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08/30/06
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Associated Press names 9 winners of Gramling Award for excellence
NEW YORK -- The Associated Press has
named nine people from its editorial, technical and administrative
staff from around the world as winners of its 2006 Gramling
Awards for excellence.
The honorees include a video journalist who established a
new bureau in North Korea, a department head whose team takes
the lead in using research in everything from urgent breaking
news to long-term investigative work, and editors who expanded
AP's medical and science offerings and created a service targeted
at the under-35 generation of readers.
"This eclectic group of winners shares in common an unselfish
desire to go above and beyond the call of duty on a daily
basis to push AP to a higher level of performance, no matter
what field they are in or where in the world they're located,"
said AP President and CEO Tom Curley.
The Oliver S. Gramling Awards, now in their 13th year, are
given annually to staff members whose work and initiative
contribute significantly to the news report and to overall
AP operations.
The awards are named for the AP newsman and executive who
in 1941 developed AP's first radio wire. Gramling bequeathed
his estate to AP when he died in 1992, directing that it be
used for AP staff members nominated for excellence by their
colleagues. A committee of AP bureau and department managers
selected the winners.
This year's winners:
-- Gramling Journalism Awards ($10,000 each): Kit Frieden,
health and science editor, who has worked tirelessly to assemble
and direct a much expanded, first-rate team of medical and
science reporters whose stories on health, fitness, diet and
science are now some of AP's most popular content; Rafael
Wober, AP Television News video journalist, who organized
the opening of the first Western bureau in North Korea.
-- Gramling Achievement Awards ($10,000 each): Ted Anthony,
asap editor, who was honored for his ground-breaking work
as the founding editor of an evolving way of journalism that
not only targets the vital 18-to-34 demographic, but also
has helped change the way journalists in all corners of the
AP think about how to report news and tell stories; Lynn Dombek,
director of the News Research Center, who has made her team
of researchers an integral part of AP journalism across all
platforms and departments.
-- Gramling Spirit Awards ($3,000 each): Washington-based
photographer J. Scott Applewhite for, among other things,
his advocacy of press freedom through his work with the Reporters
Committee for Freedom of the Press and the Senate Press Photographers
Gallery; Howard Gros, Services & Technology south regional
director, who endured personal losses while working night
and day to provide support to staffers covering Hurricane
Katrina; Mexico City-based Eloy Aguilar, regional administrator
for Mexico/Central America, for training and mentoring a generation
of journalists inside and outside the AP; and Clarence Roy-Macaulay,
Sierra Leone correspondent, who through two decades as a journalist
with the AP has passionately chronicled the ups and downs
of his West African homeland, from brutal conflict through
fledgling democracy.
-- Gramling Scholarship Award ($3,000): Atlanta-based medical
writer Michael Stobbe, whose doctoral program classwork at
the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health
has allowed him to produce enterprise reports containing more
legal and historical context.
Founded in 1846, The Associated Press is the world's oldest
and largest newsgathering organization, providing content
to more than 15,000 news outlets with a daily reach of 1 billion
people around the world. Its multimedia services are distributed
by satellite and the Internet to more than 120 nations.
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