Cory Booker to speak at virtual Newhouse-hosted Toner Prize ceremony
Alex Malanoski | Staff Photographer
The Toner Prize was established by Robin Toner’s friends, family and classmates after she died in 2008.
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U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) will be the keynote speaker in a virtual ceremony sponsored by Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications on March 26 at 7 p.m., the school announced Monday.
The prerecorded ceremony will honor the recipients of the Toner Prizes for Excellence in Political Reporting, which the Newhouse School sponsors to honor the work of Robin Toner, an SU graduate and the first female national correspondent for The New York Times. Melanie Hicken, a 2009 SU graduate and senior writer at CNN Investigates will serve as master of ceremonies.