Edinburgh University honorary degree
University of Edinburgh awards Mugabe the Honorary Degree of Doctoris Honoris Causa for services to education in Africa.
Honoured not only for his extraordinary intellectual discipline and energy but for those qualities of statesmanship which made him one of the great figures of modern Africa.
Cosby Show wins Golden Globe
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Spingarn Medal
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People awards Cosby the Spingarn Medal for outstanding achievement. The award was instituted in 1914 by J.E. Spingarn honoring African Americans for high achievement.
Wins American Music Award
Jackson wins the American Music Award for Award of Appreciation and Song of the Year.
Honorary degree
University of Massachusetts awards Robert Mugabe an honorary law degree. for his “exemplary devotion to social justice. University president:
[Mugabe’s] gentle firmness in the face of anger and intellectual approach to matters which inflame the emotions of others, are hallmarks of quiet integrity.
Win American Music Award
0 0 Jamie Jamie2014-10-08 23:42:192015-02-08 00:10:39Win American Music AwardWins American Music Award
Jackson wins the American Music Award for Special Achievement Award.
Thank you very much…first I’d like to thank God who makes all things possible…
Wins American Music Award
Jackson wins the American Music Award for International Artist Award, Favorite Album (Pop/Rock), and Favorite Single (Soul/R&B).
I’d like to thank everyone at Sony Music….and of course all my fans- I Love You.
Awarded knighthood
Mugabe is made a Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Bath on the advice of Prime Minister Major. It entitles him to use the letters KCB, but not to use the title “Sir.”
Wins American Music Award
0 0 Jamie Jamie2014-10-08 23:42:172015-02-08 00:10:51Wins American Music AwardMTV Movie Award for Apollo 13
Hanks wins Best Male Performance for his role in Apollo 13 at the 1996 MTV Movie Awards.
Receives Nelson Mandela Award
Zuma receives the Nelson Mandela Award for Outstanding Leadership for his role in ending political violence in KwaZulu-Natal, in Washington DC in the USA.
MTV Movie Awards: Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan wins Best Action Sequence and a win for Hanks as Best Male Performance at the 1999 MTV Movie Awards.
Wins VMA
Aaliyah wins the VMA’s award for Best Female Video and Best Video From a Film for her song, Try Again, from the Romeo Must Die soundtrack.
This is a shock … this is a big shock.
Guardian Media 100: No. 81
Highfield is placed at 81 in The Guardian’s Media 100 list of the UK’s most powerful media people.
He will be judged on modernising the corporation’s attitude to digital media and reaching a young, tech-savvy audience, which the BBC is in danger of losing.
Wins American Music Award
Jackson wins the American Music Award for Artist of the Century.
I’d like to thank all the important people in my life, my Mother and Father…
Guardian Media 100: No. 25
Highfield is placed at 25 in The Guardian’s Media 100 list of the UK’s most powerful media people.
The heat is being turned up on the Beeb’s internet activities after the culture secretary, Tessa Jowell, ordered it to justify the £112m it spends each year on its online and interactive services…The Beeb’s less popular websites are facing the axe (including Crimewatch and Watchdog), while its focus on interactive TV will shift away from high-profile “events”.
Guardian Media 100: No. 33
Highfield is placed at 33 in The Guardian’s Media 100 list of the UK’s most powerful media people.
Highfield, perhaps the BBC’s most consummate empire builder, has spent most of the last year on the back foot. In the run-up to the government-ordered Graf report into the BBC’s new media operations, he spent a great deal of time defending the BBC’s online reputation, commissioning KMPG to rebuff accusations that bbc.co.uk unfairly distorted the marketplace.
Guardian Media 100: No. 23
Highfield is placed at 23 in The Guardian’s Media 100 list of the UK’s most powerful media people.
Highfield has had a much better year than last, when he was regarded as very much on the back foot after the government-ordered Graf report into the BBC’s online operations.While a string of websites have been shut as a result of Graf and the government’s green paper, Highfield’s new media department is expected to be one of the prime beneficiaries of director general Mark Thompson’s controversial plans to make annual savings of £355m.
No 1 in Marketing magazine’s Power 50
Highfield is awarded the top spot in Marketing magazine’s Power 50 selection. The magazine says:
The reason Highfield made number one in the Power 50 is that, so far, the BBC has not just made sense of digital but managed to drag its enormous self to the very front of its development. Highfield has led it there, while [Director General Mark] Thompson is a digital convert himself.
Highfield:
I wonder if it’s our place in the industry, which Tessa Jowell once described as the creative R&D for the nation. Whether we’re expected to innovate because we can, because we can take a long-term view on it or because we are funded differently; that we can be expected to take risks and try things out. And I think having the UK’s largest content web site, that’s got to be one of the reasons why we’ve got this huge role as a route to market. But I do hope it’s more the positive aspects of what we can do to help drive the industry – drive the market – than the 900lb gorilla that distorts the market…First and foremost is our audience, which is why we get the licence fee. You’ve got 16 million people (using BBC.co.uk), so we have an obligation to be there. It’s not something we can play around with any more. For me, number one is meeting these sometimes frightening audience demands, but not doing so in a way that distorts the market. Far from it. What we are trying to do is make sure that, in getting out to more and more people, we don’t end up dominating share.