Only Place to Have Lunch April 22: FMC Folio Awards!
Who’s Who in Media & Business Turning Out to Fair Media Council’s Folio Awards Luncheon April 22
It’s one of the most important events of the year and oh hey, it’s a luncheon.
No worries about the start of Passover, or making it to your Friday night poker game (You know who you are).
When you have a dais full of news anchors, there’s one thing we can promise you: the Fair Media Council’s Folio Awards Luncheon needs to end by 2 p.m.-ish — otherwise, there may be no evening newscasts.
The only real question is: Have you gotten your ticket yet?
It’s a veritable who’s who in New York metro media and Long Island business expected to be in attendance at the Island’s biggest media event, the Fair Media Council’s Folio Awards from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, April 22, where a record crowd is expected to be on-hand to congratulate the best in news.
For the first time, FMC will be presenting a Lifetime Achievement Award and it goes to none other than New York news icon Ernie Anastos, who has spent his career serving the public interest.
A host of news media favorites will be serving as awards presenters, including FOX 5’s Rosanna Scotto and Greg Kelly, CBS 2’s Mary Calvi, WLNY’s Dick Brennan, WCBS/WPIX’s Craig Allen, WPIX’s Brenda Blackmon, WCBS Newsradio 880’s Wayne Cabot, NBC New York’s Michael Gargiulo … and many more.
In honor of Anastos, expect a Mediterranean-style menu created specifically for the event by Crest Hollow Country Club Chef Chris Palmer, complete with baklava for dessert.
Fox 5 News Vice President Byron Harmon will do the official honors of presenting to Anastos — and all the top brass will be in attendance.
FMC welcomes back Long Island high school student and former NBC’s The Voice contestant MarissaAnn to perform the National Anthem with a touch of rock and roll tossed into it, and an overview of Long Island’s changing media landscape will be delivered by FMC CEO Jaci Clement. It’s an important talk about how the changing media impacts business and life here as we know it.
The event includes nearly 40 business and community leaders who served as judges of the program and are among the best-known names in the region:
- Bob Horvath, RAPP
- Bruce Lambert, The New York Times (retired)
- Charles Skop, Meyer Suozzi English & Klein, P.C.
- Charlie MacLeod, Sanna Mattson MacLeod
- Chris Wright, Protiviti
- David Chauvin, Zimmerman/Edelson, Inc.
- David Okorn, Long Island Community Foundation
- Ernest T. Bartol, Murphy, Bartol & O’Brien
- George Gorman, Jr., New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
- James Kinney, WeiserMazars LLP
- Janine Giorgenti, Giorgenti New York
- Jeffrey Morosoff, Hofstra University
- Jeffrey Reynolds, Family & Children’s Association
- Joe Calderone, South Nassau Communities Hospital
- Joseph Sellitto, Bradley & Parker
- John Durso, Long Island Federation of Labor
- Kathy Coley, Farmingdale State College
- Kevin Dahill, Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council/Suburban Health Care Alliance
- Kevin Kelly, BigBuzz Marketing Group
- Kim Kaiman, Town of North Hempstead Business & Tourism Development Corp.
- Marianne Garvin, Community Development Corporation of Long Island
- Melissa Connolly, Hofstra University
- Mike Dawidziak, Strategic-Planning.com
- Orlando Milian, Douglas Elliman
- Patricia Quinn, United Cerebral Palsy of Nassau County
- Patrick Calabria, Farmingdale State College
- Patrick Macri, Millennium Communications
- Paul Focazio, New York Sea Grant
- Phil Rugile, egifter.com/Launchpad Huntington
- Ray Caliendo, Art-of-Form Architectural Services
- Richard Turan, Turan Family Foundation
- Rita Castagna, Castagna Realty
- Rob Salvatico, Jaral Properties
- Robert B. Catell, AERTC and NYS Smart Grid Consortium, Stony Brook University
- Roslyn Goldmacher, Long Island Development Corp.
- Terry Lynam, Northwell Health
The judges represent the ultimate critic: The public. The Folio Awards program is a highly visible way to provide feedback to our local newsrooms on how well they are covering the communities, and what the public wants to see, hear and read in its news. The judges perform a great public service by sacrificing hundreds of hours to review hundreds of entries into the Folio Awards program. But only the best walk away with a Folio.
Sponsored by Bethpage Federal Credit Union, Northwell Health, WeiserMazars LLP, Briarcliffe College, Hofstra University, NYIT, South Nassau Communities Hospital, YMCA of Long Island, PSEG Long Island, Protiviti, Murphy, Bartol & O’Brien, FOX5/my 9 news, WCBS/WLNY, NBC4, Epoch 5 Public Relations, Vision Long Island, Big Daddy Golf Classic, Live It Up! with Donna Drake, and more, as things are just now heating up.
For reservations to attend the Fair Media Council’s Folio Awards Luncheon on Friday, April 22 from 11 am to 2 pm at Crest Hollow Country Club, click here. Advance reservations are required.
About Fair Media Council
FMC has been serving the public interest in media matters since 1979. A 501c3 nonprofit organization, FMC advocates for quality local news and works to create a media savvy society.