| February 19, 2005
The Washington Post, The New York
Times win ASNE deadline reporting awards
By SIOBHAN McDONOUGH
Associated Press Writer
RESTON, Va. (AP) -- The Washington Post and The New York Times
were named Saturday by the American Society of Newspaper Editors
as winners of its awards for deadline news reporting in 2004.
The Jesse Laventhol Prize for deadline reporting by a team
was awarded to the Post for its coverage of the tsunami disaster
in South Asia. Michael Dobbs, Rama Lakshmi, John Lancaster,
Peter Goodman and Alan Sipress comprised the team praised
by judges for delivering "a stunning amount of information
(that) blended a sweeping narrative with clarity and economy
of expression."
Dexter Filkins of the Times was awarded the Laventhol prize
for deadline reporting by an individual for his coverage of
urban warfare in Fallujah, Iraq. The judges described Filkins'
stories as vivid, colorful and engaging to the reader.
The Jesse Laventhol prizes each carry a $10,000 cash award.
Other winners of ASNE awards, each carrying a $2,500 prize,
are
:
-- Babita Persaud of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, the
Freedom Forum/ASNE Award for Outstanding Writing on Diversity,
for her stories about arranged marriages in modern America.
-- M.J. Wilde of The Albuquerque (N.M.) Tribune, commentary/column
writing, for columns on baseball, bathing suits and bosom
buddies.
-- Helen O'Neill of The Associated Press, non-deadline writing,
for a story about the kidnapping of an 88-year-old grandmother
in a small town in Wisconsin
.
-- David Barham of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little
Rock, editorial writing, for editorials about highway deaths,
the South and Osama bin Laden.
-- Alana Baranick, of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, obituary
writing, for a "A Life Story" series of obituaries
on a church housekeeper, a rabbit farmer and a NASA scientist
who also taught African dance.
-- Carol Guzy of The Washington Post, community service journalism,
for photographs of a local high school student facing difficult
choices
.
The ASNE judges also recognized the work of other newspaper
journalists as finalists:
-- Deadline news reporting by a team: San Jose (Calif.) Mercury
News -- David Early, Scott Herhold, Patrick May, Howard Mintz,
Julie Patel, Jessie Seyfer, Julia Prodis Sulek and Kim Vo.
The Wall Street Journal -- Dennis K. Berman, Ellen Byron,
Justin Lahart, Amy Merrick, Michell Pacelle and Gregory Zuckerman
.
-- Deadline news reporting by an individual: Kim Murphy of
the Los Angeles Times and David Perlman of the San Francisco
Chronicle.
-- The Freedom Forum/ASNE Award for Outstanding Writing on
Diversity: Josh Peter of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans
and Adam Fifield of The Philadelphia Inquirer.
-- Commentary/column writing: Brian McGrory of The Boston
Globe, Rich Brooks of the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune and
Howard Troxler of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times.
-- Non-deadline writing: Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune; Meredith
May, San Francisco Chronicle.
-- Editorial writing: Mark Mahoney of The Post-Star, Glens
Falls, N.Y.
-- Obituary writing: Margalit Fox of The New York Times and
Adam Bernstein of The Washington Post.
-- Community service photojournalism: Robert Gauthier of the
Los Angeles Times and Manny Crisostomo of The Sacramento (Calif.)
Bee.
The awards will be presented April 14 during ASNE's convention
in Washington. The winning entries and interviews with the
winners and finalists will be published in "Best Newspaper
Writing 2005," by The Poynter Institute for Media Studies,
St. Petersburg, Fla.
This year's contest attracted more than 550 entries from news
organizations throughout the United States and Canada.
The Jesse Laventhol Prizes are named in honor of a longtime
Philadelphia newspaperman. They are endowed by his son, David
A. Laventhol, a former editor and executive for Times Mirror.
With about 750 members, ASNE is the principal organization
of American newspaper editors.
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American Society of Newspaper Editors: http://www.asne.org
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