Tickets on sale for 2020 Virtual Fourth Estate Award Gala honoring CBS News President Susan Zirinsky on Nov. 18
Tickets are now available for the 2020 Virtual Fourth Estate Award Gala honoring CBS News president Susan Zirinsky.
The gala is expected to be held from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 18. Zirinsky is slated to accept the evening’s highest honor, the Fourth Estate Award, recognizing her significant contributions to the field of journalism.
National Press Club members can purchase tickets at the discounted rate of $25 per household. Other tickets, including those for nonmembers, are $50 per household. Tickets may be purchased online.
Zirinsky became president and senior executive producer of CBS News on March 1, 2019, and within nine months oversaw an overhaul of the news division. An acclaimed journalist and highly respected senior executive producer at CBS News, Zirinsky began her career in the CBS News Washington bureau two weeks after the Watergate break-in. Over the next four decades she produced a wide variety of award-winning documentaries and programs, and she covered a range of historic stories, from the Gulf War to the student uprising in Tiananmen Square, from the White House for 10 years to the 9/11 attacks, and from the Paris terrorist attacks to the mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school.
The Club also plans to honor at the gala:
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Maria Ressa, a fearless journalist convicted in the Philippines on trumped-up charges of cyber libel, with the 2020 international John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award;
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Linda Tirado, an author and freelance photographer who was badly injured while covering the Minneapolis protests after George Floyd’s death, with the 2020 domestic John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award; and
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Ed Yong, the staff writer at The Atlantic who has been shaping our collective understanding of the coronavirus and its impact, with the 2020 Neil and Susan Sheehan award for investigative journalism.
The 2020 Virtual Fourth Estate Award Gala will be the first of its kind, historic in the evening’s long tradition of honoring journalists who have made significant contributions to the field. This year’s virtual gala will present the elegant face-to-face experience you expect but from the comfort and safety of your own home. As such, dress code is black tie optional.
The gala, attended by hundreds of members, guests, and media luminaries, raises the majority of the operating expenses for the Club’s nonprofit affiliate, the National Press Club Journalism Institute. Tickets are tax-deductible, and you can make an additional gift here. Guests should be able to network with all guests and are to be seated at a virtual table during the program. Guests will be contacted after they purchase tickets to make their table requests.
To explore sponsorship opportunities for the Fourth Estate event or for other questions, email Julie Moos, Executive Director of the National Press Club Journalism Institute at [email protected].