MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD
THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award for December 1989 is presented to: David Schrieburg and Miranda Ewell San Jose Mercury News For thousands of defendants in the California system, due...
...The committee's mass mailings grotesquely exaggerate threats to Social Security benefits, terrorizing elderly Americans into sending in money —more than $38 million last year...
...Andrea Mitchell NBC News In a two part series for NBC's "Capitol Watch," Mitchell exposed for a national audience a lobbying scam that is familiar to Beltw4y insiders: the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare...
...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...
...In this meticulous threepart series, Schrieburg and Ewell showed that the state's frequently untrained and unethical interpreters— often the only links between defendants and their judges and jurors—distort, omit, and invent testimony...
...THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award for December 1989 is presented to: David Schrieburg and Miranda Ewell San Jose Mercury News For thousands of defendants in the California system, due process is a sham...
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...Mitchell showed that most of that money pays for mailings to solicit more funds and for fat salaries, luxurious offices, and lavish expense accounts for the committee's president and appointed board of directors...
...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
...NW, Washington, D.C...
...Two copies of the article or broadcast text should accompany the nomination...
...The award for stories published or aired in January will be announced in the April issue...
...Witnesses's accounts are mangled, and defendants can be convicted or released without having understood the questions put to them and without having conveyed their version of the truth...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
...Please send nominations to Monthly Journalism Award, 1611 Connecticut Ave...
...Nominations for stories published or aired in February will close March 15...
...The winner will be announced in the May issue...
Vol. 22 • March 1990 • No. 2
