd St., New York City. Follow on Twitter at #Mirrors13.

Anne Sweeney, co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney/ABC Television Group, will be honored with the Fred Dressler Leadership Award. Noted statistician Nate Silver will be honored with the i-3 award for impact, innovation and influence.

In addition, the school will honor late TV and radio personality Dick Clark ’51 with the Lifetime Achievement Award. His widow, Kari Clark, and daughter, Cindy Clark ’86, will attend the ceremony. Clark was an alumnus of Syracuse University.

Anne Sweeney

Anne Sweeney oversees ABC Studios, the ABC Owned Television Stations Group and the ABC Television Network, as well as Disney Channels Worldwide. She is also responsible for cable networks ABC Family and SOAPnet; the company’s equity interest in A+E Networks; and Disney’s publishing imprint, Hyperion.

In 2005, Sweeney led the industry into the digital era when the Disney/ABC Television Group became the first media company to put television content on new platforms. The group was the first to leverage iTunes, the first to introduce an ad-supported full episode player online and the first to deliver an application for the iPad.

Sweeney previously served as president of ABC Cable Networks Group and Disney Channels Worldwide, where under her leadership Disney Channel more than quintupled its subscriber base. She also oversaw the successful launch of the 24-hour channel Toon Disney (now known as Disney XD) and SOAPnet.

Previously she was chairman and CEO of FX Networks Inc., where she presided over the launch of two basic cable networks, FX and FXM: Movies from Fox, Hollywood’s first studio-based movie network. Before joining Fox, Sweeney spent 12 years at Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite in various executive positions, where she oversaw Nickelodeon’s international expansion.

Sweeney has repeatedly been named the “Most Powerful Woman in Entertainment” by The Hollywood Reporter, one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” by Fortune and one of “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women” by Forbes. She was inducted into the Halls of Fame of the Cable Center and Broadcasting & Cable and the American Advertising Federation’s Advertising Hall of Achievement. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Golden Mike Award from the Broadcasters Foundation of America; the Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications; the Vanguard Award for Distinguished Leadership from the National Cable & Telecommunications Association; the President’s Citation from the Producers Guild of America; the Muse Award from New York Women in Film & Television; the STAR Award from American Women in Radio and Television; the Lucy Award from Women in Film; and the President’s Award from the Cable Television Public Affairs Association. Women in Cable & Telecommunications has honored her as Executive of the Year and Woman of the Year, and its Southern California chapter honored her with the Advocate Leader Award.

The Fred Dressler Leadership Award is given to individuals or organizations that have made distinct, consistent and unique contributions to the public’s understanding of the media. Past recipients include Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast (2011); Bloomberg (2010); Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post (2009); political journalist Tim Russert (posthumously, 2008); and Peter Bart, editor-in-chief of Variety (2007).

Nate Silver

Nate Silver is a statistician, writer and founder of the New York Times blog FiveThirtyEight.com. He also developed PECOTA (Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm), a system for forecasting baseball performance that was bought by Baseball Prospectus. He was named to TIME magazine’s TIME 100 in 2009.

The i-3 award is given to individuals or organizations that have made a profound impact on the media landscape or have captured the public’s imagination about the potential or importance of the media in a unique way. Past recipients include the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (2012); Dennis Crowley ’98 and Naveen Selvadurai, co-founders of Foursquare (2011); Twitter (2010); Obama for America New Media Department/Blue State Digital (2009); and CNN/YouTube (2008).

The Mirror Awards are the most important awards for recognizing excellence in media industry reporting. Established by the Newhouse School in 2006, the awards honor the reporters, editors and teams of writers who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public’s benefit. In addition to the special awards, juried awards will be presented in seven categories:

• Best Single Article – Traditional/Legacy Media ($1,000 prize)
• Best Single Article – Digital Media ($1,000 prize)
• Best Single Story – Radio, Television, Cable or Online Broadcast Media ($1,000 prize)
• Best Profile – Traditional/Legacy or Digital Media ($1,000 prize)
• Best Commentary – Traditional Media ($1,000 prize)
• Best Commentary – Digital Media ($1,000 prize)
• John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting ($5,000 prize)

For information about ticket and table sales for the ceremony, contact Jean Brooks at 315.443.5711 or mirror@syr.edu. For media inquiries, contact Wendy Loughlin at 315.443.2785 or wsloughl@syr.edu.

Award categories include:

• Best Single Article – Traditional/Legacy Media ($1,000 prize)
• Best Single Article – Digital Media ($1,000 prize)
• Best Single Story – Radio, Television, Cable or Online Broadcast Media ($1,000 prize)
• Best Profile – Traditional/Legacy or Digital Media ($1,000 prize)
• Best Commentary – Traditional Media ($1,000 prize)
• Best Commentary – Digital Media ($1,000 prize)
• John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting ($5,000 prize)

Established by the Newhouse School in 2006, the Mirror Awards honor the reporters, editors and teams of writers who “hold a mirror to their own industry” for the public’s benefit. They are the most important awards for recognizing excellence in media industry reporting.

