Gridiron Awards Dinner 2007 / Wisconsin Excellence in Journalism Competition

Event Details

Sat, April 28, 2007
5:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Cost: $65.00 Individuals / $500.00 Tables of 8 / $25.00 Students
Location: InterContinental Hotel Milwaukee
139 E. Kilbourn Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Map / Driving Directions

To register for event, please contact:

Joette Richards (262) 894-2224

milwaukeepressclub@gmail.com
www.milwaukeepressclub.org

Washington Post’s Milton Coleman named Press Club’s 2007 Sacred Cat honoree

MILWAUKEE, WI—The Milwaukee Press Club today announced that Washington Post Deputy Managing Editor Milton Coleman will be the 2007 Sacred Cat Award honoree. He will accept the award at the club’s annual Gridiron Dinner, April 28 at the InterContinental Hotel in downtown Milwaukee. The event also will honor 2007 Headliner Sheldon Lubar and the winners of the 2006 Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism competition.

Coleman is deputy managing editor of The Washington Post. He joined the newspaper in 1976 as a reporter on the Metro staff, where he covered politics and government in Montgomery County and the District. After successive promotions, he was named to his current position in July 1996.

Coleman began his journalism career as a reporter for the Milwaukee Courier. Born in Milwaukee, he received a bachelor of fine arts degree in music history and literature from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, which in 1998 named him as a Distinguished Alumnus. He has served as a jury chairman for the Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, as a judge for the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Awards, the Associated Press Sports Editors, National Association of Black Journalists and Asian American Journalist Association awards, and as a judge and chairman of the judging committee for the Seldon Ring Award for Investigative Reporting.

Coleman is also a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Association of Minority Media Executives, the Inter-American Press Association and treasurer-designate of the board of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, where he will succeed the Journal Sentinel’s Marty Kaiser in 2008.

Coleman was a Boy Scout leader for more than 20 years, and a recipient of the District Award of Merit and the Silver Beaver Award, the highest award given to volunteer leaders. In 1994, he was one of five Scout leaders in the nation given the Spirit of Scouting Award by the National Council of Boy Scouts of America for outstanding contributions to Scouting in America’s inner cities.

“We’re thrilled to have Mr. Coleman accept the Sacred Cat,” said Jon Anne Willow, Press Club President. “He is not only an incredibly accomplished journalist and native son, but a dynamic and insightful communicator, and we’re looking forward to hearing him speak at the Gridiron event.”

Tickets for the Gridiron Dinner are available by contacting Gloria Gappa-Grundman at 414-588-9571 or milwaukeepressclub@gmail.com, or online at milwaukeepressclub.org. Cost is $65 per individual or $500 for a table of eight. Click here to view the invitation and for event details.

Founded in 1885, the Milwaukee Press Club is the oldest continuously operating press club in North America. Its 300-plus members represent a diverse community of media-focused professionals representing nearly every local media outlet, and with a strong constituency of public relations and marketing professionals and individuals with an interest in the press.

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