UW journalism school to honor Cardinal Alum Naomi Patton

Cardinal alum and DCAA board member Naomi Patton will be one of four honored at the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication's annual awards dinner April 24 at 6pm at the Gordon Dining & Event Center Symphony Room on campus.

Patton, currently a vice president at Weber Shandwick, a global public relations firm, will receive a Distinguished Service Award from the school. Patton was a staff writer at the Wisconsin State Journal for more than three years before joining the Detroit Free Press in 2003. For the next ten years she worked at the Freep, where she was part of a team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for its investigation that led to the resignation of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

After leaving the Free Press, Patton served as press secretary for Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and worked as Senior Director of Public Relations for Palace Sports & Entertainment, which among other properties runs the arena where the NBA's Detroit Pistons play.

Also being honored at the dinner are: Christina Daglas (Ralph O. Nafziger Award); Steve Reese (Harold L. Nelson Award); and Mike McCabe (Distinguished Service Award).