MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD

THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award for April 1987 is presented to Patricia Edmonds Detroit Free Press In her analysis of Coleman Young's management style, Edmonds shows how...

...THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award for April 1987 is presented to Patricia Edmonds Detroit Free Press In her analysis of Coleman Young's management style, Edmonds shows how the Detroit mayor has become more and more insulated from reality with each passing term (he's now in his fourth...
...The award for stories published or aired in May and June will be announced in the September issue...
...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
...Young's kitchen cabinet, once made up of community leaders from outside government, is.now dominated by embedded officials who avoid dissent to protect turf...
...Susceptible to flattery and disdainful of criticism, the mayor has conditioned his staff to fear bringing him bad news: 300 tons of surplus federal food, meant for Detroit's poor, rotted in government warehouses in 1983 before Young even knew there was a spoilage problem...
...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...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
...Nominations will close July 15...

Vol. 19 • July 1987 • No. 6


 
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