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AEP News ArchivesCNN correspondent to speak at Student Publishing Awards presentationWinners of Weekly Reader's Student Publishing Contest to be honored with address from award-winning broadcast journalist Candy Crowley LOGAN TWP, NJ--March 3, 2009--Candy Crowley, senior political analyst at CNN's Washington, DC, bureau, will be the guest of honor at the 2009 Student Publishing Award Luncheon, where she will address the authors and editors of the year's best nonfiction student writing. Sponsored by Weekly Reader Publishing and organized by the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP), the National Student Publishing Contest recognizes the best nonfiction publications and individual writing by students in grades 3-12. A total of six awards will be presented on June 11 at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, DC, in conjunction with the annual AEP Summit. Contest winners, who come from all over the U.S., receive free round-trip airfare to the presentation, courtesy of Continental Airlines. Candy Crowley began her broadcast journalism career in Washington, DC, as a newsroom assistant for Metromedia radio station WASH. She has served as an anchor for Mutual Broadcasting and as a general assignment and White House correspondent for the Associated Press, where she covered most of the Reagan era before moving on to NBC-TV to become a general assignment correspondent in NBC's Washington bureau. Crowley has covered the presidential campaigns of Pat Buchanan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Howard Dean, Bob Dole, Jesse Jackson, Edward Kennedy, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan and Paul Tsongas, among others. Since the presidential nomination of Jimmy Carter, she has covered all but one of the national political conventions. She was also granted an exclusive sit-down interview with President George W. Bush days before he left office. Over her career, Candy Crowley has won numerous journalism
honors. In 2005, Crowley was honored with the Joan Shorenstein Barone Award for
excellence in journalism for her reporting on the 2004 presidential election.
In 2004, she won the Gracie Allen Award in the National News Story-Series category
for "War Stories," as well as a National Headliner award and a Cine
award for "Fit to Kill." In 2003, Crowley won an Emmy for her work on
CNN Presents' "Enemy Within." She won the 1999 DuPont-Columbia University
Silver Baton Award for her coverage of the impeachment and trial of President
Bill Clinton. She won the 2003 and 1998 Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting
on Congress from the National Press Foundation and the 1997 Joan Shorenstein Barone
Award for Excellence in Journalism for her coverage of Bob Dole's campaign for
the presidency. She received the Associated Press Broadcasters' Award for spot
news reporting for her coverage of the Reagan campaign, as well as the AP Award
for in-depth coverage of the 1980 Reagan campaign. Her reporting on more than
a dozen 1992 U.S. Senate campaigns was runner-up for the Joan Shorenstein Barone
Award for Outstanding Journalism. Crowley also won the Columbia University's Armstrong
Award for Freedom is My Woman, a documentary on a prison cellblock takeover.
The deadline to
enter the Student Publishing Contest was March 20, 2009. For more information,
visit www.AEPweb.org/awards/student. About
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