News 12 Westchester Nominated For 2 Society of Professional Journalists, Deadline Club Awards
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(Yonkers, NY, April 15 2010) – News 12 Westchester received finalist stature for two Society of Professional Journalists, Deadline Club Awards. News 12 Westchester Reporters Tara Rosenblum and Grace Noone and Photographer/Editors Kenneth Pelczar, Greg Marsh, Paul Simone, and Eric Leeds are finalists in the category of Spot News Reporting for their series of reports, Millionaire Murder Mystery. Reporter, Antoinette Biordi, and Photographer/Editor Jack Kearney are finalists in the category of Feature Reporting for Pajama Party.
“I continue to be impressed by the quality of our news team and their dedication to their craft,” said Janine Rose, News 12 Westchester News Director. “They make me proud every day”.
Winners will be announced at the Annual Awards Dinner on Monday June 7, at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan. The Deadline Club in New York City has been around for eighty years and is one of the largest chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists. Members include professionals working in broadcast, print, online and journalism education. The most important mission of SPJ and its chapters is fostering and defending freedom of the press under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
News 12 Westchester is part of News 12 Networks, the country’s first, largest, and most watched 24-hour local television news network. News 12 Westchester launched in 1995 and today remains a cable exclusive service, reaching more than 270,000 households in Westchester. News 12 is owned and operated by Cablevision Systems Corporation.
Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC) is one of the nation’s leading media and entertainment companies. Its assets include its cable television operations, which provide industry-leading services to more than 3 million New York area households, and its award-winning television networks, which deliver some of today’s most watched programming to hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide. A state-of-the-art cable system enables the company to offer a full suite of advanced residential and business communications services that include its iO TV® digital television, Optimum Online® high-speed Internet, Optimum Voice® digital voice, Optimum WiFi® wireless Internet, and its Optimum Lightpath® integrated business communications solutions. Cablevision also serves the New York area with compelling local content through News 12 Networks, a local news leader; MSG Varsity, a suite of television and online services covering high school activities; and, Newsday Media Group, a business unit that includes Newsday, Long Island’s leading daily newspaper. In addition, through Rainbow Media Holdings LLC, Cablevision operates successful programming and entertainment businesses, such as AMC, IFC, Sundance Channel, WE tv and IFC Entertainment. The company also owns and operates Clearview Cinemas, which includes Manhattan’s famed Ziegfeld Theatre, a frequent and historic venue for film premieres and events.
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