THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD
The Washington Monthly JOURNALISM AWARD FOR NOVEMBE1R99 0 IS PRESENTED TO: Jeannie Kever The San Antonio Light A year ago, Levi Strauss & Go. closed a plant in San Antonio to take advantage...
...the Palestinians were throwing at the police, not at worshippers...
...closed a plant in San Antonio to take advantage of lower labor costs in Costa Rica-to most sophisticates, just one more case of a company sensibly cashing in on the global economy...
...Cut loose in a sagging economy, many knowing no English or skills beyond sewing together “Dockers” pants, 1,115 workers turned to the state for help...
...Two copies of the article or broadcast text should accompany the nomination...
...The winner will be announced in the May issue...
...Up to $10 million will eventually be spent on them in welfare benefits and vocational training-but for what...
...Dozens of people, including three health workers, were hit, and 17 died...
...As of December, San Antonio’s dysfunctional retraining system hadn’t offered much in the way of new skills and had found jobs for only 14...
...The Washington Monthly JOURNALISM AWARD FOR NOVEMBE1R99 0 IS PRESENTED TO: Jeannie Kever The San Antonio Light A year ago, Levi Strauss & Go...
...In fact, as dramatic footage helps demonstrate, there were no worshippers at the wall when the stones were thrown...
...Please send nominations to Monthly Journalism Award, 1611 Connecticut Ave...
...NW, Washington, D.C...
...Kever, in a five-part series beginning November 11, pushed past the comforting macroeconomics to show the costs of the closing for the workers and for the city...
...and the police fired indiscriminately, shooting even at ambulances trying to reach the wounded...
...20009...
...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 police apparently attacked first, moving quickly from tear gas to rubber bullets to live ammunition...
...Nominations for stories published or aired in February will close March 15...
...FOR DECEMB1E9R90 IS PRESENTED TO: Mike Wallace “60 Minutes” In a segment that aired December 2, Wallace punched holes in the Israeli government’s version of the bloody events on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount last October 8. A special commission concluded, in the words of Deputy Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that “Moslem fanatics, the supporters of Saddam Hussein” attacked Jewish worshippers at the foot of the Wailing Wall with “thousands of rocks . . . hurtled from great height...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
...Sure, Dockers may be cheaper-but, this series inescapably asks, what are the other implications for American society as more and more relatively well-paying, semiskilled jobs vanish overseas...
Vol. 23 • March 1991 • No. 3
