Margaret Larson, Veteran Broadcast Journalist, to Receive Headliner Award
Margaret Larson is the recipient of the 2004 Headliner Award given annually by The Association for Women in Communications. The award will be presented at the Annual Professional Conference, held this year in Charlotte, North Carolina, October 6-9, 2004.
The Headliner Award is presented to an AWC member who has recent national or international accomplishments, as well as consistent communications excellence. Since AWC created the award in 1939, the association has recognized some 200 prominent leaders in communications disciplines.
During her 25-year broadcast career, most notably with NBC News, Larson served as a correspondent based in Burbank, a foreign correspondent based in London, news anchor for the Today Show and correspondent for Dateline NBC. As an overseas correspondent, she covered such stories as the Persian Gulf War, the Kurdish refugee crisis in northern Iraq, Typhoon Thelma in the Philippines, the release of the final four American hostages from the Middle East, British and Eastern European elections, and many other international developments.
At the end of 2002, Larson departed NBC affiliate KING-TV, as co-anchor of the top-rated 11 o’clock news, to accept a position with international aid agency Mercy Corps. She had spent ten years as a volunteer and board member for Mercy Corps before accepting her current post as Vice President of Communications. While still working periodically with Dateline NBC, Larson devotes her full-time attentions to the humanitarian work undertaken by Mercy Corps in more than thirty countries around the world.
Larson has garnered several broadcast journalism awards including three Emmys, two national Clarion awards, NY Film Festival awards and a national SPJ award. She serves on the board of Mothers Against Violence in America and is a trustee of the Children’s Home Society, serving families at risk. Larson was also named the 2003 Communicator of the Year by the Seattle Chapter of the Association for Women in Communications, and the 2003 Woman of Distinction by the YWCA Olympia Chapter.
The Association for Women in Communications, founded in 1909 as Theta Sigma Phi, is a non-profit organization that champions the advancement of women across all communications disciplines by recognizing excellence, promoting leadership and positioning its members at the forefront of the evolving communications era. The association has members in more than 100 professional and student chapters around the world and a strong network of independent members.
For more information about the association, visit the AWC website at www.womcom.org or call the Severna Park, Maryland national office at 410/544-7442. Contact Executive Director Pat Troy at pat@womcom.org or Membership Director Nancy Badertscher at nancy@womcom.org.
