Vanocur Wins Prestigious Van Anda Award
ATHENS, Ohio (May 26, 2000) -- Veteran journalist Sander Vanocur was presented with the
Carr Van Anda Award, the highest award given by the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio
University, during Journalism Day ceremonies. Vanocur has reported on national and international
issues in both the United States and abroad throughout his 45-year career.
Vanocur has won numerous awards, including an Emmy nomination for his coverage of the
Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968. Vanocur began his news career as a journalist with
the Manchester Guardian in London, later worked for the BBC in London and was CBS's London
correspondent. He joined the New York Times' city staff in the mid-1950s before joining NBC
for 14 years as its Washington Correspondent, White House correspondent, contributor to the
"Huntley-Brinkley Report" and weekend news anchor.
Vanocur was a senior correspondent for PBS through much of the 1970s. His next venture was
with ABC, where he directed the special reporting units, served as senior correspondent in Buenos
Aires and anchored "Business World." He currently hosts "Movies in Time" on the History Channel.
The Carr Van Anda Award honors a lifelong record of accomplishment. Previous recipients include
Walter Cronkite, James Reston, Harry Reasoner, Eric Sevareid, Seymour Hersh, Mike Wallace, James
Kilpatrick and William Raspberry. Van Anda is credited by many historians for making the "New York
Times" perhaps the nation's most respected newspaper when he was managing editor. To honor his
memory, the faculty of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism established the Carr Van Anda Award
in 1968. Vanocur is the 61st recipient of the award.
"Sander Vanocur truly is a Renaissance journalist," said Dan Riffe, interim director of the
Scripps School of Journalism. "He has worked for The Manchester Guardian, the BBC, CBS, the New
York Times, NBC, PBS, the Washington Post, ABC and the History Channel. He's literally done it
all and done it all exceptionally well."
