March 26, 2018

Good evening, everyone.

I’m Bill Nielsen and it is my great privilege to chair the advisory board of the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication.

Together with Marie Hardin, dean of the College of Communications at Penn State, whom you will meet in a moment, we are delighted to welcome you. We believe this will be an important and meaningful event as we recognize and honor three individuals: Bill George, Gwen Ifill and John… More

March 26, 2018

When I heard about this at first, I didn’t and still don’t feel worthy. But I am deeply honored to be here because I know the importance of the work you all do. I’d also like to recognize my wife Penny who has come in from Minneapolis and is sitting at a table with a group of Medtronic people and friends from Exxon. So thank you all very much for coming.

We live in an odd era where… More

March 23, 2018

The Museum of Public Relations is hosting an historic and timely event at 6 p.m. on April 11 at the Helen Mills Event Space & Theater in New York City

The museum has assembled eight of the field's most important thought leaders, including two Page Center board members, to explore one of the most significant issues facing the industry today: “Values-based decision making in a provocative environment: the consequences of ‘doing the right thing.’”

Moderated… More

March 16, 2018 • Jonathan McVerry

National newspapers in Bulgaria and Turkey frame the Syrian refugee crisis differently, according to Page Center-funded research recently published in American Behavioral Scientist. The study found Turkish papers were more likely to depict refugees as victims while Bulgarian newspapers offered a more distanced portrayal often through an administrative lens.

Page Center scholars Daniela Dimitrova, Iowa State University, Emel Ozdora-Aksak, Bilkent University, and Colleen Connolly-Ahern, Penn State University, examined nearly 150 crisis-focused articles to see how both country’s… More

March 5, 2018

I’m thrilled to remember my good friend and role model this evening. Her achievements were impressive but I won’t list them tonight – I commend to you the Arthur Page Award citation, which offers a thorough justification for this honor.

Instead, I’d like to convey my own experience of Gwen.

We met when I joined WABJ – the Washington Association of Black Journalists. Unexpected because I was never a journalist. Yet, I was fortunate to find life-long… More

March 2, 2018

My wife will tell you that I’m not an emotional person. In fact, when the two of us are alone at home, she sometimes calls me Mr. Spock, to signal that I need to try harder to connect with human feelings.

Tonight I don’t have to work at making the connection. I am feeling three distinct emotions. The first is gratitude, to the Arthur Page Center, to colleagues and mentors who have taught me and supported me over… More