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Cleveland Reporters Win 1997 Heywood Broun Award: Honor recognizes outstanding journalistic achievem
The Newspaper Guild-CWA has named the 1997 winner of its prestigious Heywood Broun award. Ted Wendling, Joan Mazzolini and Dave Davis, reporters for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, were selected for their series of articles exposing flaws in the nation's organ allocation and transplant system.
The Broun honor brings with it a $5,000 cash award to be presented to the reporting team, along with a citation for the Plain Dealer. The award will be presented at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington, D.C., on April 21.
Honorable mentions were Mary Fricker, Santa Rosa (Calif.) Press Democrat, for a series debunking claims of widespread workers' compensation fraud; Mario Rossilli and Josh Zimmer, Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger, for a series about the crisis in state funding for AIDS/HIV medicines; and Kevin Corcoran, The (Munster, Ind.) Times, for reporting on the mistreatment of mentally ill inmates in the state.
Chairperson for the 1997 award was Robert A. Steinke, former executive officer of the St. Louis Guild. Judges were Sharon Schmickle, assistant Washington, D.C. bureau chief, Minneapolis Star Tribune; former Broun award winner Don Barlett, Time; Leonard Sloane, retired financial columnist, New York Times; and Murray Seeger, retired reporter and editor, now with the Nieman Foundation.
The award recognizes outstanding journalistic achievement in the spirit of Heywood Broun, a founder of TNG, whose work reflected his concern for the underdog and the underprivileged. It was first awarded in 1941.
The Broun honor brings with it a $5,000 cash award to be presented to the reporting team, along with a citation for the Plain Dealer. The award will be presented at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington, D.C., on April 21.
Honorable mentions were Mary Fricker, Santa Rosa (Calif.) Press Democrat, for a series debunking claims of widespread workers' compensation fraud; Mario Rossilli and Josh Zimmer, Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger, for a series about the crisis in state funding for AIDS/HIV medicines; and Kevin Corcoran, The (Munster, Ind.) Times, for reporting on the mistreatment of mentally ill inmates in the state.
Chairperson for the 1997 award was Robert A. Steinke, former executive officer of the St. Louis Guild. Judges were Sharon Schmickle, assistant Washington, D.C. bureau chief, Minneapolis Star Tribune; former Broun award winner Don Barlett, Time; Leonard Sloane, retired financial columnist, New York Times; and Murray Seeger, retired reporter and editor, now with the Nieman Foundation.
The award recognizes outstanding journalistic achievement in the spirit of Heywood Broun, a founder of TNG, whose work reflected his concern for the underdog and the underprivileged. It was first awarded in 1941.