Life Career Achievement Argil Prize
Monday, January 12th, 2015 | Articles
Rome, 12nd December 2014 – Dennis Redmont was awarded a Life Career Achievement Argil prize by the European Union’s office in Rome and the national associations of Journalists of Italy.Redmont was honored for his four decades of work with the AP,reporting from 80 countries,followed by a teaching career at Graduate School of Journalism and Public Broadcasting at Perugia University, and also for his development of Young Leaders in Italy and the United States in his capacity as head of Media and Developmet at the Council for US and Italy.
The citation read: “he trained a generation of professionals during 15 years of teaching, acting as a great mentor and communicator,as well as reporter and correspondent”.
The Argil prize was named after one of the oldest human fossils in Europe , about 430,000 BC, found 20 years ago in a strata of clay at Ceprano, near Rome.
Other honorees of this year’s prize included Giuseppe Tornatore,the film director of “Cinema Paradiso” for his role in spreading Italian culture.