MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD
The Washington Monthly JOURNALISM AWARD FOR FEBRUARY1 992 IS PRESENTED TO: Charles E. Shepard The Washington Post True, Shepard’s investigation of the United Way of America eventually...
...But Franz and Waas finger a different culprit, one with a far less ambiguous motive...
...Please send nominations to Monthly Journalism Award, 1611 Connecticut Ave...
...Shepard’s exposure of Aramony’s $20,000-a-year limousine tab, trips to Europe aboard the Concorde, and his United Way-funded New York condo has sounded the alarm for other large charities-organizations where oversight by lax and detached directors could easily permit similar types of abuse...
...Douglas Franz and Murray Waas Los Angeles Times It was one of many mysteries haunting the Gulf war: Why did the United States channel billions of dollars worth of food and high-tech equipment to Iraq in the late eighties even though Saddam’s genocidal and totalitarian tendencies were known to key U.S...
...During the war, officials at Commerce and Agriculture were the principal scapegoats, and bureaucratic bungling the leading explanation...
...The Washington Monthly JOURNALISM AWARD FOR FEBRUARY1 992 IS PRESENTED TO: Charles E. Shepard The Washington Post True, Shepard’s investigation of the United Way of America eventually prompted the resignation of executive director William Aramony, but the fallout has gone well beyond the removal of the man at the top...
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...Bush was perfectly willing to appease the Iraqi leader, the authors argue, in order to keep Iran from dominating the Middle East...
...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
...The winner will be announced in the September issue...
...Nominations for stories published or aired in May will close June 15...
...Their three-part series, which began February 23, documents convincingly that George Bush himself, as both vice president and president, overrode the objections of numerous government officials to keep the money flowing to Saddam...
...Two copies of the article or broadcast text should accompany the nomination...
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...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 subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
Vol. 24 • May 1992 • No. 5
