Congratulations to Pat Farabaugh, who earned his Ph.D. in Mass Communication from Penn State in 2009, for receiving honorable mention in the American Journalism Historians Association's Margaret A. Blanchard Dissertation Award. Pat, who is an assistant professor at Saint Francis University, was recognized for his dissertation, “Carl McIntire and His Crusade Against the Fairness Doctrine.” I had the pleasure on serving on Pat's dissertation committee and the recognition certainly was deserved. The winner of the award was Ira Chinoy of the University of Maryland for his dissertation, “Battle of the Brains: Election Night Forecasting at the Dawn of the Computer Age.”