Monthly Journalism Award
The VVashington Monthlv Journalism Award MAY 1998 CAROLI NNERST “Teacher Training: More Show, Less Know” The Washington Times A tough examination of the inadequacies of teacher...
...Process - how to teach - is too often the victor over substance - what to teach, meaning a solidgrounding in the subject to be taught...
...Please send nominations (including two copies of the article or broadcast t&) to Monthly Journalism Award, 1611 Connecticut Ave...
...The VVashington Monthlv Journalism Award MAY 1998 CAROLI NNERST “Teacher Training: More Show, Less Know” The Washington Times A tough examination of the inadequacies of teacher training in America...
...Lunatic faddism - the current buzzword is “modelling”- is more important than determining whether the student actually has a knack for teaching...
...Why haven’t The Washington Post and The New York Times done this story...
...Gray has exceeded the $25,000 cap on campaign contributions almost every year since 1994...
...MAY 1998 GREG HITT PHIL KUNTZ AND “A Word in Trent Lott’s Ear” The Wall Street Journal In an incisive account of what is wrong with campaignfinance, Hitt and Kuntz dig through 144 major donors to Sen...
...Former Bush presidentialcounsel C. Boyden Gray, himselfa TVcritic of Democratic ethics, fitnneled $5,000 in donations through his own secretary...
...DAN KENNEDY “Get Me Rewrite” The Boston Phoenix The Boston Globe may haveforeign bureaus all across the country and overseas, but the desk that needs the most help is none other than the metro...
...Nominations for stories run in June and July are due August 3...
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...and an apparently disgruntledstafl The remedy, says Kennedy, is to focus on issues that really matter - education, civic lye, public safety...
...Trent Lott, including some borderline illegalpractices...
...CHARLEBS ABINGTON IRA CHOY AND “Government’s Games: Peddling Dreams” The Washington Post A shocking look at how involved government has gotten in the business ofpersuading its citizens - especially the poorest - to gamble...
...THEM ONTHLJYO URNALISM AWARDis presented each month to one or more newspaper, magazine, radio, or television stories (or series of stories) that demonstrate a commitment to the public interest...
...There are self-indulgent columnists...
...We are particularly interested in reporting that explains the successes and failures of government agencies at all levels and of other institutions such as the media, corporations, unions, and foundations that contribute to the existence or solution of public problems...
...lackluster, disorganized beat reporters...
Vol. 30 • July 1998 • No. 7
