By: Joe Strupp Government corruption and hurricane destruction were the stories that brought newspaper editors accolades Thursday night at the National Press Foundation's 23rd annual awards dinner in Washington, D.C.
Among the recipients of the group's excellence in journalism prizes were Ron Royhab, editor of The Blade of Toledo, Ohio, who received the Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award for his leadership of that paper's disclosure of state fiscal mismanagement in a rare coin investment scandal.
"The Blade was the first paper to report on the coin investment scandal that has mushroomed to become the largest political scandal in the nation and the largest in Ohio history," NPF officials said in a statement on the group's Web site. "Royhab also oversaw the investigative team that won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for its series about an elite fighting unit called Tiger Force that committed atrocities during the Vietnam War. "
The awards also honored several journalists who distinguished themselves in coverage of the deadly hurricanes that destroyed parts of the Gulf Coast. Noting it as a special tribute, NPF leaders gave their Chairman's Citation for Overall Excellence in Journalism to "Journalists of the Gulf Coast." Those cited specifically were; Jim Amoss, editor of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans; Stan Tiner, editor of the Sun-Herald in Biloxi, Miss.; Steve Cox, editor of The Mississippian in Pascagoula, Miss.; Tim Kelly, editor of The Enterprise in Beaumont, Tex.; and Dave Cohen of WWL-AM Radio in New Orleans.
Other winners included: Charles Osgood of CBS News, who won the Sol Taishoff Award for Broadcasting Excellence; retired columnist and author Jack Germond, who took the W.M. Kiplinger Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism; Ed Henry of CNN and Susan Milligan of The Boston Globe, who shared The Everett McKinley Dirksen Awards for Distinguished Coverage of Congress; Jimmy Margulies, editorial cartoonist of The Record of Hackensack, N.J., named the Berryman Cartoonist of the Year; and National Geographic Magazine Online, which has the foundation's award for Excellence in Online Journalism.
The awards were presented at the Hilton Washington Hotel during the annual dinner that included an estimated 1,000 guests.
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