JOURNALISM AWARD
THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD for September 1982 is presented to Timothy Egan The Seattle Post-Intelligencer This story investigates the oft-overlooked world of banking to reveal how...
...Nominations from any newspaper or magazine in the country arc welcome...
...Loretta Tofani The Washington Post This remarkable series documents the epidemic of homosexual rape in the Prince Georges County Jail in Maryland...
...Tofani shows how official negligence and a policy of locking up violent offenders together with non-violent ones makes modern-day prison life far more horrifying than most imagine...
...The Washington Monthly wiShes to recognize the writers and publishers who share our purpose of trying to describe how the political system works, to determine why it sticeeds, and why it fails, and to suggest ways in which it might be improved...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
...Nominations should be accompanied by two copies of the article or articles...
...The award for articles published in November will be announced in the February issue...
...THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD for September 1982 is presented to Timothy Egan The Seattle Post-Intelligencer This story investigates the oft-overlooked world of banking to reveal how the trust department of a leading Seatle bank sold its client's property at a fraction of its apparent value, without his knowledge, and in an apparent-effort to prevent a rival bank from obtaining it...
...Nominations will close December 15...
...The Monthly Journalism Award is presented each month to the best newspaper or magazine article for series of articles) on our political system...
Vol. 14 • December 1982 • No. 10
