Headlines & Headliners: The 11th Annual New York Benefit NLGJA
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More than 400 NLGJA members and supporters attended the 11th Annual New York benefit, Headlines & Headliners, at the West Side Loft on Thursday, March 16. The crowd gathered to network and mingle with some of the news and entertainment industry’s top talent. The benefit, hosted by NBC Universal, was the most successful in its 11 years running, raising more than $150,000 for NLGJA’s programs.
The highlight of the evening was NLGJA awarding its first scholarship, which was announced by CNN Headline News Anchor and NLGJA member Thomas Roberts. The Leroy F. Aarons Scholarship Award was presented to Dennis Mitchell, a junior at Arizona State University. Mitchell is a second-year student at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communications. Named a “Student Journalist of the Year” by the Arizona Interscholastic Press Association and the Arizona Newspaper Foundation and a recipient of the Al Neuharth Freedom Forum Free Spirit Scholarship, Mitchell exemplifies the vision, dedication and passion the Leroy F. Aarons Scholarship Award was designed to celebrate.
Campbell Brown, co-anchor of the NBC News program “Today Weekend Edition,” was honorary host. Brown and NBC News President Steve Capus underscored the importance of NLGJA’s work in the industry to ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues are covered fairly and accurately, particularly during this time when LGBT issues are so in the forefront of news events.
Jack Krumholtz, Associate GeneralCounsel/Managing Director, US Legal Government Affairs, Microsoft in acknowledging the importance of NLGJA both inside and outside of the news media, said, “NLGJA’s work enriches all of us. Your work is critical to affecting change.”
Special guests included Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News”; Soledad O’Brien, co-anchor of CNN’s “American Morning”; Greta Van Susteren, host of Fox News Channel’s “On the Record”; John Huey, editor-in-chief of Time; Al Franken of Air America Radio’s “The Al Franken Show”; Jay Ireland, president of NBC Universal Television Stations; Ted Allen of Bravo’s “Queer Eye”; Carl Quintanilla of CNBC’s “Squawk Box”; Natalie Morales, anchor and correspondent for MSNBC; Jeanne Moos, national news correspondent for CNN; Alison Stewart, MSNBC anchor; Kara Janx and Daniel Vosovic from Bravo’s “Project Runway”; and Jason Bellini, anchor of CBS News on LOGO.
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Event Co-Chairs
Karen Bailis
Javier Morgado
Dinner Host Committee
Karen Bailis
Thomas Carpenter
Wesley Combs
Alan Flippen
& Joey Juan
Mykel MacCarthy
Dan Mathews
& Michael McGraw
Steven Petrow
Andrew Tobias
& Charles Nolan
Robert Witeck
Steering Committee
Chris Ariens
Jeff Guaracino
Oriol Gutierrez
Michael Lavers
Mykel MacCarthy
Court Passant
Steve Rosen
Ross Scheepers
Reception Host Committee
Chris Ariens
Nicholas Chesla
Joe Cutbirth
Tom Dolby
Jessica DuLong
LZ Granderson
Russell Grant
Jeff Guaracino
Oriol Gutierrez
Katia Hetter
& Kim Severson
Frank King
Albert Lewitinn
Dr. Jud Newborn
Court Passant
& Joseph Vasquez
Erik Piepenburg
Matt Roush
Jane Sasseen
Lynn Schulman
Bruce Shenitz
Keith Sherman
Louise Sloan
