Byron Allen Gets Fred Dressler Leadership Award at Mirror Awards in NYC

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Award, named for Time Warner Cable exec, given to those who best contribute to public’s understanding of the media

Byron Allen
Byron Allen (Image credit: Allen Media Group)

Byron Allen, founder, chairman and CEO of Allen Media Group, gets the Fred Dressler Leadership Award at the 2024 Mirror Awards June 13 in New York. Established by Syracuse’s Newhouse School in 2006, the Mirror Awards honor the reporters, editors and teams of writers who “hold a mirror to their own industry for the public’s benefit,” according to the Mirror Awards. 

The Dressler Award is given to those who have made “distinct and consistent contributions to the public’s understanding of the media,” according to the Mirror Awards. Past recipients include Judy Woodruff, senior correspondent at PBS; Jorge Ramos, anchor with Univision Noticias; Sheila Nevins, former president of HBO Documentary Films; and former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw. 

Fred Dressler was executive VP, programming, Time Warner Cable. He died in 2007. 

Allen Media Group owns TV stations WEVV Evansville, WKOW Madison and KEZI Eugene, among many others, along with The Weather Channel, TheGrio, Cars.TV and other media properties. 

Erica Hill, CNN anchor and national correspondent, hosts the Mirror Awards at the Edison Ballroom in New York. 

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.