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Associate Director, American Press Institute, Reston, Virginia Appearing at: Visual Journalism Workshop (Texas) 01/16/2009 - 01/16/2009 Visual Journalism Workshop (Florida) 02/06/2009 - 02/06/2009 Visual Journalism Workshop (Kentucky) 02/20/2009 - 02/20/2009 Seminar Schedule
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John Seigenthaler 
 John SeigenthalerChairman, The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
John Seigenthaler He left journalism in the early 1960s to become the administrative assist to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy in the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1962, Mr. Seigenthaler served as the Kennedy administration's chief negotiator with the Governor of Alabama during the Freedom Rides crisis. When a riot broke out at the Montgomery, Alabama bus terminal, he was beaten by a mob of Klansmen when he sought to protect the Freedom Riders. He suffered head injuries and was hospitalized. As a reporter, Mr. Seigenthaler was a member of the American Press Institute investigative reporting class in 1957. As an editor, he was widely known as a recruiter and mentor to talented young journalists. Reporters who began their career with him at The Tennessean went on to serve as editors of a dozen daily newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel, The Atlanta Constitution, The Cleveland Plain Dealer and The Tennessean.Still, another young reporter he recruited to the Tennessean became a 2007 Nobel Prize laureate – former Vice President Al Gore, who was a Tennessean reporter for five years before entering politics. During Mr. Gore's time at The Tennessean, he also was a member of the 1972 API seminar on investigative reporting.Mr. Seigenthaler retired from USA TODAY and The Tennessean in 1991 to found the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University.Along with Ken Paulson, editor of USA TODAY, he was honored with the American Press Institute's Lifetime Service Award in October 2007. That year, he also received the First Amendment Award of the Society of Professional Journalists for his long commitment to freedom of expression. Mr. Seigenthaler is a senior board member of the Freedom Forum. Mr. Seigenthaler attended two API J. Montgomery Curtis Memorial Seminars in 1987 and
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