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| The Wall Street Journal. was the leading prize winner in this year's National Press Club Award |
ROSTER OF NATIONAL PRESS CLUB
J-AWARDS--
By Will
Lester (wjlester@aol.com)--The Wall Street Journal won three
awards, while USA Today and Mother Jones won a couple each in the
2014 National Press Club Journalism contest.
Molly Ball
of The Atlantic won the Lee Walczak
Award for Political Analysis for her coverage of the divided Republican Party
after the 2012 election. The Wall Street
Journal won the Joan M. Friedenberg Online Journalism Award for its detailed look at lobotomies. The
Washington Post won the Breaking News-Print award for its coverage of the
Navy Yard mass shootings.
Among
broadcast entries, KNTV of San Francisco
won the Consumer Journalism-Broadcast award for stories about Sysco Corp.
leaving perishable food destined for restaurants, hotels, hospitals and schools
in outdoor, unrefrigerated storage units.
GlobalPost’s Patrick Winn and Jonah Kessel won
the Edwin Hood Diplomatic Award for broadcasters for their documentary on
Myanmar.
The award
winners will be honored at a dinner at the National Press Club on Wednesday,
July 30.
NPC journalism
contest winners
Ann Cottrell Free Animal Reporting Award: Ted Genoways of Mother Jones takes a close look at the history and impact of what are called “ag-gag” laws, which are on the books in eight states and have been introduced in many more. These laws make it a crime to shoot undercover video or photographs of conditions in animal agriculture facilities.
Breaking News–Print: The
Washington Post for coverage of the September 2013 shooting at the Navy
Yards in Washington that killed 12 and wounded several others.
Consumer Journalism-Newspapers: USA Today’s Alison Young for “Supplement Shell Game,” a thorough
look at a food-and-drug issue that resulted in congressional action and two dietary
supplements being pulled from the market.
Consumer Journalism-Periodicals: “Breathless and Burdened” by The Center for Public Integrity/ABC News:
The thorough report looked at the plight of miners who faced court rules that
seemed to be written in favor of coal companies. The coverage resulted in
immediate suspension of Johns Hopkins black lung program that had repeatedly
found in favor of coal companies.
Consumer Journalism-Broadcast: The San Francisco station KNTV -- using hidden cameras -- tracked
trucks of Sysco Corp. leaving perishable food in outdoor, unrefrigerated
storage units, sometimes for hours.
Edwin Hood
Diplomatic Award
Print: Wall
Street Journal reporter Adam Entous for “Great Power Failure: How U.S.
Missteps in Syria changed the Middle East.”
Broadcast: GlobalPost’s
Patrick Winn (reporter) and Jonah Kessel (videographer) for “Myanmar Emerges:
Promise & Peril.”
Washington Regional Reporting: Katherine Skiba of the Chicago Tribune for a diverse body of
work, including a look at the extent of former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s
corruption and a fresh look at congressional foreign travel.
Rowse Press Criticism: Michael Calderone of The Huffington Post looked carefully at
media issues involving foreign affairs from Afghanistan to Iraq to Benghazi in
Libya.
Newsletter Journalism: Jen Judson with Inside the Army for her article that
broke the news on the Army’s plan to eliminate its Kiowas helicopter and
instead use Apache helicopters that would be taken from the National Guard --
valuable news for the newsletter’s target audience.
Joan M. Friedenberg Online Journalism
Award: “The Lobotomy
Files” by The Wall Street Journal was
a strong piece of investigative journalism that used primary documents, photos
and other visuals to bring the story to life. Case studies helped tell the
story through the eyes of those who experienced the lobotomies.
Angele Gingras Humor Award: Tim Murphy of Mother Jones for clever and brightly written stories including a
laugh-out-loud piece -- “A Day in the Life of a Snowden-Chasing Journalist at
Sheremetyevo International Airport" -- and a lengthy story on how the
Pentagon would wage war on Santa Claus and the North Pole that laid out the
military troops, weapons and tactics that could be used to take on Santa, his
loyal elves and his sidekick Krampus, "a massive goat-demon."
Sandy Hume Memorial Award for
Excellence in Political Journalism:
Ted Mann of The Wall Street Journal,
for a series of stories on the New Jersey bridge scandal. Mann’s dogged work on
the traffic jams stemming from the shutdown of lanes leading to the George
Washington Bridge was cited as “a great example of classic enterprise
journalism.”
