MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD

...The washington Monthly wishes to recognize the writers and publishers who share our purpose of trying to describe hour the political system really works, to determine why it succeeds, and why it fails, and to suggest ways in which it might be improved...

...The subjest can be government in its federal state, or municipal manifestation...

...Nominations should be accompanied by two copies of the article or articles...

...Nominations from any newspaper or magazine in the country are welcome...

...Claire O'Connor, Wilkes Barre (Pa...

...Nominations will close October 15...

...Times Leader O'Connor explains in a six-part series, what happened when a group of well intentioned but inexperienced people tred to build a multi-million-dollar server system for their community...

...The award for articles published in September will be announced in the December issue...

...THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award for July 1982 is awarded to Carol J. Loomis, Fortune In "The Madness of Executive Compensation" (July 12), Loomis carefully details how salary increases and huge bonuses for corporate executives bear no relationship to performance: Michael R. Gordon, National Journal In the July 24 issue, Gordon provides evidence of madequate and biased testing and evaluation of multi-billion-dollar Pentagon weapons such as the Perstuing It missile, the Patriot anti-aircraft missile, the AMRAAM air-to-air missile, and the Aegis cruiser...

...The Monthly Journalism Awards is presented each month to the best newspapers or magazine article for series of articles on our political systems...