Full Text of HR0202 96th General Assembly
HR0202 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans | 3 |
| will present its
annual "Dante Award" on May 21, 2009 to Greg | 4 |
| Caputo, News Director for WGN-TV in Chicago; and
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| WHEREAS, Greg Caputo joined WGN-TV as News Director in | 6 |
| December 2002; he leads the news operation of consistently | 7 |
| top-ranked local newscasts: WGN Morning News, WGN Midday News, | 8 |
| WGN Evening News, and WGN News at Nine; during his time as News | 9 |
| Director, the WGN Morning News, WGN Midday News, and WGN | 10 |
| Evening News broadcasts have all expanded; and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Caputo joined WGN-TV from Tribune station | 12 |
| WLVI-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, where he served as news | 13 |
| director for seven years; during his time at WLVI News, the | 14 |
| news program remained a consistent market leader at 10pm, | 15 |
| earning multiple local Emmys, as well as Associated Press and | 16 |
| RTNDA Awards; and
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| WHEREAS, Prior to WLVI, Mr. Caputo spent three years as | 18 |
| corporate director of news for Malrite Communications group in | 19 |
| Ohio; while there, he launched a news operation at their Fox | 20 |
| affiliate WXIX, Cincinnati, Ohio, and assumed news leadership | 21 |
| at the new two station cluster of CBS affiliate WOIO and | 22 |
| independent station WUAB in Cleveland, Ohio;
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| WHEREAS, As Vice President and News Director at WFLD in | 2 |
| Chicago in 1985 and from 1987 to 1993, Mr. Caputo developed and | 3 |
| launched news broadcasts on the station; he held the same | 4 |
| position at WNYW, New York and WTTG, Washington, D.C. from 1986 | 5 |
| to 1987; and
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| WHEREAS, Starting in 1972 and into 1985, Mr. Caputo held a | 7 |
| variety of positions at WBBM-TV, a CBS affiliate, leading to | 8 |
| the news director position in 1983; he also worked for Group W | 9 |
| Television KDKA-TV as their assignment manager in the | 10 |
| mid-1970s;
and
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| WHEREAS, Mr. Caputo started in the industry as a reporter, | 12 |
| writer, producer, photographer, and editor at WNDU-TV and Radio | 13 |
| in South Bend, Indiana in 1968;
he graduated from the | 14 |
| University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Arts degree in | 15 |
| Communication Arts and received his MS-J from Northwestern | 16 |
| University's prestigious Medill School of Journalism;
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| WHEREAS, He has been President of the Board of Governors of | 18 |
| the Boston-New England Chapter of NATAS, a Governor of the | 19 |
| Chicago Chapter of NATAS, and a member of the RTNDA; he has | 20 |
| also been a guest lecturer at many prestigious universities | 21 |
| including Northwestern University, Columbia University in New | 22 |
| York, Boston University, Emerson College in Boston, and others; |
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| WHEREAS, The Dante Award is given by the Joint Civic | 3 |
| Committee of Italian Americans annually; the Joint Civic | 4 |
| Committee on Italian Americans is an independent non-profit | 5 |
| association dedicated to preserving Italian-American heritage | 6 |
| and providing a unified voice for metropolitan Chicago's | 7 |
| Italian-American community; the Dante Award is given to a | 8 |
| member of the local news media who has answered Dante | 9 |
| Alighieri's call to be no timid friend to truth; therefore, be | 10 |
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 12 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 13 |
| congratulate Greg Caputo on being named the recipient of the | 14 |
| 2009 Dante Award, presented by the Joint Civic Committee of | 15 |
| Italian Americans, for his dedication, service, and | 16 |
| inspiration in the field of news; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 |
| presented to Greg Caputo
with our respect and esteem.
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