Roberts to host NAB Gala

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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ABC News' Cokie Roberts will emcee the National Association of Broadcasters' fourth annual "Service to America Summit" June 10 in Washington, D.C.

Roberts is ABC News' chief congressional analyst, and she also co-anchors
This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts on Sunday mornings. She
also contributes to National Public Radio as a political-news analyst.

Roberts has won numerous awards for her work, including an Emmy Award, the Edward
R. Murrow Award and the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Congressional
coverage.

She joined ABC in 1988, coming from PBS-TV's MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour.

The NAB's Service to America Summit honors outstanding public service by
broadcasters and their local partners.

The event also will recognize the NAB's Crystal Radio award winners.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.