MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD
THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award for March 1987 is presented to Lisa Myers and Stephanie Meagher NBC News. In a three-part "Special Segment" series, Myers and Meagher showed that...
...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
...Relying in part on a House Interior Committee investigation, the series showed that among the companies with the worst records was W.R...
...Maureen Dowd The New York Times In her article on Robert McFarlane's suicide attempt, Dowd shows how McFarlane's obsession with his job, typical of many in Washington, led to his depressed state, and how some of the rituals of White House politics exacerbated his problems...
...Nominations will.close July 15...
...Grace, headed by J. Peter Grace, the outspoken advocate of government cost-cutting...
...The award for stories published or aired...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
...Grace failed to pay millions in fees, left 140 mining sites abandoned and unrestored at a cost of $12,million to the federal government, and coerced mining firms into special subcontracting arrangements as a way of evading federal law...
...In a three-part "Special Segment" series, Myers and Meagher showed that large coal companies regularly break federal environmental laws by strip-mining and then failing to restore the land...
...in May and June will be announced in the September issue...
...Nominations should be accompanied by two copies of the story or stories...
...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...
Vol. 19 • June 1987 • No. 5
