On Tuesday, The Plaza Hotel in New York played host to the fifth annual Mirror Awards, a well-catered lunch ceremony—white wine and salmon salad—put on by Syracuse University’s Newhouse School and honoring the reporters and editors who “hold a mirror to their own industry for the public’s benefit.”
Gathered around the thirty-some tables were a cast of characters both corporate—Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes introduced Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts (away in Lausanne closing NBC’s Olympic bid) as recipient of the Fred Dressler Achievement Award—and editorial, with a sprinkling of tech in the form of Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley, a Newhouse alum who received an award for “impact, innovation and influence.”
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