David Brinkley Teaching Excellence Award

The award

The David Brinkley Teaching Excellence Award is awarded to a faculty member in the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media for excellence in classroom teaching for any level of student, both graduate and undergraduate. Commitment to helping individual students both in and out of the classroom will also be considered. This award currently comes with a generous $2,500 prize.

About David Brinkley

The prize is named for David Brinkley, a Wilmington, N.C., native, who began his journalism career as a high school student writing for The Wilmington Star. He attended Vanderbilt University before service in the Army interrupted his studies. In 1943, Brinkley got his first full-time broadcasting job: White House correspondent for NBC News. From that auspicious beginning, he spent almost 40 years with NBC radio and television. Brinkley reported on every president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Bill Clinton. He had covered every presidential election and nominating convention since 1952 and had reported many of the major national news events. For most of the 1960s, he was co-anchor of “The Huntley-Brinkley Report,” a popular network evening newscast. After Huntley retired, Brinkley remained at NBC as co-anchor with John Chancellor on the “NBC Nightly News” and later as a commentator for the program. He moved to ABC in 1981 as host of the Sunday morning interview program, “This Week with David Brinkley.” He retired as host of the show in 1996. Brinkley won every major broadcasting award, including 10 Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards and the Radio and Television News Directors Association’s “Paul White Award” for distinguished service to broadcast journalism. He was inducted into the NC Media & Journalism Hall of Fame in 1989. Brinkley passed away in 2003.

Nomination

Nomination information, process and forms are available to UNC Hussman faculty and staff on the school intranet.

Past recipients

2023 Amanda Reid
2022 Laura Ruel
2021 Allison Lazard & Kate Sheppard
2020 Paul Cuadros
2019 Tori Ekstrand
2018 Joe Cabosky
2017 Trevy McDonald
2016 Terence Oliver
2015 Chad Stevens
2014 Dana McMahan and Barbara Friedman
2013 Heidi Hennink-Kaminski
2012 Queenie Byars
2011 Dan Riffe
2010 Cathy Packer
2009 Napoleon Byars
2008 Janas Sinclair
2007 Lois Boynton
2006 Richard Simpson
2005 Charles Tuggle
2004 John Sweeney
2003 Patricia Curtin
2002 Thomas A. Bowers
2001 Donald L. Shaw
2000 Debashis Aikat
1999 Cathy L. Packer
1998 Margaret A. Blanchard
1997 Ruth Walden
1996 Raleigh Mann
1995 Jan J. Elliott
1994 Richard J. Beckman
1993 Dulcie Murdock Straughan
1992 Jane Delano Brown

 

Questions?

For more information, please contact Senior Director of the Undergraduate Program Stacy Edwards Outlaw.