Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2019): Matt Davies -- Presentation:
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Description of Pictures: The Herb Block Foundation cordially invites you to The Herblock Prize Award Ceremony & Lecture.
Prize Winner: Matt Davies
Lecturer: Jake Tapper
Finalist: Clay Jones, Self Syndicated
Matt Davies
Newsday
Matt Davies is the editorial cartoonist for Newsday in NY and has won both the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism prize. In 2004 he was awarded the first ever Herblock Prize.
In 2017 he received the National Headliner Award and was also a runner up/finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 and 2016.
Speakers in sequence:
* Helena Zinkham, Director for Collections & Services and Chief of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress
* Marcela Brane, President/CEO of the Herblock Foundation
* Matt Davies
* Matt Wuerker
* Jake Tapper
* Dana Priest (Q&A)
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DAVIE1_190502_011.JPG: Matt Davies and Jake Tapper
DAVIE1_190502_014.JPG: Helena Zinkham, Director for Collections & Services and Chief of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress
DAVIE1_190502_147.JPG: Marcela Brane, President/CEO of the Herblock Foundation
DAVIE1_190502_215.JPG: Dana Priest
DAVIE1_190502_263.JPG: Matt Davies
DAVIE1_190502_287.JPG: Matt Davies
DAVIE1_190502_341.JPG: Congratulations to Newsday's political cartoonist Matt Davies, the 2019 recipient of the Herblock Prize. The ceremony keynote speaker was Jake Tapper. This year's finalist was Clay Jones.
DAVIE2_190502_055.JPG: Jake Tapper
DAVIE2_190502_230.JPG: Matt Wuerker
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Wikipedia Description: Herblock Prize
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The Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning is an annual $15,000 after-tax cash prize, and a sterling silver Tiffany trophy. Designed "to encourage editorial cartooning as an essential tool for preserving the rights of the American people through freedom of speech and the right of expression," it is named for the editorial cartoonist Herblock and sponsored by the The Herb Block Foundation.
The rotating three-judge panel that determines the award-winner is typically composed of the previous year's winner, another editorial cartoonist, and a scholar of editorial cartooning. The award is typically presented some time between March and May of each year, at the Library of Congress.
Each award presentation is accompanied by a guest lecturer who discusses contemporary social issues "in the spirit of Herblock." Previous Herblock Prize guest lecturers include Ben Bradlee, President Barack Obama, Sandra Day O’Connor, Tom Brokaw, Tim Russert, Ted Koppel, George Stevens, Jr., Jim Lehrer, Garry Trudeau, Gwen Ifill, and Bob Woodward.
Finalists for the award have been named since 2011; they receive a $5,000 after-tax prize.
History
When Herb Block died in October 2001, he left $50 million with instructions to create a foundation to support charitable and educational programs that help promote and sustain the causes he championed during his 72 years of cartooning. The Herb Block Foundation is committed to defending the basic freedoms guaranteed all Americans, combating all forms of discrimination and prejudice, and improving the conditions of the poor and underprivileged through the creation or support of charitable and educational programs with the same goals. The Foundation is also committed to improving educational opportunities to deserving students through post-secondary education scholarships and to promoting editorial cartooning through continuing research. The Herb Block Foundation awarded its first gra ...More...
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2018_DC_SuttonR_180509: Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2018) -- Ward Sutton -- Reception (120 photos from 2018)
2018_DC_SuttonP_180509: Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2018) -- Ward Sutton -- Presentation (102 photos from 2018)
2017_DC_BollingR_170329: Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2017): Ruben Bolling -- Reception (107 photos from 2017)
2017_DC_BollingP_170329: Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2017): Ruben Bolling -- Presentation (72 photos from 2017)
2016_DC_FioreR_160524: Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2016): Mark Fiore -- Reception (and anything non-program) (94 photos from 2016)
2016_DC_FioreP_160524: Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2016): Mark Fiore -- Presentation (73 photos from 2016)
2015_DC_Kal_R_150507: Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2015): Kevin Kallaugher -- Reception (142 photos from 2015)
2015_DC_Kal_P_150507: Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2015): Kevin Kallaugher -- Presentation (62 photos from 2015)
2015_DC_Kal_Exhibit_150507: Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2015): Kevin Kallaugher -- Exhibit (15 photos from 2015)
2014_DC_LOC_SorensenR_140429: Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2014): Jen Sorensen -- Reception (150 photos from 2014)
2014_DC_LOC_SorensenP_140429: Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2014): Jen Sorensen -- Presentation (110 photos from 2014)
2008_DC_NAROCP_080207 Natl Archives -- Panel -- Running for Office: Cartooning and Politics (w/Pat Oliphant, Ann Telnaes, Matt Davies, and Clay Bennett)
2008_DC_Drinks_080207 DC -- Drinks after the "Running for Office: Cartooning and Politics" event
Priest, Dana appears on:
2019_DC_DaviesR_190502 Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2019): Matt Davies -- Reception
2019_DC_Hostage_190124 Newseum -- Journalists Held Hostage (w/Joel Simon, David Rohde, and Judy Woodruff)
2018_DC_WP_WPFI2_180425 Washington Post -- World Press Freedom Index 2018 -- Panel 2: Perspectives w/J. Jesus Esquivel, Jason Rezaian, Alisa Sopova, Margaret Talev, and Dana Priest
2016_DC_Press_FreedomIM_160427 Newseum -- Inside Media w/Dana Priest, Richard Tofel, Ana Therese Day, Vanessa Tucker, and Will Fitzgibbon (State of World Press Freedom)
2015_DC_With_Cash_151215 Newseum & Hudson Institute & Freedom House -- "From Russia With Cash" (w/panel)
2015_DC_News_Lose_150204 Newseum -- News We Could Lose: New Threats to Journalism and Press Freedom (w/panel)
2012_DC_Woodward_121112 Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- Bob Woodward ("Price of Politics") w/Dana Priest
2012_DC_FOI_120316 Newseum -- National Freedom of Information Day 2012 (w/panels)
2011_DC_FarewellP_110118 Newseum & Eisenhower Institute -- Eisenhower's Farewell Address -- Presentation (w/James Fallows, Dana Priest, Evan Thomas, and David Gergen)
2019 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
a four-day jaunt to Massachusetts (Boston, Stockbridge, and Springfield) to experience rain in another state,
Asheville, NC to visit Dad and his wife Dixie,
four trips to New York City (including the United Nations, Flushing, and the New York Comic-Con), and
my 14th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Utah).
Number of photos taken this year: about 582,000.