MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD
The Washington Monthly JOURNALISM AWARD FOR FEBRUARY 1991 IS PRESENTED TO John Matisonn National Public Radio In a wide-ranging inquiry broadcast from January 3 1 to February 4, South...
...Americans are confused and disheartened...
...Two copies of the article or broadcast text should accompany the nomination...
...Please send nominations to Monthly Joumalism Award, 1611 Connecticut Ave...
...The Washington Monthly JOURNALISM AWARD FOR FEBRUARY 1991 IS PRESENTED TO John Matisonn National Public Radio In a wide-ranging inquiry broadcast from January 3 1 to February 4, South Africa-based reporter John Matisonn crossed the Atlantic to face America’s “uncomfortable parallels...
...The winner will be announced in the July/August issue...
...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
...Matisonn wisely doesn’t proffer facile explanations or solutions to America’s complex “race problem...
...Yet what Matisonn finds most disturbing is not a similarity but a difference: South Africans are full of hope about the future of race relations...
...But he does suggest that the lack of public goals, or even a public dialogue, breeds a numbing hopelessness...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
...Nominations for stories published or aired in April will close May 15...
...Economic development happens in the white suburbs, leaving blacks behind in the inner city...
...NW, Washington, D.C...
...Liberal white professionals in Minneapolis, like their counterparts in South Africa, believe they are color-blind but feel vaguely uncomfortable around blacks...
...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...
...Housing in Chicago is as segregated as that in Johannesburg...
Vol. 23 • May 1991 • No. 5
