New York, NY — Top industry leaders
gathered to fete David M. Zaslav,
President & CEO of Discovery
Communications, with the Steven J. Ross
Humanitarian Award, at UJA-Federation of
New York’s Entertainment, Media &
Communications Division’s Leadership
Awards Dinner on Tuesday, April 3,
2012. The dinner was held at event
space 583 Park Avenue, at 63rd
Street, in Manhattan, at 6:30 p.m.
Oprah Winfrey;
Tom Brokaw; Elie Wiesel;
Jackson Browne; Stacy London
(What Not to Wear, TLC); Niecy
Nash & Jay Tucker (Leave it to
Niecy, TLC); Keith Colburn (Deadliest
Catch, Discovery Channel)
Dave Salmoni (Frontier Earth with
Dave Salmoni, Animal Planet),
Katherine Kallinis and Sophie
LaMontagne (DC Cupcakes,
TLC); CNBC’s
Sue Herera
and Joe Kernan;
Aaron Miller,
Distinguished Scholar, Woodrow Wilson
Center and former U.S. Middle East
negotiator; David Ignatius,
Columnist and Associated Editor, The
Washington Post; Ambassador Robert
Ford, United States Ambassador to
Syria; and John Hendricks,
founder & chairman of Discovery
Communications,
are expected to join hundreds of
business leaders and philanthropists to
recognize
Zaslav’s well-known generosity,
philanthropic and professional
leadership, and dedication to
UJA-Federation and caring for those in
need.
The Steven J. Ross Humanitarian Award is
among the premier philanthropic awards
given to a leader in the entertainment
industry whose spirit of generosity and
kindness is both boundless and selfless.
Past recipients include Jeff Zucker,
Michael Eisner, Rupert Murdoch,
Sumner M. Redstone, and Richard
Parsons.
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