MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD
The Washington Monthly JOURNALISM AWARD FOR JANUARY 1992 IS PRESENTED TO: Lisa Getter The Miami Herald If 27 firms bid to manage a $55-million airport bond issue, you’d figure only the...
...Steven Waldman Newsweek See Tilting at Windmills, page 8. 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...
...Not in Dade County, Florida...
...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...
...But Harper S publisher MacArthur, writing for the op-ed page on January 6, revealed that the testimony of the girl, who just happened to be the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S., was engineered by the public relations firm Hill and Knowlton with the help of Reps...
...Tom Lantos and John Edward Porter...
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...In it’s a system-perfectly legal-that allows politi to have the final say in who wins lucrative con And sure enough, the politicians charged with making the selections have been reaping huge campaign contributions from the eventual winners...
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...Nominations for stories published or aired in April will close May 15...
...Underwriters with “political ties,” she writes, “are far more likely to earn large fees in bond deals than firms that are not connected...
...The winner will be announced in the July/August issue...
...Evidence now suggests that the atrocity never happened-good to know, but a little too late for the Iraqis...
...TWO copies of the article or broadcast text should accompany the nomination...
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...Eight bidders were selected in 1990 to manage the municipal bond, but in addition to firms ranked first and fifth, the Ilth, 13th, 20th, 24th, 26th, and 27th were all cut in...
...The Washington Monthly JOURNALISM AWARD FOR JANUARY 1992 IS PRESENTED TO: Lisa Getter The Miami Herald If 27 firms bid to manage a $55-million airport bond issue, you’d figure only the top-ranked bidders would get the nod...
...This is not a bureaucratic accident, Getter writes in her January 19-21 series, “Political Bonds: The Cost of Money...
...John MacArthur The New York Emes The tearful congressional testimony of a young Kuwaiti about Iraqi soldiers indiscriminately removing Kuwaiti infants from incubators provided some of the most powerful evidence of Saddam’s human rights violations on the eve of the Gulf war...
Vol. 24 • April 1992 • No. 4