The competition is open to anyone who conducts reporting, commentary or criticism of the media industries in a format intended for a mass audience. Eligible work includes print, broadcast and online editorial content focusing on the development or distribution of news and entertainment. All entries must have been published or broadcast between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2012.

Entries are evaluated based on three criteria: Excellence of craft; framing of the issue; and appropriateness for the intended audience. Winners are chosen by a group of journalists and journalism educators. An awards ceremony will be held in June 2013 in New York City.

For more information, contact Jean Brooks at (315) 443-5711 or mirror@syr.edu.

The winners, chosen by a group of journalists and journalism educators, are:

• Best Single Article, Traditional/Legacy Media: Adam Lashinsky, “How Apple works: Inside the world’s biggest startup” (Fortune)
• Best Single Article, Digital Media: Rhonda Roland Shearer and Malik Ayub Sumbal, “Mrs. Bhutto’s Murder Anniversary Part 1: Troubling Double Standard, American photojournalism’s different treatment of foreign victims” (iMediaEthics)
• Best Profile, Traditional/Legacy Media: Ken Auletta, “Changing Times” (The New Yorker)
• Best Profile, Digital Media: Joe Pompeo, “The road ahead for The Huffington Post: Nine months and a merger later, ‘Capital-J Journalism’ is still a work in progress” (Capital New York)
• Best Commentary, Traditional/Legacy Media: Anna Holmes, “The Disposable Woman”; “Anna Holmes on Donald Trump’s Sexism”; “The best TV criticism’s ink is pink, but powerful” (The New York Times, The Washington Post)
• Best Commentary, Digital Media: Rebecca Traister, “The Soap Opera Is Dead! Long Live The Soap Opera!”; “30 Rock’ takes on feminist hypocrisy–and its own”; “Seeing ‘Bridesmaids’ is a social responsibility” (Salon, New York Times Magazine)
• John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting: Peter Maass, “The Toppling” (The New Yorker and ProPublica)

Leo Hindery Jr., managing partner with InterMedia Partners, presented the Higgins Award, which was established this year by the Newhouse School in honor of the late Broadcasting & Cable reporter and funded by a gift from Discovery Communications and Time Warner Cable Inc. The award carries a $5,000 cash prize; the remaining journalism awards carry a $1,000 prize.

In addition, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation received the i-3 award for impact, innovation and influence, presented by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. Knight President and CEO Alberto Ibargüen accepted the award.

Luncheon co-chairs were David Levy, president of sales, distribution and sports for Turner Broadcasting System; Melinda Witmer, executive vice president and chief video and content officer for Time Warner Cable; and David Zaslav, president and CEO of Discovery Communications.

The Mirror Awards are the most important awards for honoring excellence in media industry reporting. Established by the Newhouse School in 2006, the awards honor the reporters, editors and teams of writers who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public’s benefit.

The luncheon event, which will take place June 13 from 11:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at The Plaza Hotel in New York City, will also include the presentation of six additional juried journalism awards recognizing excellence in media industry reporting. CNN’s Anderson Cooper will emcee the event. Follow on Twitter via #Mirrors12.

In addition, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will receive the i-3 award for impact, innovation and influence, presented by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. Knight President and CEO Alberto Ibargüen will accept the award.

Luncheon co-chairs are David Levy, president of sales, distribution and sports for Turner Broadcasting System; Melinda Witmer, executive vice president and chief video and content officer for Time Warner Cable; and David Zaslav, president and CEO of Discovery Communications.

The Mirror Awards are the most important awards for honoring excellence in media industry reporting. Established by Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 2006, the awards honor the reporters, editors and teams of writers who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public’s benefit.

For more information, contact Jean Brooks at 315.443.5711 or mirror@syr.edu.

The i-3 award is given to individuals or organizations that have made a profound impact on the media landscape or have captured the public’s imagination about the potential or importance of the media in a unique way. The Knight Foundation was chosen as this year’s recipient for redefining the role philanthropy can play in media innovation. The foundation has invested over $300 million in journalism and media innovation in the last 10 years. Past recipients of the i-3 award include Dennis Crowley ’98 and Naveen Selvadurai, co-founders of Foursquare (2011); Twitter (2010); Obama for America New Media Department/Blue State Digital (2009); and CNN/YouTube (2008).

