JOURNALISM AWARD
THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD for November 1984 is presented to Newsweek In its special issue on the 1984 election, Newsweek offered some choice tidbits. For example, Walter Mondale...
...Nominations should be accompanied by two copies of the article or articles...
...Nominations from any newspaper or magazine in the country are welcome...
...The Monthly Journalism Award is presented each month to the best newspaper or magazine article (or series of articles) on our political system...
...explained to him before he adopted it as a hugely successful slogan, while Reagan figured out his snappy answer to the "age question"— that he would not make his opponent's "youth and inexperience" an issue—all by himself...
...Nominations will close February 15...
...For example, Walter Mondale had to have "Where's the Beef...
...and Matthew Kauffman New Jersey Reporter Kauffman's report on how New Jersey responded to guidelines from the EPA and pressure from parent groups to rid schools of asbestos presents some classic bureaucratic horror stories...
...Among them: during the last five days before the start of this school year, the state, which had inspected only 79 schools during the entire summer, found itself rushing through 192 visual inspections, even though the EPA finds visual inspection alone inadequate...
...More significantly, this election report communicated the flavor of the campaign through the kind of detailed reporting and thoughtful writing that one usually can get only in books written long after the election...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
...The award for articles published in January will be announced in the April issue...
Vol. 17 • February 1985 • No. 1
