Urbino Press Award 2013 Goes to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer

The annual Urbino Press Award was recently presented to Wolf Blitzer, lead political anchor at CNN and host of the program The Situation Room. Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero made the announcement at a reception held at the Italian Embassy. The goal of the award is to recognize excellence in American journalists who, through their commitment and daily work, conscientiously inform millions of people.

At the reception Bisogniero noted that Blitzer represents a brand of quality journalism and that he has created a strong professional image during the course of his extraordinary career. In accepting the award, Blitzer said that he was proud to have been selected and was accepting the award in the name of all his colleagues at CNN.

During the Renaissance, the city of Urbino gave life to one of the most enlightened courts of Europe, enriched by the genius of the likes of writer Baldassarre Castiglione and poet Torquato Tasso. With the award, the city is showing its appreciation of the voice and experience of today’s top reporters as outstanding interpreters of events that are changing our world.

The award will be officially presented to Blitzer this summer in Urbino’s Ducal Palace. Since the award’s inception, Giovanni Lani, president of the Urbino Press Award, has brought to some of America’s best journalists to the city, including past winners Sebastiano Rotella of Pro Publica, Helene Cooper of the New York Times, David Ignatius of the Washington Post, Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, Martha Raddatz of ABC news, and Michael Weisskopf of Time magazine