Last Updated: May 20, 1999
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ASNE on the move
Richard M. Schmidt Jr., ASNE legal counsel, received The Media
Institute’s Freedom of Speech Award at a dinner on Oct. 29 in Washington.
The award was presented by Washington Post ombudsman Geneva Overholser.
Schmidt, a partner in the Washington law firm of Cohn and Marks, spoke
about the challenges of protecting the First Amendment over the 30 years
that he has represented ASNE as legal counsel.
He told the group that he had an interest in First Amendment issues
at the earliest age. "My father claimed that as a child, I loved to go
into fire stations and yell ‘theater’!"
The Media Institute is a non-profit, First Amendment organization headquartered
in Washington.
