THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award

THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award David ShawLos: Angeles Tines With more than 300 bureaus and an audience of more than a billion, the Associated Press is the worlds largest news...

...The report also made the important point that "it would take abort ' 5 billion a yeas to elevate every senior citizen in America above the poverty level,- a sum easily raised by fully taxing the Social Security benefits of the elderly with independent incomes of $30000 a year...
...Steven Kroft and Steven Reiner "West 57th Street" in this unusually critical report, CBS showed just how powerful the elderly' lobby has become...
...Seymour Hersh told Shaw drat when he covered Vietnam for AP, he deliberately wrote his more controversial stories late in the day, after nervous editors had, gone home, to be sure the copy would run without being watered down...
...But as David Shaw proves, AP has botched important stories (like the_ assassination of Amin Gemayel),and its frantic Corporate culture - prods ono of its best reporters to leave...
...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
...Two copies of the article or broadcast text should accompany the nomination...
...Donald L. Bartlett and James B. SteeleThe Philadelphia Inquirer In an exhaustive series on the 'Fax Reform pct or 198u, Bartlett and Steele showed how...
...Congress failed to caulk extraordinary, loopholes, Ilk,, the paragraph that exempts a "562-foot passenger cruise ship" The Monthly JOurnalism Award is presented each month to the best newspaper, magazine, television, or radio story (or series of stories) on our political system...
...With 28 million members, the American Association of Retired Persons has more members than the AFLCIO...
...The winner will be announced in the October issue...
...THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award David ShawLos: Angeles Tines With more than 300 bureaus and an audience of more than a billion, the Associated Press is the worlds largest news organization...
...The award for stories published or aired in May and June will be anniunced in the September issue Nominations for stories published or aired in Julywill close August 15...
...While AP won 16 Pulitzers between 1922- and, -1966, it has receive -,ale one since 1978...
...The subject can be government in its federal state, or municipal manifestation...

Vol. 20 • July 1988 • No. 6


 
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