tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732184792215909505.post-9051771136984819762008-07-16T14:52:00.004-04:002008-08-05T18:27:18.354-04:00<span style="font-family:georgia;"><strong>Geoff Dankert</strong> has been named assistant news director for WFLD FOX Chicago. Most recently, Dankert was the managing editor for FOX News Chicago, where he helped launch the station's late-evening newscast, "The Ten." He joined WFLD-TV in 1999 from WXYZ-TV in Detroit, where he was an executive producer. Dankert, the recipient of a Chicago/Midwest Emmy and a regional Edward R. Murrow Award, began his broadcasting career more than 20 years ago as a radio reporter and anchor in his home state of Michigan.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nlgja.org/email/cw/jul08/alwood.gif"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 100px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.nlgja.org/email/cw/jul08/alwood.gif" border="0" /></a>"Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press" by <strong>Edward Alwood</strong> has been named Best Book of the Year 2008 by the Connecticut Press Club. Alwood, a former CNN correspondent, is a professor of journalism at Quinnipiac University. He is a founding member of NLGJA and authored "Straight News: Gays, Lesbians and the News Media."</span><br /><div></div>NLGJAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13614010103047693534noreply@blogger.com