Verizon CEO To Receive High-Tech Emmy

January 4, 2009

While visitors to Las Vegas this week should not expect the Hollywood stars, paparazzi and red carpet that make the Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles so scrumptious, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards is a fitting tribute to innovators as part of the Consumer Electronics Show. The awards were launched 60 years ago to honor developments in broadcast technology and recognize companies, organizations and individuals for breakthroughs that have a significant effect on television engineering.

Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg will receive a lifetime achievement award at the Wednesday evening ceremony. Seidenberg was instrumental in forming Verizon through a number of mergers and acquisitions including Bell Atlantic and NYNEX in 1997; GTE in 2000; and MCI in 2006. He also helped Verizon create what is now Verizon Wireless in 1999 and championed the deployment of the company's high-speed fiber-optic FiOS Internet, telephone, and TV service. Other honorees include DirecTV, Harris Corporation, Hitachi, Intel, Philips, Scripps Networks, Sony Corporation, Tandberg Television, Toshiba, and XOrbit. Read more about the awards here.

Juliana Gruenwald

Tech Writer

E-Mail: jgruenwald@nationaljournal.com.

Juliana Gruenwald has been covering tech and telecom issues for more than a decade for National Journal, Interactive Week, BNA and Congressional Quarterly. This is her second stint with National Journal. She was recruited by NJ in 1998 to help launch its first tech policy publication, Technology Daily. She left in 2000 to cover international tech and telecom issues for Ziff Davis Media's Interactive Week magazine. She started her career at United Press International as the wire service's first Helen Thomas Intern. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota. A Minneapolis native, she misses the lakes but not the cold.

Josh Smith

Tech Reporter

E-Mail: joshsmith@nationaljournal.com.

Josh Smith covers technology policy as a staff reporter for National Journal. He previously interned at National Journal Daily, a Senate press office, and the Deseret News in Salt Lake City where he covered the state legislature, courts, and crime. In 2009 he graduated with honors from Southern Utah University after managing an award-winning student newspaper as editor-in-chief. Josh has received state, regional and national awards for his political and policy reporting, including first place in CapitolBeat’s 2009 Best of Statehouse Reporting college competition. A native of drop-dead-gorgeous Utah, Josh lives in Virginia with his wife, Amber.

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