{"id":27572,"date":"2014-10-27T00:11:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T04:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=27572"},"modified":"2014-10-27T00:43:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T04:43:28","slug":"what-wendy-wore-mrb-gets-an-award-in-tucson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/what-wendy-wore-mrb-gets-an-award-in-tucson\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: MrB Gets an Award in Tucson"},"content":{"rendered":"

MrB and I recently visited Tucson, where he received the John Peter and Anna Catherine Zenger Award<\/a> from the University of Arizona School of Journalism.<\/p>\n

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MrB with his award. Photo by Natalie Grum, via Facebook. Click for source.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Zenger award honors journalists who “fight for freedom of the press and the people\u2019s right to know.”\u00a0 The school’s website<\/a> elaborates:<\/p>\n

“[The award] is named for a husband and wife team of pioneering journalists. John Peter Zenger was editor of the New York Weekly Journal in 1734 when he was jailed by British colonial authorities on charges of seditious libel. He had criticized the corrupt administration of New York\u2019s governor, William Cosby. While Zenger was imprisoned, his wife, Anna Catherine Zenger, continued to publish the newspaper.<\/em><\/p>\n

Zenger\u2019s subsequent trial and acquittal is considered a landmark case in the history of freedom of the press, helping to lay the foundation for the First Amendment. Past Zenger Award winners include Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Walter Cronkite and Bill Moyers.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

MrB and I like the fact that the award recognizes Mrs. Zanger as well as Mr. Zenger. Saying that she “continued to publish the newspaper” doesn’t quite capture how hard Anna Catherine worked<\/a>. While John Peter was in prison for over eight months, facing a possible death sentence, Anna Catherine put out the Journal every Monday — missing just one issue. She brought the articles to her husband in jail where he edited them and,\u00a0at the same time, she raised their five children! It makes me think of the line, “Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels.”<\/p>\n

I recorded MrB<\/a>‘s acceptance speech. I must brag that he barely looked at his notes except to read a quote from Zenger’s lawyer<\/a>, Andrew Hamilton<\/a>.<\/p>\n