By: (AP) Boston Globe editor Martin Baron is the editor of the year, according to the National Press Foundation's annual awards, announced today.
Other prominent winners include New Yorker writer Seymour Hersh and NBC's "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert. Hersh, who is credited with uncovering the Abu Ghraib prison scandal last spring, received the W.M. Kiplinger Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism, and Russert was honored for broadcasting excellence.
Also winning awards, among the top honors in journalism, are Julie Rovner of National Public Radio and Paul Kane of Roll Call. They won The Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress.
John Sherffius, a self-syndicated artist, was designated cartoonist of the year. CNN.com was honored for excellence in online journalism, and Al Fitzpatrick, a retired editor at Gannett Newspapers, won the Chairman's Citation for Overall Excellence in Journalism.
Hersh, being honored for his entire body of work, has gained a reputation for tough, investigative reporting culminating in several books and articles for The New Yorker since 1992. He also wrote for The New York Times and The Associated Press. Hersh was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for uncovering the My Lai massacre in the Vietnam War.
The awards will be presented on Feb. 17 at a black-tie fund-raising dinner in Washington.
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