Jane Pauley & Garry Trudeau Receive Journalism Awards
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Jane Pauley of CBS Sunday Morning receives 2025 Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Tampa.
Also honored at the Bowtie Ball gala was Doonesbury cartoonist Garry B. Trudeau with the 2025 Poynter Distinguished Service to Journalism Award
Jennifer Orsi at Poynter reports on the 2025 Poynter Bowtie Ball:
TAMPA, Florida (Nov. 16, 2025) — Legendary television journalist Jane Pauley of CBS Sunday Morning was awarded the Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism on Saturday at the Poynter Institute’s Bowtie Ball.
Pauley has a trailblazing career that spans more than 50 years, from being the first woman to anchor an evening news broadcast in Chicago, to being a host on NBC’s Today show at age 25, to the anchor of Dateline to her nearly decade-long tenure with Sunday Morning.
The annual gala is the nonprofit Poynter Institute’s premiere fundraising event, and this year marked the 50th anniversary of Poynter’s founding in 1975.
Also in attendance and being awarded was Garry B. Trudeau of Doonesbury fame:
In addition to honoring Pauley, Poynter also bestowed its Distinguished Service to Journalism Awards to Garry Trudeau, the Pulitzer-Prize winning creator of Doonesbury – and Pauley’s husband – and to Dean Baquet, the former executive editor of The New York Times and currently the executive editor of its Local Investigations Fellowship.
Amaris Castillo also filed a report for Poynter:
Though Pauley and Trudeau chose to raise their children out of the spotlight, she drew laughs recalling the time she brought them onto her daytime show in a desperate scramble to fill segment time. It didn’t go very smoothly.
“Before that, Garry and I were really private about our children, but that seemed only to enhance the credibility of an authenticity, if you will,” she said.
feature image: Chris Kozlowski/Poynter
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