Terri Thompson, Former Director of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program, Honored as a 2020 Business News Visionary
DENVER, July 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Terri Thompson, who helped train a generation-plus of business and financial journalists, has been named a 2020 Business News Visionary, chosen by a panel of more than two dozen distinguished nominating judges – including past award recipients and top business news organization editors and reporters.
For 25 years, from 1993 until 2018, Thompson served as the director of Columbia University's prestigious Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism. During her tenure, 239 mid-career journalists completed the intensive nine-month program. Most fellows returned to new jobs, better beats, greater compensation, and often more-coveted employers.
Thompson is one of 52 prominent business and financial journalists to be recognized this year for their transformative contributions to the profession.
Her oral history and profile are available at www.NewsLuminaries.com and will be featured in a commemorative book to be published next year.
Thompson, herself, was a Bagehot Fellow during the 1980 to 1981 academic year. That experience, she recounts, "changed my life." It's a sentiment echoed by literally hundreds of Knight-Bagehot alumni.
Among Thompson's most significant accomplishments as Knight-Bagehot director was growing the fellowship's endowment almost ninefold, helping to ensure that the enrolled journalists will continue to receive free tuition and a living stipend.
Thompson is a past president of The New York Financial Writers' Association and editor of the 2001 anthology: "Writing About Business: The New Columbia Knight-Bagehot Guide to Economics & Business Journalism." Before assuming the directorship of the Knight-Bagehot program, Thompson worked for Purchasing Magazine, BusinessWeek, and U.S. News & World Report. Her first journalism-related job was for the Coralville Courier, a weekly newspaper located in a suburb of Iowa City.
The Business News Visionary Awards are a continuation of the Business News Luminary Awards, which, in 2000, honored the 100 top business and financial journalists of the 20th century.
"The goal of this project extends beyond the celebration of the specific men and women who are profiled," noted Dean Rotbart, chair and editor-in-chief of the Business News Visionary Awards. "It is also to educate the public about the high standards to which these and so many other dedicated journalists have adhered and to offer a proven playbook for other journalists and journalism students to follow."
Rotbart is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated, award-winning financial journalist, a former columnist with The Wall Street Journal, and a news entrepreneur.
Other announced recipients of the Business News Visionary Awards include Matt Quayle of CNBC; Stephen J. Adler of Reuters; Nina Easton of Sellers|Easton Media; Neil Cavuto and Maria Bartiromo of Fox News; and Henry Dubroff of Pacific Coast Business Times. New honorees are introduced weekly at NewsLuminaries.com.
The Business News Visionary and News Luminary Awards are made possible, in part, by the support of Monday Morning Radio, a weekly podcast produced in cooperation with the nonprofit Wizard Academy and its founders, Roy H. and Pennie Williams; and Robert L. Dilenschneider and Joan Avagliano of The Dilenschneider Group, providing an unsurpassed level of communications counsel to global clients.
Additional support is provided by eReleases, delivering personal service and exceptional value to every customer; American Small Business Institute, a nonprofit providing video education for small business owners; and Time in a Bottle Photography and its founder, Avital Rotbart, specializing in world-class portrait photography.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the 2020 BNVA commemorative book and related sponsorship opportunities will benefit business journalism education and scholarship programs.
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SOURCE NewsLuminaries.com
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