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Nominations Open for 3rd Annual Fourth Estate Award

Posted by: Barry Kolar on Apr 30, 2020
News Type: TBA in the News

The Tennessee Bar Association has opened the nomination period for the third annual Fourth Estate Award: Honoring Courageous Reporting on Justice and the Law.

The TBA strongly supports our freedom of expression under the First Amendment, as exercised by lawyers on behalf of their clients and by journalists on behalf of the public, and it particularly wants to recognize and encourage journalists who promote public understanding of the rule of law and improvements in our system of justice through their vigorous exercise of their First Amendment rights.

Prior winners were the WSMV Channel 4 I-Team in Nashville for its reporting on Judge Casey Moreland and Steven Hale of the Nashville Scene for his coverage of the executions of Billy Ray Irick, David Earl Miller and Edmund Zagorski, and capital punishment more generally in Tennessee.

Nominees must be Tennessee-based journalists who have shown exemplary courage in exercising First Amendment rights in the promotion of public understanding of how the law and our legal system works and how it should work as demonstrated by a story or series of related stories published in 2019.

Nominees may be individuals or teams of journalists who worked on the published stories. Journalists may also self-nominate.

The nominees may have published their story or stories online, in a newspaper or magazine, in a book, on a podcast, or on television or radio.

The presentation of this award will be made in June at the annual meeting of the Tennessee Bar Association.

The deadline for entry is May 29.

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