It's nice when your colleagues do well.It's nice when your colleagues do well. It is especially nice when they do this well: NCEW NCEW National Conference of Editorial Writers member Rick Attig and former member Doug Bates Bates , Katherine Lee 1859-1929. American educator and writer best known for her poem "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 and revised in 1904 and 1911. , editorialists for The Oregonian, won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize Any of a series of annual prizes awarded by Columbia University for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music. Fellowships are also awarded. for "their persuasive, richly reported editorials on abuses inside a forgotten Oregon mental hospital." Also nominated as finalists in this category were: the Editorial Board of The Birmingham News in Alabama for its series of incisive editorials reversing the paper's long-held support of the death penalty, and B. Marie Harris, Tony Biffle, and Stan Tiner of The Sun Herald in Biloxi, Mississippi, for their passionate editorials in the wake of Hurricane Katrina that empathized with victims while pleading for relief from the outside world. It has been a productive year for Attig. Rick also was a finalist for the 2006 ASNE ASNE American Society of Newspaper Editors ASNE American Society of Naval Engineers ASNE Air and Space Natural Environment ASNE Association Sport Nature Education (France) Excellence in Writing Awards under the Editorial Writing category. |
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