MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD
The Washington Monthly JOURNALISM AWARD FOR MAY 1992 IS PRESENTED TO: Pat Collins, WRC TV The Montgomery County, Maryland, work crew punched in at 7 a.m. and headed straight for an...
...Hobart Rowan, The Washington Post When Post columnist Hobart Rowan was told by doctors at Georgetown University Hospital in March 1991 that he was suffering from an advanced case of bladder cancer, he followed their advice and immediiitely began intensive chemotherapy treatment...
...he all but excuses a series of blows at the moment that King surrenders...
...and headed straight for an hour-and-nineminute sit-down breakfast-on taxpayer time...
...The crews’ flouting of work rules was just one of a handful of abuses exposed in Collins’ five-part series, “Hardly Working,’’ focusing on public work teams in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia...
...Please send nominations to Monthly Journalism Award, 1611 Connecticut Ave...
...Five-and-a-half hours later, after stops at two mcre restaurants, a roadside break, and a leisurely drive around the county, the three-man crew had clocked just over cine hour of work...
...The winner will be announced in the December issue...
...Nominations for stories published or aired in September will close October 15...
...Nominations for any newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station in the country are welcome...
...The subject can be government in its federal, state, or municipal manifestation...
...But one needn’t agree with his conclusion to appreciate that the details of this trial were widely, even irresponsibly, caricatured by the media and that race may have been far less relevant in this case than previously thought...
...FOR JUNE 1992 IS PRESENTED TO: Roger Parloff, The American Lawyer In the June issue, Parloff reappraises the Rodney King verdict from a vantage point that few newspaper or television reports on the trial ever bothered to take: that of the jury...
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...The Washington Monthly JOURNALISM AWARD FOR MAY 1992 IS PRESENTED TO: Pat Collins, WRC TV The Montgomery County, Maryland, work crew punched in at 7 a.m...
...But as doctors at another hospital confirmed a few weeks later, he hali been misdiagnosed and was suffering instead from a rare form of prostrate cancer...
...20009...
...Although Collins’ May 10-14 series failed to pinpoint who was responsible for the sloppy management-which would have entailed sifting through the layers of supervisors and administrators paid to oversee worker performance-and did not take the time to actually interview the workers, the piece graphically brought to life a tried-and-true story of municipal waste...
...Rowan’s May 12 story documented that sloppy, sometimes callous, treatment will occur even at the nation’s finest hospitals and highlighted the importance of patient vigilance...
...Fortunately for Rowan, the hormone treatment he now receives for the cancer has been successful, but were it not for his aggressive action once he suspected a mistake, there’s no telling how long the mistreatment would have proceeded...
...WRC’s hidden cameras filmed work teams hanging out in parks, in front of liquor stores, or simply in their vehicles for hours on end...
...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...
...Parloff’s reading of the videotape at the center of the case is occasionally over-generous...
...My advice?’ he writes...
...After an exacting analysis of the trial evidence-including a blow-by-blow study of who hit King and why-Parloff concludes that Simi Valley’s now-notorious jurors produced a defensible verdict...
...Ask questions...
...Insist on explanations...
Vol. 24 • September 1992 • No. 9
