The Washington Monthly: JOURNALISM AWARD
Yeoman, Barry
The Washington Monthly: JOURNALISM AWARD FOR AUGUST 1991 IS PRESENTED TO Barry Yeoman North Carolina Independent Newspaper coverage of state budget wrangling often reads like so much fun...
...Yet, as Yeoman shows, residents here know enough not to expect much from the annual distribution of spoils...
...IILro copies of the article or broadcast text should accompany the nomination...
...Instead of scribbling in the comdors of the Capitol, he viewed the budget process from the grimmer vantage of North Carolina’s Duplin County, where the depressed tobacco and textile industries have driven per capita income down to $6,072...
...Which is why Yeoman’s “Letter from Duplin County,” in the August 21 issue, is such a sobering piece of work...
...20009...
...Every year, state legislators sacrifice the small, politically impotent county -its drug treatment programs, its roads, its schools-to satisfy the more persuasive pleas of generous lobbyists and the affluent Research Triangle...
...More than quiet bribes or raucous scandals, Yeoman convinces us, state government’s real corruption is a fundamental power imbalance that ensures that America’s Duplin Counties will continue to be invisible and ignored...
...The winner will be announced in the JanuaryEebruary issue...
...The Monthly Journalism Award is presented each month to the best newspaper, magazine, television, or radio story (or series of stones) on our political system...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal rnanifestation...
...Nominations for stones published or aired in October will close November 15...
...NW, Washington, D.C...
...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 Washington Monthly: JOURNALISM AWARD FOR AUGUST 1991 IS PRESENTED TO Barry Yeoman North Carolina Independent Newspaper coverage of state budget wrangling often reads like so much fun and games: choleric activists, senatorial soundbites, lively lobbying, the high-drama vote...
Vol. 23 • November 1991 • No. 11
