Last Updated: April 06, 2000
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ASNE on the move
McMasters wins Zenger award
Paul McMasters, First Amendment ombudsman at The Freedom Forum,
is the recipient of the 2000 John Peter and Catherine Zenger Award for
Freedom of the Press and the People's Right to Know.
McMasters is one of the nation's leading experts on First Amendment
and press issues and was a great help to ASNE’s 1997 Your Right to Know
project.
The award is presented by the University of Arizona. McMasters will
receive the award in an April 27 presentation in Paradise Valley, Ariz.
McMasters, is former associate editorial director of USA Today and was
executive director of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University
from 1992 to 1995.