Ben Feller Honored for Coverage of President Obama
May 19, 2010 at 9:38 am Amy Guyer 1 comment
We told you Ben Feller ’92 Com was good at his job. Feller, a White House correspondent for the Associated Press, recently earned the Merriman Smith Award from the White House Correspondents’ Association for his coverage of President Obama’s secret trip to Dover Air Force Base to greet the coffins of fallen soldiers. (The photo at right shows Ben and the President at the annual WHCA dinner earlier this month.) The Dover piece also was among the work cited by the Gerald R. Ford Foundation when it honored Feller with its Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency.
We’ve mentioned Feller a few times in our blog, and he was our cover story in our May/June 2009 issue; now he (jokingly) credits his success to our coverage: “See what happens when you give people coverage in The Penn Stater?” Feller wrote in an e-mail. “Good things happen—I see cause and effect here!”
That’s very nice of Ben, but his success is more likely related to his being a “master of deadline reporting,” among the other accolades listed by the awards judges.
Amy Guyer, associate editor
Entry filed under: College of Communications, Famous Penn Staters, Penn State alumni, Penn Staters in the news media, The Penn Stater magazine. Tags: Associated Press, Barack Obama, Ben Feller, Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency, Merriman Smith Award, White House, White House Correspondents Association.
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