MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD
THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award ,1,11••• for May 1986 is presented to Peter G. Gosselin The Boston Globe Ina three-part series, Gosselin describes how First Commodity Corp—one of...
...Gosselin also shows how the Commodities...
...Futures Trading Commission has failed in four attempts to revoke the firm's license...
...THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award ,1,11••• for May 1986 is presented to Peter G. Gosselin The Boston Globe Ina three-part series, Gosselin describes how First Commodity Corp—one of the nation's largest retail brokers of commodities futures— cons unsophisticated investors into losing what often amounts to their life-savings on speculative trading that generates millions in profit for the firm...
...In showing how and why the industry is so profitable, Ricks is better able to explain why the price of cocaine has dropped and its supply increased, even though law enforcement spending and drug seizures have jumped...
...The award for stories published or aired in July will be announced in the October issue...
...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...
...Nominations should be accompanied by two copies of the story or stories...
...Nominations will close September 15...
...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
...Street Journal In a feature titled "The Cocaine Business: Big Risks and Profits, High Labor Turnover," Ricks analyzes the drug trade as an industry rather than merely as criminal pathology...
...for June 1986 is presented to Thomas E. Ricks The Wall...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
Vol. 18 • September 1986 • No. 8
