Katz Award
The Center gives an annual award called the Katz award to journalists covering immigration issues. The organization's stated purpose for the award is, "to promote informed and fair reporting on this contentious and complicated issue." The award is named in memory of Eugene Katz, a native New Yorker who started his career as a reporter for the Daily Oklahoman. In 1928, he joined the family business, working as an advertising salesman for the Katz Agency, and in 1952 became president of Katz Communications, a half-billion-dollar firm which not only dealt in radio and television advertising but also owned and managed a number of radio stations. Katz was a member of the Center for Immigration Studies board until shortly after his 90th birthday in 1997. He died in 2000.
Katz award recipients have included the following:
- 2011: Leo W. Banks, Journalist Tucson Weekly
- 2010: Arnold Shapiro, Executive Producer of Homeland Security USA
- 2009: Jaxon Van Derbeken, the San Francisco Chronicle
- 2008: Heather Mac Donald, the City Journal
- 2007: Stephen Dinan, the Washington Times
- 2006: Sara Carter, the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
- 2005: Jerry Seper, the Washington Times
- 2004: Lou Dobbs, Lou Dobbs Tonight
- 2003: Joel Mowbray, National Review
- 2002: August Gribbin, the Washington Times
- 2000: William Branigin, the Washington Post
- 1999: Jayne Noble Suhler and Ed Timms, the Dallas Morning News
- 1998: Marcus Stern, Copley News Service
- 1997: Jonathan Tilove, Newhouse News Service
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