THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award
THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award for August 1989 is presented to Steven Brill The American Lawyer Brill tracked a young assistant district attorney through the Manhattan court system for...
...NW, Washington, D.C...
...He concludes that in the middle of a widely proclaimed urban crisis, we run our law enforcement system "like a third-rate motor vehicles bureau...
...20009...
...The winner will be announced in the January issue...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
...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...
...He calls for putting the courts on a "war footing": tougher sentencing, a public service draft for all law school graduates, and spending to match the crisis rhetoric...
...THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award for August 1989 is presented to Steven Brill The American Lawyer Brill tracked a young assistant district attorney through the Manhattan court system for several months...
...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
...Please send nominations to Monthly Journalism Award, 1611 Connecticut Ave...
...The award for stories published or aired in September will be announced in the December issue...
...Brill follows a series of straightforward cases made interminable by lazy judges and absentee lawyers procrastinating their way through abbreviated workdays...
...The result is a detailed narrative that makes the legal culture's bizarre rules intelligible and its frustrations palpable...
...Two copies of the article or broadcast text should accompany the nomination...
...Nominations for stories published or aired in October will close November 15...
Vol. 21 • November 1989 • No. 10
