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ASNE DISTINGUISHED WRITING AWARDS WINNERS
(1979-1997)
Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 1996 sports writing
Everett S. Allen, New Bedford (Mass.) Standard-Times, 1979, commentary
Henry Allen, Washington Post, 1992 commentary/column writing
Tom Archdeacon, Miami News, 1982 sports writing
Richard Aregood, Philadelphia Daily News, 1993, 1991 and 1985
editorial writing
Dave Barry, Miami Herald, 1987 commentary
Joan Beck, Chicago Tribune, 1994 commentary/column writing
William Blundell, Wall Street Journal, 1982 non-deadline writing
Jonathan Bor, Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard, 1985 deadline writing
Thomas Boswell, Washington Post, 1981 sports writing
Rick Bragg, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, 1991 non-deadline writing
Rick Bragg, New York Times, 1996 non-deadline writing
Jimmy Breslin, New York Daily News, 1988 commentary/column writing
Donna Britt, Washington Post, 1994 commentary/column writing
John Camp, St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch, 1986 non-deadline writing
Gerald M. Carbone, Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin, 1995
non-deadline writing
Terrie Claflin, Medford (Ore.) Mail Tribune, 1990 non-deadline writing
Francis X. Clines, New York Times, 1989 deadline writing
Mary Ellen Corbett, Ft. Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel, 1979 features
Richard Ben Cramer, Philadelphia Inquirer, 1979 news/deadline writing
Mark Davis, Tampa (Fla.) Tribune, 1989 state and local government
writing
Brian Dickinson, Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin, 1995
commentary/column writing
Orland Dodson, Shreveport (La.) Times, 1983 business writing
Jim Dwyer, New York Newsday, 1991 commentary/column writing
Diana Griego Erwin, Santa Ana (Calif.) Orange County Register, 1990
commentary/column writing
Russell E. Eshleman Jr., Harrisburg bureau, Philadelphia Inquirer,
1992 short news writing
John Fensterwald, Concord (N.H.) Monitor, 1992 editorial writing
Mark Fineman, Los Angeles Times, 1987 deadline writing
David Finkel, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, 1986 non-deadline writing
Samuel T. Francis, Washington Times, 1990 editorial writing and 1989
editorial writing
Jonathan Freedman, San Diego Tribune, 1986 editorial writing
Michael Gartner, Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune, 1994 editorial writing
Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe, 1980 commentary
Cynthia Gorney, Washington Post, 1980 features
Bradley Graham, Washington Post, 1986 deadline writing
Paul Greenberg, Pine Bluff (Ark.) Commercial, 1981 commentary
Tom Hallman Jr., The Oregonian, Portland, 1997 non-deadline writing
Blaine Harden, Washington Post, 1988 non-deadline writing
Daniel P. Henninger, Wall Street Journal, 1996 editorial writing
Bob Herbert, New York Daily News, 1988 deadline writing
Anne Hull, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, 1994 non-deadline writing
Michael Jennings, Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, 1993 non-deadline
writing
Rheta Grimsley Johnson, Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial Appeal, 1983
commentary
Murray Kempton, Newsday, 1985 commentary
James Kindall, Kansas City Star, 1984 non-deadline writing
Peter H. King, Los Angeles Times, 1996 commentary/column writing
Charles Klaveness, New York Times, 1993 headline writing
James Klurfeld, Newsday, 1988 editorial writing
James Lileks, St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch, 1989 non-deadline
writing
Theo Lippman Jr., Baltimore Sun, 1982 commentary
Don Marsh, Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette, 1987 commentary
Carol McCabe, Providence (R.I.) Sunday Journal, 1980 news writing
Eileen McNamara, The Boston Globe, 1997 commentary/column writing
Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, 1987 deadline writing
G. Wayne Miller, Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin, 1992 non-deadline
writing
Paul Moran, Newsday, 1991 deadline writing
Linnet Myers, Chicago Tribune, 1990 state and local government
reporting
Colin Nickerson, Boston Globe, 1992 deadline writing
Jim Nicholson, Philadelphia Daily News, 1987 obituary writing
Tom Oliphant, Boston Sunday Globe, 1979 news/non-deadline writing
Saul Pett, Associated Press, 1981 non-deadline writing
Thomas Plate, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 1981 deadline writing
Dorothy Rabinowitz, Wall Street Journal, 1993 commentary/column
writing
David J. Remnick, Washington Post, 1989 deadline writing
Peter Rinearson, Seattle Times, 1984 business writing
Carl Schoettler, Baltimore Evening Sun, 1988 obituary writing
Tom Shales, Washington Post, 1988 obituary writing
Roger Simon, Chicago Sun-Times, 1984 commentary, and Baltimore Sun,
1986 commentary
Michael Skube, Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer, 1989 commentary
Patrick Sloyan, Newsday, 1982 deadline writing
Sam Stanton, Sacramento (Calif.) Bee, 1993 deadline writing
Julie Sullivan, Spokesman-Review and Spokane Chronicle, 1991 short
news writing
Greta Tilley, Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record, 1983 non-deadline
writing and 1985 non-deadline writing
Susan Trausch, Boston Globe, 1995 editorial writing
Steve Twomey, Philadelphia Inquirer, 1987non-deadline writing
George S. Vecsey, New York Times, 1995 sportswriting
David Von Drehle, Miami Herald, 1990 deadline writing
David A. Waters, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn., 1997 religion
and spirituality writing
Ken Wells, Wall Street Journal, 1994 headline writing
N. Don Wycliff, Chicago Tribune, 1997 editorial writing
Richard Zahler, Seattle Times, 1981 deadline writing
David Zucchino, Philadelphia Inquirer, 1984 deadline writing
JESSE LAVENTHOL PRIZES
(1995-1997)
Mark Fritz, Associated Press, 1995 individual deadline news reporting
Barton Gellman, The Washington Post, 1996 individual deadline news
reporting
David Maraniss, The Washington Post, 1997 individual deadline news
reporting
Miami Herald, 1996 team deadline news reporting
Newsday, 1997 team deadline news reporting
New York Newsday, 1995 team deadline news reporting
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Craig Branson
Publications Director
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Reston, Virginia, USA
703/648-1147 (Fax: 703/476-6125)
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