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Randall Pinkston<\/p><\/div>\n

OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 Randall Pinkston, winner of three national Emmys and one Edward R. Murrow Award<\/a> as a network correspondent, has been chosen for the 2013 Samuel Talbert Silver Em Award from the University of Mississippi.<\/p>\n

A native of Yazoo County, Pinkston retired in May after 33 years with CBS and in September joined the new Al Jazeera America<\/a> team as a freelance journalist and national correspondent. In a video prepared for his retirement, anchor Scott Pelley noted Pinkston reported more than 7,700 stories from venues ranging from the Tora Bora caves in Afghanistan to the schoolhouse in Newtown, Conn.<\/p>\n

The award will be presented at a\u00a0noon\u00a0luncheon on\u00a0Thursday (Oct. 17) in the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics<\/a> at Ole Miss. Ticket information is available from the Meek School of Journalism and New Media at 662-915-7146.<\/p>\n

The Silver Em dates to 1958 and is the highest award in journalism presented by the university. The criteria limit recipients to Mississippians with notable journalism careers, journalists with notable careers in Mississippi or both, which is the case with Pinkston.<\/p>\n

He is a graduate of Millsaps College in Jackson whose first television work was three years in the state capital. That was followed by two years in Jacksonville, Fla., and then by four years in Hartford, Conn., where he worked as a reporter, anchor and producer for public affairs programs and specials while also earning his law degree from the University of Connecticut.<\/p>\n

In 1980, Pinkston joined WCBS-TV in New York, where he covered New Jersey for 10 years. Pinkston then joined CBS News as White House correspondent covering the administration of President George H.W. Bush and traveling with the president. At the end of the Bush presidency, Pinkston was reassigned to New York and covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. intervention in Haiti, the Unabomber story, the standoff with the Montana Freemen and the trial of Susan Smith, accused of killing her children. Pinkston covered the early developments in the death of Trayvon Martin in Florida and, notably, interviewed Myrlie Evers Williams, a fellow Mississippian and widow of Medgar Wiley Evers, who was assassinated when Pinkston was 12, as one of his last CBS assignments.<\/p>\n

“Whether he was on the front lines of the civil rights movement or in the press room at the White House, Randall Pinkston reported with clarity and courage,” said Sharon Alfonsi, an Ole Miss graduate with “60 Minutes Sports.” “He is an intrepid reporter, a gifted storyteller and always a true gentleman. I was honored to call him my colleague and proud to call him my friend.”<\/p>\n

The Meek School of Journalism and New Media was founded in 2009, following an endowment gift by Ed and Becky Meek. It offers bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in both journalism and integrated marketing communications on the Oxford campus and in coordination with regional campuses. Due to the increasing diversity of media careers, enrollment continues to rise, with almost 1,000 undergraduate journalism or IMC majors in the school.<\/p>\n

PREVIOUS SILVER EM HONOREES<\/p>\n

1958 \u2013 George W. Healy Jr.<\/p>\n

1959 \u2013 Turner Catledge<\/p>\n

1960 \u2013 Kenneth Toler<\/p>\n

1961 \u2013 John Oliver Emmerich<\/p>\n

1964 \u2013 William B. Street<\/p>\n

1965 \u2013 Purser Hewitt<\/p>\n

1966 \u2013 Hal C. DeCell<\/p>\n

1967 \u2013 Paul Pittman<\/p>\n

1968 \u2013 Hodding Carter Jr.<\/p>\n

1969 \u2013 Willie Morris<\/p>\n

1970 \u2013 T.M. Hederman Jr.<\/p>\n

1971 \u2013 Joseph R. Ellis<\/p>\n

1972 \u2013 Wilson F. Minor<\/p>\n

1973 \u2013 Mark F. Ethridge<\/p>\n

1975 \u2013 H.L. Stevenson<\/p>\n

1976 \u2013 William Raspberry<\/p>\n

1977 \u2013 Joe L. Albritton<\/p>\n

1978 \u2013 James A. Autry<\/p>\n

1979 \u2013 James Nelson<\/p>\n

1980 \u2013 Mary-Lynn Kotz<\/p>\n

1981 \u2013 Curtis Wilkie<\/p>\n

1982 \u2013 Harold Burson<\/p>\n

1983 \u2013 John O. Emmerich<\/p>\n

1984 \u2013 Hazel Brannon Smith<\/p>\n

1985 \u2013 Charles Overby<\/p>\n

1986 \u2013 W.C. “Dub” Shoemaker<\/p>\n

1987 \u2013 Charles Dunagin (2)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Larry Speakes (2)<\/p>\n

1988 \u2013 Edward Fritts<\/p>\n

1989 \u2013 Rudy Abramson<\/p>\n

1990 \u2013 Hodding Carter III<\/p>\n

1991 \u2013 James L. McDowell<\/p>\n

1992 \u2013 Rheta Grimsley Johnson<\/p>\n

1993 \u2013 Dan Goodgame<\/p>\n

1994 \u2013 Robert Gordon<\/p>\n

1995 \u2013 Jere Hoar<\/p>\n

1996 \u2013 Gregory Favre<\/p>\n

1997 \u2013 Stephanie Saul<\/p>\n

1998 \u2013 Lerone Bennett<\/p>\n

2000 \u2013 Jerry Mitchell<\/p>\n

2001 \u2013 Bert Case<\/p>\n

2002 \u2013 Ira Harkey<\/p>\n

2003 \u2013 Jim Abbott<\/p>\n

2005 \u2013 Otis Sanford<\/p>\n

2006 \u2013 Dan Phillips<\/p>\n

2007 \u2013 Stanley Dearman<\/p>\n

2008 \u2013 Ronnie Agnew<\/p>\n

2009 \u2013 Stan Tiner<\/p>\n

2010 \u2013 Terry Wooten<\/p>\n

2011 \u2013 Patsy Brumfield<\/p>\n

2012 \u2013 Greg Brock<\/p>\n

2013 \u2013 W. Randall Pinkston<\/p>\n

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