Joseph D. Ryle Award for Excellence
in Writing on the Problems of Geriatics: “Nursing Homes’ Broken Trusts,” an investigation by USA Today's Peter Eisler, revealed the
level of theft and mismanagement of nursing home residents’ trust funds managed
by administrative staff in nursing homes across America.
Michael A. Dornheim Award: Sara Sorcher of National Journal for stories that
explored defense procurement, civil applications of unmanned aerial vehicles,
federal budgeting and congressional oversight.
Lee Walczak Award for Political
Analysis: Molly Ball
of The Atlantic for her coverage of
the Republican Party’s internal struggles after the 2012 elections. The judges
said her work was in the best tradition of Lee Walczak, who spearheaded
political coverage at Bloomberg and at Business Week magazine for over 20
years.
President's Award,
Press Freedom Award winners
Special recognition will go to Associated Press photographer Anja
Niedringhaus and reporter Kathy Gannon, who are being honored with the National
Press Club's President's Award. The President’s Award is presented only on
special occasions by the Club president with the approval of the Club's Board
of Governors.
Niedringhaus,
from Germany, was a winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news
photography as part of an AP team that covered the war in Iraq. Gannon, from
Canada, has reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan for nearly three decades.
Niedringhaus
was killed in Afghanistan, and Gannon was wounded in the same attack April 4
when an Afghan police commander opened fire on them as they sat in a car that
was part of a convoy traveling to eastern Afghanistan's city of Khost under
protection of security forces to cover the elections. The two had worked
together repeatedly in Afghanistan since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, often
focusing on the war's impact on Afghan civilians.
An
exhibition of Niedringhaus’ photos will be on display in the Club lobby at the
end of July to coincide with the awards dinner, being held July 30.
Also being
honored at the dinner are an Illinois reporter, Joseph Hosey, of Patch.com, fighting prosecutorial
pressure to disclose the identity of a confidential source and a Bahraini freelance
photographer, Ahmed Humaidan, sentenced to a decade in jail effectively because
he did his job. They are the winners of the National Press Club's 2014 John
Aubuchon Press Freedom Award.
Each year,
the Club honors two recipients of the award, one foreign and one domestic, who
have demonstrated through their work the principles of press freedom and open
government. The award is named after the late John Aubuchon, a former NPC
president who championed press freedom.
NPC journalism
contest honorable mention winners
Breaking News-print: The Associated Press’ coverage of the tornado in Oklahoma that killed
24 people, among them seven children killed inside a school that didn't have a
shelter
Consumer Journalism-newspapers: Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review, “VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System,” by Adam Smeltz, Luis
Fabregas, Mike Wereschagin and Lou Kilzer, that looked into the cause of a
Legionnaires' disease outbreak that left five dead and 16 sick.
Consumer Journalism-periodicals: Megan Twohey of Reuters. Reuters
uncovered a vast network of informal child trading that endangered mostly
foreign children brought to the United States without safeguards.
Regional Reporting: Jerry Zremski of the Buffalo News for reporting that included
a scoop about local veterans' health being put at risk and safety hazards at an
airline that had a fatal crash.
Newsletter Journalism: Brian Hansen with Platts Megawatt Daily for his article on
the how the federal government is increasingly using electric utilities’ own
computer-modeling data against them in air pollution cases.
Free Animal Reporting: “Bloody Skies: The Fight to Reduce
Deadly Bird-Plane Collisions,” Eric Uhlfelder, National Geographic.com.
Friedenberg Online Reporting: The
Arizona Republic for its coverage of the use of deadly force at the border.
Sandy Hume Award: Scot Paltrow and Kelly Carr of Reuters for a well-researched and
documented story on Pentagon spending.
Ryle Geriatric Award: Bryan Gruley of Bloomberg News for his intensive
reporting on whether people with dementia have the mental ability to have
consensual sex.
Dornheim Award: W.J. Hennigan of the Los Angeles Times for reporting that
spanned the perilous state of the Forest Service’s aging firefighting
airplanes, the past and future of U.S. Air Force bombers and an “aviation
archeologist.”
Lee Walczak Award: Neil King Jr. of The Wall Street Journal, led an effort
to examine how the Republican Party is operating at the state and local level
to redefine itself and appeal to new voters after the 2012 election.
SOURCE:
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