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- ↑ "Paul White Award". Radio Television Digital News Association. Retrieved 2014-05-27.
- ↑ "Records of the Radio-Television News Directors Association - Special Collections - the University of Iowa Libraries".
- ↑ "Wires and Lights in a Box Speech". Radio Television Digital News Association. Retrieved 2016-12-22.
- ↑ RTDNA Scholarship and Fellowship Information
- ↑ RTDNA Fellowship Information