Cory Booker to speak at virtual Newhouse-hosted Toner Prize ceremony
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The Toner Prize was established by Robin Toner’s friends, family and classmates after she died in 2008.
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U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) will be the keynote speaker in a virtual ceremony sponsored by Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications on March 26 at 7 p.m., the school announced Monday.
The prerecorded ceremony will honor the recipients of the Toner Prizes for Excellence in Political Reporting, which the Newhouse School sponsors to honor the work of Robin Toner, an SU graduate and the first female national correspondent for The New York Times. Melanie Hicken, a 2009 SU graduate and senior writer at CNN Investigates will serve as master of ceremonies.
yeah. if she s going to try to do this, this was probably the best venue to do this. robin toner, this was an event from the late new york times political correspondent, she covered clinton and covered health care. they had a relationship. this was an event to honor our colleague dan baltz. he won the award. she came. she stayed the whole night apparently. again, it was designed to sort of say to the washington press core, i m trying to restart with all of you. will it work? you know, that remains to be seen, i think. i covered secretary clinton last week in atlantic city. i sat a few feet away from her at the robin toner dinner. look, this is a politician who is on. she does not have a primary challenger of any significance. she is poised in her confrontation with the press. there is a confidence there and an ability to almost already start playing to the general election that i don t see on the republican side. i don t think she cares if the press thinks this or that. she is mo
don t think it changes elizabeth warren s mind. the opening has been there, she could have run and still could run at hillary clinton s left. i don t think in her heart of hearts she wants to do it but intriguing the boston globe picking up the mantle. and susan page hillary clinton is in washington today at the campaign for american progress, tonight she s going to be speaking actually at a journalism found razor in honor of our friend and late colleague robin toner of the new york times. then what, timing? in terms of her announcement? i think it s coming next month. i think the e-mail furor has reinforced a point that her supporters have made that she needs a infrastructure in place to respond. these stories are not going away as with the latest round of benghazi e-mails. suggesting some of her senate colleagues were using their private e-mails rather than having government e-mails so it