DeWitt Carter Reddick Awards
Established in 1974, the DeWitt Carter Reddick Award recognizes excellence in the field of communication. Past Reddick Award recipients include Walter Cronkite, Molly Ivins, Nicholas Lemann, Bill Moyers, William S. Paley, William J. Raspberry, Helen Thomas, Ted Turner and Bill Wittliff, among others.
About DeWitt Carter Reddick
DeWitt Carter Reddick was the first dean of the College of Communication. He also was director of the School of Journalism from 1959 to 1965, teaching thousands of journalism students, including Walter Cronkite, Lady Bird Johnson, Ben Sargent and Karen Elliott House, from 1927 until his retirement in 1975.
2021 Award Recipient: Don Mischer
Don Mischer is a producer and director of television and live events, whose work has received extensive recognition nationally and internationally. The breadth of his career also showcases a depth of diversity of talent, voices, and perspectives.
He has been honored with 15 Emmy Awards, a record 10 Directors Guild of America Awards for Outstanding Directorial achievement, two NAACP Image Awards, a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting, Europe’s prestigious Gold Rose of Montreaux and the 2012 Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television from the Producers Guild of America.
Most notably, perhaps, is the Director’s Guild of America’s Lifetime Achievement in Television Award. Mischer is President of Don Mischer Productions; his recent work includes producing/directing the 83rd, 84th, and 85th Academy Awards.
He earned his bachelor of arts degree from The University of Texas at Austin, but it was also during that time, his lifelong appreciation for all aspects of television and film brought him closer to Moody College. He started producing television programs on campus, gaining critical experiences in all aspects of the tireless behind-the-scenes work that he would go on to guide and masterfully direct.
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