Associate Director of External Affairs | Cheryl Reitan |
creitan@d.umn.edu | (218) 726-8996
May 1, 2003
Susan Beasy Latto, Director of Public
Relations 218 726-8830
UMD Presents 2003
Chancellor's Outstanding Media Person Award
to Dennis Anderson of WDIO TV
UMD Chancellor Kathryn A. Martin presented
the 2003 Outstanding Media Person Award to WDIO TV news anchor Dennis Anderson
at award ceremonies held April 30 at UMD. The award is presented annually by
UMD to recognize excellence in professional broadcast and print media.
Anderson has been a WDIO TV broadcast journalist since 1969. His newscasts
have won an Edward R. Murrow award, and an Emmy Award; and most recently won
three
Eric Severeid awards for coverage of the tragic Paul Wellstone plane crash.
He has covered three presidential visits to Duluth, and also anchored a live
broadcast when, then presidential candidate, George W. Bush, campaigned
in Duluth. He has been invited to the White House and State Department on four
occasions
for briefings with presidents and cabinet members.
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