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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Famous quotes containing the word history:
“We may pretend that we’re basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.”
—Terry Hands (b. 1941)
“... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)