{"product_id":"estatefreshaustincom-3094","title":"1972 Press Club of Dallas \"Katie Award\" Best Spot Newspaper Coverage Sam Kinch J","description":"1972 Press Club of Dallas \"Katie Award\" Best Spot Newspaper Coverage Sam Kinch\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Jr Dallas Morning News Modernist Sculpture 15\" tall and very heavy, solid bronze\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;on a wood base.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Sam Kinch Jr., was the founding editor of Texas Weekly and a former political\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;and government correspondent for The Dallas Morning News.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Kinch started Texas Weekly in 1984 with two friends, George Phenix and John\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Rogers. He sold his share in 1998 (the political newsletter is now part of The\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Texas Tribune) and retired to write, travel and enjoy his family.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;He was a terrific reporter and mentor to other journalists, irreverent, smart as\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;hell, a great lover of dirty jokes, full of history, an incurable reader, a\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Presbyterian elder and a surprisingly soft touch for people who needed some\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;help.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;He wrote books, including Texas Under a Cloud, with Ben Proctor, about the\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Sharpstown stock scandal that rocked the Capitol and resulted in the biggest\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;turnover in legislators in modern history, and Too Much is Not Enough, with Anne\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Marie Kilday, a book on campaign finance in Texas.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Kinch was a University of Texas grad, with bachelor's and master's degrees in\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;journalism, a former editor of The Daily Texan.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;The Press Club of Dallas originated in the late 1940s, when\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;employees of the Dallas Morning News and the Dallas TimesHerald gathered to\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;socialize after work. The organization was\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;formally founded in 1948 and chartered by the State of Texas in\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;1951. Its members were some of the first responders on the scene\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;when President Kennedy was assassinated, and the new reporting\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;standards established nationwide afterward bolstered the club’s\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;appeal to professionals. The Press Club of Dallas moved locations\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;frequently over the years, residing most recently at the Women’s\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Museum in Fair Park. The organization currently maintains a board\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;of directors but has no physical location.1\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;The organization’s most notable activities are its annual\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Gridiron show, Katie Awards, and roasts. The Gridiron show\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;began in 1951 and was modelled on the national one staged in\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Washington, D.C. Originally consisting of “biting satire,” the\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;performance shifted towards a Broadway-esque style during the\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;late 1970s, but continued to lampoon events in Dallas. The\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Griddle, a satirical newspaper, was produced and sold at the shows\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;to generate additional revenue. The Katie Awards ceremony began\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;in 1958. It honored “excellence in journalism” and attracted large\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;numbers of members of the press due to the prestige associated\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;with winning one. The Press Club of Dallas also annually roasted\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;prominent local citizens. These events serve as fundraisers for\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;journalism scholarships offered by the organization.2","brand":"sale - www.estatefreshaustin.com Estate Fresh Austin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46752628768984,"sku":"12808682337_8112","price":400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/6284\/7960\/files\/1972-press-club-of-dallas-katie-award-best-spot-newspaper-coverage-sam-kinch-jestate-fresh-austin-218475.png?v=1757832078","url":"https:\/\/estatefreshaustin.com\/products\/estatefreshaustincom-3094","provider":"Estate Fresh Austin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}