In addition, seven juried journalism awards, including the John M. Higgins Award, will be presented at the luncheon ceremony. The Newhouse School established the Higgins Award to honor the late Broadcasting & Cable business editor. One of the most well-respected journalists of his time, Higgins died in 2006 at the age of 45. The award is supported by a gift from Discovery Communications and Time Warner Cable Inc. and carries a $5,000 cash prize. Each of the additional juried journalism awards carries a $1,000 cash prize. Award categories include:

• Best Single Article, Traditional/Legacy Media
• Best Single Article, Digital Media
• Best Profile, Traditional/Legacy Media
• Best Profile, Digital Media
• Best Commentary, Traditional/Legacy Media
• Best Commentary, Digital Media
• John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting

A list of finalists in each category is available in the News section of this site.

The Higgins Award will be presented by David Zaslav, president and CEO of Discovery Communications, who is also serving as a luncheon co-chair. David Levy, president of sales, distribution and sports for Turner Broadcasting System; and Melinda Witmer, executive vice president and chief video and content officer for Time Warner Cable, are also co-chairs.

The luncheon will be held from 11:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. CNN’s Anderson Cooper will emcee the event. Follow on Twitter at #Mirrors12. Information about sponsorship opportunities and online registration for the luncheon is available online.

The Mirror Awards, established by the Newhouse School in 2006, honor the reporters, editors and teams of writers who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public’s benefit.

For more information, contact Jean Brooks at 315.443.5711 or mirror@syr.edu. For press inquiries, contact Wendy Loughlin at 315.443.2785 or wsloughl@syr.edu.

Finalists, chosen by a group of journalists and journalism educators, are:

Best Single Article, Traditional/Legacy Media

• Jodi Enda, “Politico, Act II”  (American Journalism Review)
• Felix Gillette, “The Rise and Inglorious Fall of Myspace” (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Adam Lashinsky, “How Apple works: Inside the world’s biggest startup”  (Fortune)
• Gabriel Sherman, “The Elephant in the Green Room” (New York Magazine)
• Emily Steel and Geoffrey A. Fowler, “Big Brands Like Facebook, But They Don’t Like to Pay” (Wall Street Journal)

Best Single Article, Digital Media

• Joshua Benton, “That was quick: Four lines of code is all it takes for The New York Times’ paywall to come tumbling down” (Nieman Journalism Lab)
• Paul Ford, “Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings?” (New York Magazine)
• Lauren Kirchner, “AOL Settled with Unpaid ‘Volunteers’ for $15 Million” (Columbia Journalism Review)
• Mallary Jean Tenore, “In real-time, journalists’ tweets contribute to a ‘raw draft’ of history” (Poynter)
• Rhonda Roland Shearer and Malik Ayub Sumbal, “Mrs. Bhutto’s Murder Anniversary Part 1: Troubling Double Standard, American photojournalism’s different treatment of foreign victims” (iMediaEthics)

Best Profile, Traditional/Legacy Media

• Ken Auletta, “Changing Times” (The New Yorker)
• Felix Gillette, “Demand Media’s Planet of the Algorithms” (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Vanessa Grigoriadis, “Maharishi Arianna” (New York Magazine)
• Evan Osnos, “The Han Dynasty” (The New Yorker)

Best Profile, Digital Media

• Danny Gold, “The Man Who Makes Money Publishing Your Nude Pics” (The Awl)
• Joe Pompeo, “The road ahead for The Huffington Post: Nine months and a merger later, ‘Capital-J Journalism’ is still a work in progress” (Capital New York)
• Rachel Sklar, “Chelsea Handler Has It Covered” (Change The Ratio)

Best Commentary, Traditional/Legacy Media

• Eric Alterman (The Nation)
  • “How Low Will the ‘Washington Post’ Go?”
  • “How Rupert Murdoch Buys Friends and Influences People”
  • “The Agony and Ecstasy—and ‘Disgrace’—of Steve Jobs”
• Syed Irfan Ashraf (The DAWN Media Group/Individualland)
  • “Cost of self-censorship”
  • “Media’s apologetic professionals”
  • “A synthetic image”
• John Gapper (Financial Times)
  • “Huffington is right to take the cash”
  • “The conflict of interest in free news”
  • “Innovators don’t ignore customers”
• Anna Holmes (The New York Times, The Washington Post)
  • “The Disposable Woman”
  • “Anna Holmes on Donald Trump’s Sexism”
  • “The best TV criticism’s ink is pink, but powerful”

