• October 9, 2007

MPG North American President-CEO Charlie Rutman, American Express Chief Marketing Officer John Hayes, and Martha Stewart Living/Omnimedia President-Media Wenda Harris Millard have been named 2007 recipients of the Reisenbach Distinguished Citizenship Awards, which will be presented Dec. 3 during the 16th Gala Tribute for a Better and Safer New York. The event, the awards, and a foundation, were created in memory of John A. Reisenbach, the All American Television executive who was murdered on a Manhattan street in 1990. Previous Distinguished Citizenship recipients include Discovery Communications' Joe Abruzzese, NielsenConnect's Jon Mandel, DraftFCB's Bill Cella, MTV Networks' Judy McGrath, GroupM's Irwin Gotlieb, producer Dick Wolf, TV executive Dennis Swanson and, former Time Warner chief Gerald Levin.