Klein to Present Horizon Award to Murdoch

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Joel Klein,
former head of the Justice Department's antiturst division and Clinton
White House staffer, will present the Horizon award to NewsCorp.
Chairman Rupert Murdoch at the Media Institute's annual awards banquet
Oct. 6 in Washington.

Klein is currently chancellor of the New York City Department of Education.

Also lined up to hand out the an award is former National
Cable & Telecommunications Association President Decker Antstrom,
who will present the Institute's Freedom of Speech award to current NCTA
chief Kyle McSlarrow.

Former FCC Chair and current Wiley Rein partner Dick
Wiley will introduce the keynote speaker, FCc Commissioner Meredith
Attwell Baker.


The Media Institute is a Washington-based First Amendment think tank.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.