Record attendance, announcement of the Foundation's newest journalism award, and a star-studded Keynote panel are just a few of the highlights from the 2024 Mike Quinn Awards Luncheon!

Event Details:

Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Headliners Club
221 W. 6th St., 21st Floor
Austin, TX 78701

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM - VIP Cocktail Reception
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Dinner & Program

Our 4th annual fundraiser will again be held at the Headliners Club in Austin. The evening includes an elegant seated dinner and storytelling from the fairways by Verne Lundquist and his special guest golfer, broadcaster and author David Feherty. We will also be celebrating Verne's 40th anniversary calling the Master's tournament with some special surprises!

Event Details:

Friday, March 3, 2023
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Headliners Club
221 W. 6th St., 21st Floor
Austin, TX 78701

Our 3rd annual fundraiser will again be held at the Headliners Club in Austin. The evening includes an elegant seated dinner and storytelling from the fairways by Verne Lundquist and golfer, broadcaster and author Gary McCord. Underwriters and VIP ticket holders have the added benefit of enjoying a private cocktail reception with Verne, Gary and other celebrity guests prior to the event.

Celebrating Texas Journalism 

2022 MIKE QUINN AWARDS LUNCHEON

On Saturday, October 29, the Headliners Foundation hosted the annual Mike Quinn Awards Luncheon to celebrate our 2022-23 scholarship recipients and professional journalism award winners. More than 100 Foundation friends, supporters, journalists and journalism educators gathered to honor these exceptional individuals for their outstanding work. The event began with a networking reception, and included recognition of the scholarship recipients in attendance, presentation of the Charles E. Green Awards and Showcase Awards for Enterprise and Innovation to Texas' best journalists, and an enlightening Keynote discussion between Foundation Board member Kathleen McElroy and former Texas Tribune Executive Editor and co-founder Ross Ramsey.

Many thanks to all who attended and helped to make this a very special event!

On Saturday, February 26th, the Headliners Foundation hosted the annual Mike Quinn Awards Luncheon to celebrate our 2021-22 scholarship recipients and professional journalism award winners. More than 100 Foundation friends, supporters, journalists and journalism educators gathered to honor these exceptional individuals for their outstanding work. The event began with a networking reception, and included recognition of the scholarship recipients in attendance, presentation of the Charles E. Green Awards and Showcase Awards for Enterprise and Innovation to Texas' best journalists, and an enlightening Keynote panel discussion with Rob Cartwright, news director at CBS Austin, Sewell Chan, editor in chief at the Texas Tribune, and Manny Garcia, executive editor of the Austin American-Statesman, moderated by the director of UT-Austin's School of Journalism and Foundation Board member Kathleen McElroy.

During the program, the Foundation announced two new scholarships to be awarded for the first time in the spring of 2022: The Ellen and Mark Morrison Scholarship and the George A. McElroy Scholarship. The addition of these two scholarships will allow the Foundation to award a record $86,000 to Texas college and university students interested in pursuing a career in journalism.

Many thanks to all who attended and helped to make this a very special event!

The 2019 Mike Quinn Awards Luncheon was held Saturday, September 28, 2019, at the Headliners Club. In addition to honoring our 2019-20 scholarship award winners and professional journalist awardees, the luncheon program featured a keynote presentation with former Headliners Foundation scholarship winners discussing their experience moving from the classroom to the newsroom.

On February 26th, the Foundation will honor legendary sports broadcaster Verne Lundquist with a memorable evening of stories from the sidelines. 

Celebrating Texas Journalism 

“New Directions in Opinion and Commentary” featuring award-winning journalists.

Celebrating Texas Journalism “Breaking News and Beyond” featuring award-winning journalists.

The Headliners Foundation Presents:
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R.B. Brenner, Director, UT School of Journalism at Austin Moody College and former editor at The Washington Post, was the featured speaker at the awards luncheon.

Ann Compton, one of Washington’s most respected journalists, was featured at the Foundation’s Michele Kay Distinguished Speakers Series on Thurs., Feb. 27, 2014.

The annual luncheon of the Headliners Foundation honored this year’s winners of the prestigious Charles E. Green awards for excellence in journalism and introduced the Foundation’s scholarship recipients. Karen Tumulty gave the keynote and shared her views on the political upheaval in Washington, DC with the 60 people in attendance.

Headliners Foundation Chairman Gary Pickle welcomed a full house of guests to the Headliners Club for the October 16, 2012 panel discussion, the third in the Foundation’s Michele Kay Distinguished Speakers Series.  After introducing Robert Schultz, Michele’s husband, Pickle turned the program over to Lindsey Garner, a former student of Michele’s at St. Edward’s University.

The annual luncheon of the Headliners Foundation honored this year’s winners of the prestigious Charles E. Green awards for excellence in journalism and introduced the Foundation’s scholarship recipients.