Silurians Lifetime Achievement Award: Joyce Purnick

It is safe it say that there are few reporters who have been as savvy and articulate in reporting on the politics and personalities of New York as Joyce Purnick. That is why the governing board of the Silurians Press Club has decided to honor her with the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award at a luncheon at noon March 15 at the National Arts Club.

Joyce spent more than 40 years reporting, analyzing and editing the news, particularly political news, of her native New York. For many years, she was The Times's Metro Matters columnist, receiving the prestigious Meyer Berger Award for her writing. She was also the first woman to serve as The Times’s City Hall bureau chief and its Metropolitan Editor. She was named a member of The Times's Editorial Board, and wrote the biography “Mike Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics.'' Before joining the Times, she had a distinguished career at the New York Post and wrote New York Magazine's City Politics column. A stepmother of three and grandmother of six, she lives in Manhattan with her husband Max Frankel, the former executive editor of the Times.

Previous recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award read like a roster of the city’s legendary journalists: beginning with Walter Cronkite, and including Gay Talese, Ken Auletta, Frank Rich, Seymour Topping, Marvin and Bernard Kalb, Gloria Steinem, Judith Crist, Murray Kempton, Pete Hamill, Punch Sulzberger and Max Frankel, as well as last year's winner, Chester Higgins.

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Joe Berger

President Silurians Press Club

The date: Wednesday, March 15, 2023

The time: Noon.

The place: The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South.

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