Best Commentary, Digital Media

• Gavin Polone (Vulture/New York Magazine)
  • “Polone: Why TV Networks Don’t Need to Worry About Netflix and Hulu’s Original Programming”
  • “Polone’s Four-Step Plan for Saving NBC”
  • “Polone’s Hollywood Cost-Cutting Solution No. 2: Stop the Pricey Producer Deals”
• Rem Rieder (American Journalism Review)
  • “The Incredible Shrinking Rupert”
  • “The Wall Street Journal Careens off the Rails”
  • “Passing on Rumors”
• Jack Shafer (Reuters Blog)
  • “The trial of Stephen Glass”
  • “Who gets to be anonymous?”
  • “The apotheosis of Steve Jobs”
• Mallary Jean Tenore (Poynter)
  • “How accessible do journalists really want to be?”
  • “Journalists value precise language, except when it comes to describing ‘minorities’”
  • “Have newsrooms relaxed standards, sanctions for fabrication and plagiarism?”
• Rebecca Traister (Salon, New York Times Magazine)
  • “The Soap Opera Is Dead! Long Live The Soap Opera!”
  • “‘30 Rock’ takes on feminist hypocrisy — and its own”
  • “Seeing ‘Bridesmaids’ is a social responsibility”

John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting

• Jodi Enda, “The Bloomberg Juggernaut” (American Journalism Review)
• On The Media Team: Brooke Gladstone, Bob Garfield, Katya Rogers, Nazanin Rafsanjani, Jamison York, Mike Vuolo, Sarah Abdurrahman, PJ Vogt, Alex Goldman, “Does NPR Have a Liberal Bias?” (NPR/On The Media)
• Peter Maass, “The Toppling” (The New Yorker and ProPublica)
• Seth Mnookin, “The Kingdom and the Paywall” (New York Magazine)
• Brian Rosenthal, “In Focus: Investigative Journalism students used questionably ethical reporting tactics, sources say” and “‘Dismantling of a legacy’: The rise and fall of David Protess” (The Daily Northwestern)

The awards ceremony will be held from 11:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at The Plaza Hotel, Fifth Avenue at Central Park South, New York City. CNN’s Anderson Cooper will emcee the event. Information about sponsorship levels and registration is available online. Follow on Twitter via #Mirrors12.

The Mirror Awards, established by the Newhouse School in 2006, honor the reporters, editors and teams of writers who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public’s benefit.

For more information, contact Jean Brooks at (315) 443-5711 or jabroo01@syr.edu. For press inquiries, contact Wendy Loughlin at (315) 443-2785 or wsloughl@syr.edu.

Cooper has covered nearly all major news events around the world, often reporting from the scene. He has also played a pivotal role in CNN’s political coverage, and has anchored from conventions and moderated several presidential debates. He is also the host and executive producer of the CNN daytime talk show “Anderson,” and provides reports for CBS’s “60 Minutes.” His memoir “Dispatches from the Edge” was a best-seller.

He was previously with ABC and, before that, Channel One News, where he held several different positions, including anchor, reporter and correspondent.

Cooper and “Anderson Cooper 360°” have won several major journalism awards, including multiple Emmys.

The luncheon ceremony will include the presentation of juried awards in seven categories:

*    Best Single Article, Traditional/Legacy Media ($1,000 prize)
*    Best Single Article, Digital Media ($1,000 prize)
*    Best Profile, Traditional/Legacy Media ($1,000 prize)
*    Best Profile, Digital Media ($1,000 prize)
*    Best Commentary, Traditional/Legacy Media ($1,000 prize)
*    Best Commentary, Digital Media ($1,000 prize)
*    John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting ($5,000 prize)

The Mirror Awards are the most important awards for recognizing excellence in media industry reporting. Established by the Newhouse School in 2006, the awards honor the reporters, editors and teams of writers who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public’s benefit. Finalists and winners are chosen by a group of journalists and journalism educators.

For more information, contact Jean Brooks at 315.443.5711 or mirror@syr.edu. For press inquiries, contact Wendy Loughlin at 315.443.2785 or wsloughl@syr.edu.

The ceremony will include the presentation of juried awards in seven categories:

*    Best Single Article, Traditional/Legacy Media ($1,000 prize)
*    Best Single Article, Digital Media ($1,000 prize)
*    Best Profile, Traditional/Legacy Media ($1,000 prize)
*    Best Profile, Digital Media ($1,000 prize)
*    Best Commentary, Traditional/Legacy Media ($1,000 prize)
*    Best Commentary, Digital Media ($1,000 prize)
*    John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth/Enterprise Reporting ($5,000 prize)

This year, the Newhouse School established the John M. Higgins Award to honor the late Broadcasting & Cable business editor. One of the most well-respected journalists of his time, Higgins died in 2006 at the age of 45. The award is supported by a gift from Discovery Communications and Time Warner Cable Inc.

The Mirror Awards are the most important awards for recognizing excellence in media industry reporting. Established by the Newhouse School in 2006, the awards honor the reporters, editors and teams of writers who hold a mirror to their own industry for the public’s benefit. Finalists and winners are chosen by a group of journalists and journalism educators.

For more information, contact Jean Brooks at 315.443.5711 or mirror@syr.edu. For press inquiries, contact Wendy Loughlin at 315.443.2785 or wsloughl@syr.edu.