History
Founded by Roy Aarons in 1990, it currently has roughly 700 members in the United States and abroad.
Michael Triplett of BNA Bloomberg is the association's national President. The rest of the Executive Committee are Sarah Blazucki, Vice President for Print and Digital; Jen Christenson, Vice President for Broadcast; Trey Graham, Treasurer; and Ken Miguel, Secretary.
Past national Presidents of NLGJA are Roy Aarons (founder), Karen-Louise Boothe, Robert Dodge, Steven Petrow, Eric Hegedus and David Steinberg.
In 2006, CNN donated US$100,000 to the NLGJA.
Each year, NLGJA hosts the Headlines & Headliners Benefit in New York City as a fundraiser to support its programs throughout the year. The 2012 event was hosted by Jane Velez-Mitchell of HLN and Don Lemon of CNN.
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“This above all makes history useful and desirable: it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)
“In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)