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• in 1967, Ray Miller, a Houston news director, hired future U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison as the first female television journalist in Texas?
• in 2006 the Philadelphia City Council proclaimed "Edie Huggins Day" in honor of her 40th anniversary as a reporter and journalist for WCAU-TV?
• in March 1997, Lucia Newman became the first United States journalist in twenty-seven years to be based in Cuba?
• in 1925, journalist and historian J. Marvin Hunter published a posthumous autobiography of John Wesley Hardin, an outlaw and gunfighter of the American Old West?
• despite pioneer Japanese journalist Kuga Katsunan's advocacy of Japanese nationalism, government censors shut his newspaper down 30 times between 1889 and 1896?
• Marvin Minoff, executive producer of The Nixon Interviews between former U.S. President Richard Nixon and journalist David Frost, began his career as a talent agent?
• Nicci French is the pseudonym for a couple of London journalists, Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, who write psychological thrillers together?
• American journalist Phelan Beale, Jr. was a son of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and a brother of Edith Bouvier Beale, whose lives were highlighted in the documentary Grey Gardens?
• in his first TV series, Crusader (CBS, 1955–1956), Brian Keith portrayed fictional journalist Matt Anders, who during the Cold War liberates oppressed people from communism?
• in his later years, Indian journalist C. Karunakara Menon was detested by the extremists of the Indian independence movement as well as the Government of British India?
• the Religion Newswriters Association awards scholarships for full-time journalists who wish to take college courses on religion?
• the footage filmed for the documentary film The Boys from Baghdad High had to be smuggled out of Iraq by journalists of many different news agencies?
• the global media alliance Project Klebnikov is dedicated to investigating the July 2004 murder of journalist Paul Klebnikov?
• the Barranquilla Group is the name of a collection of writers and journalists based in the Colombian city of the same name, and that members of it included Gabriel García Márquez and Álvaro Cepeda Samudio?
• the 2004 Dean v. Utica U.S. federal case expanded the First Amendment rights of high school journalists, which had been limited by the Supreme Court's 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier ruling?
• over the course of his 44 year career as a writer and editor with the Bend Bulletin, Phil Brogan trained numerous young journalists including Tom McCall, who later became governor of Oregon?
• pioneering African American journalist Larry Whiteside was part of an expert panel that chose the Major League Baseball All-Century Team?
• John Heriot, a late-eighteenth-century British journalist, was secretly funded to publish two pro-government newspapers?
• Jean Charpentier, press secretary for former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, was the first foreign journalist to interview General Augusto Pinochet following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état?
• journalist Michael C. Moynihan announced he would support the protest movement Everybody Draw Mohammed Day and post his favorite entries to the Reason magazine website?
• Louisiana journalist Robert Angers in 1977 established the International Relations Association of Acadiana to foster goodwill and commerce with French and Spanish-speaking nations?
• Puerto Rican journalist Hector Feliciano has shed light on an estimated 20,000 works of art stolen by the Nazis during World War II?
• Irish journalist Doireann Ní Bhriain was given one of the final Jacob's Awards in 1993 to commemorate her career with RTÉ Radio 1?
• Indonesian journalist, S. K. Trimurti, who often used a pseudonym in her reporting to avoid arrest by Dutch colonial authorities, later became the country's first minister of labor?
• 1992 was the only year the American Society of Journalists and Authors presented the Conscience-in-Media Award to more than one journalist?
• Austrian journalist Günther Nenning is nicknamed Auhirsch, meaning "meadow deer"?
• German record producer and journalist Uwe Nettelbeck changed the face of German rock music in the early 1970s?
• British journalist and Liberal politician Colin Coote was an editor of the The Daily Telegraph for 14 years?
• American journalist William Tobin was the first correspondent for the Associated Press to be based in Juneau, Alaska?
• Bob Bruce of the Abilene Reporter-News in Texas was considered a "superb raconteur" and versatile journalist whose "institutional memory" empowered his newsroom colleagues?
• Carlos Monsiváis, who was a Mexican political activist and journalist, won more than 33 awards during his lifetime?
• Jay Barbree is the only journalist to have covered every manned space flight in the United States, beginning with Alan Shepherd's maiden voyage in 1961?
• Ah Jook Ku, a journalist and writer based in Hawaii, was the first Asian American reporter for the Associated Press, as well as the first Asian American female reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin?
• Adrienne Beames, the daughter of Australian rules footballer, first-class cricketer, and journalist Percy Beames, was the first woman to break the 3-hour barrier in the marathon?
• American journalist Alan Cabal was one of the luminaries of New York City's occult movement during the "occult renaissance" started in the 1960s?
• Welsh military pilot and journalist, Wing Commander Patrick Gibbs, published two volumes of wartime memoirs 49 years apart: Not Peace, But a Sword (1943) and Torpedo Leader (1992)?
• 1,200 journalists, human rights advocates, and leftist activists have been killed in the Philippines as a result of Gloria Arroyo's counter-insurgency program "Oplan Bantay Laya"?