Newsletter & Electronic Publishers Foundation's 26th annual Journalism Awards go to 43 winners from 26 companies.In an era when the mass media are being castigated for plagiarism Using ideas, plots, text and other intellectual property developed by someone else while claiming it is your original work. , sloppy reporting, buckling under government pressure, and watering down journalism to make it more entertaining, this year's winners of NEPF's Journalism Awards demonstrate the effectiveness and social value of newsletter and specialized-information journalism. Articles appearing in the industry's publications during this last year uncovered corporate and government malfeasance; explained complicated regulations, oil-price fluctuations, and health matters; analyzed market trends; and unearthed Unearthed is the name of a Triple J project to find and "dig up" (hence the name) hidden talent in regional Australia. Unearthed has had three incarnations - they first visited each region of Australia where Triple J had a transmitter - 41 regions in all. massive fraud. UCG UCG United Church of God UCG Underground Coal Gasification UCG University College Galway UCG Unified Communications Group (Microsoft) UCG Universal Command Guide for Operating Systems (Guy Lotgering book) continued its streak of winning awards every year and also topped the list by winning the most awards this year, nine. Dressed on the Mayflower Mayflower, ship Mayflower, ship that in 1620 brought the Pilgrims from England to New England. She set out from Southampton in company with the Speedwell, ballroom stage in formal attire, Nancy McMeekin and Dan Brown presented the awards with a delicate balance parodying the Academy Awards (complete with a drum roll preceding each name) and a serious respect for the hard research and reporting work done by the winners. Here are they are, with brief descriptions of the 1st Place winners, who receive the David Swit Memorial Award of $500. * Best Spot-News or Exclusive Single News Story 1st Place: Green Markets, Pike & Fischer, a BNA BNA Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. BNA Birds of North America BNA block numbering area (US Census) BNA British North America BNA Banco Nacional de Angola (National Bank of Angola) Company. Steve Seay, editorial director of Green Markets, was the first journalist to report that Terra Industries Inc. was attempting to buy the major assets of Mississippi Chemical Corp. He got the information from the fine print in lengthy financial documents filed in the Mississippi Chemical Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Green Markets ran the information more than two months before the companies publicly acknowledged the pending deal. 2nd Place: Report on Medicare Compliance, Atlantic Information Services See Information Systems. Inc., Nina Youngstrom, managing editor. 3rd Place: HR.BLR BLR Belarus BLR Business & Legal Reports BLR Boiler BLR Broad-Line Region BLR Base Lending Rate BLR Binary Language Representation BLR Bintan Lagoon Resort (Indonesia) BLR Bangalore, India - Hindustan .com, Business & Legal Reports Inc. Susan Prince, managing editor--human resources. Honorable Mention: Insurance Compliance Week, UCG, Alan Prochorof, editor. Honorable Mention: Jane's Defence Weekly
Honorable Mention: Mealey's Litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. Report: Fen-Phen/Redux, LexisNexis Mealeys Group, Michael Lefkowitz, editor. * Best Single-Topic Newsletter 1st Place: Retail Fuel Watch, UCG. Publisher Fred Rozell produced a 144-page special report, "Market Mayhem," which explained the turmoil in the markets for gasoline and diesel fuel throughout 2003, the most volatile 12 months in the history of petroleum markets. Seven reporters produced the study which included a detailed analysis of more than 29 million prices logged over the course of the year. 2nd Place: SC Insider C-45 Report, Bongarde Media Co., Glenn Demby, editor 3rd Place: Real Estate Finance & Investment, Euromoney Institutional Investor, Samantha Rowan, managing editor. Honorable Mention: Canadian Health Care Management, MPL Communications. Honorable Mention: New Urban News, New Urban Publications Inc., Robert Steuteville, editor and publisher. Honorable Mention: The Senior Care Acquisition Report, Irving Levin Associates, Eleanor Meredith, publisher. * Best Instructional Reporting 1st Place American Speaker, Briefings Publishing Group, Douglas Publications LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . Aram Bakshian Jr., editor, and Deirdre Hackett, executive editor, provided a continuous, comprehensive speaking guide, offering presentation advice to business executives. The material in the publication is solid, helpful and entertaining, covering such topics as preparing a speech, overcoming pre-speech jitters jitters 'Butterflies' Psychology An episode of nervousness or anxiety that often precedes a public event; jitters is a type of performance anxiety which may affect actors in a stage production–stage fright or soloist musicians; it may respond to anxiolytics , using body language to your best advantage, avoiding technical problems, tactful use of humor, handling questions and answers, and ending the speech with a bang. Each issue also contains editor Bakshian's penetrating analysis of a different speech. 2nd Place: Harvard Men's Health Watch, Harvard Health Publications, Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a prestigious American medical school located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. , Dr. Harvey Simon, editor, and Ed Coburn, publishing director. 3rd Place The Business Owner, D.L. Perkins LLC., David Perkins, editor. Honorable Mention: ED Management, Thomson American Health Consultants, Steve Lewis and Joy Dickinson, editors. Honorable Mention: Healthcare & You, Information Strategies Inc., Donald Mazzella, editorial director. Honorable Mention: Manager's Edge, Briefings Publishing Group, Douglas Publications LLC, Barbara Clark, editor, and Deirdre Hackett, executive editor. * Best Looseleaf Publication 1st Place (tie): Anesthesia Answer Book, UCG; Coding Answer Book (A-L) & Coding Answer Book (J-Z), UCG; and Fraud & Abuse Answer Book (A-I A-I General Audiences (Catholic movie rating) ) & Fraud & Abuse Answer Book (J-Z), UCG. Laura Evans and Wendy Vogenitz of Anesthesia Answer Book, Nancy McGuire and Jill Gardner of Coding Answer Book, and David Grant, Julia Kyles and Holly Snell of Fraud & Abuse Answer Book won for their work on three looseleafs that are nearly identical in their makeup and comprehensiveness, covering three crucially important areas of healthcare administration. 2nd Place: The Hard Copy Observer, Lyra Research Inc. 3rd Place: Fraud and Abuse Certification Test, UCG, David Grant, Julie Kyles and Holly Snell, staff reporters. Honorable Mention (tie): BioWorld--Biotechnology State of the Industry Report, Thomson BioWorld; and Medical Device Daily--State of the Industry Report, Thomson BioWorld. Honorable Mention (tie): The Health Care Services Acquisition Record, Irving Levin Associates; and The Medical Technology Acquisition Record, Irving Levin Associates, Eleanor Meredith, publisher of both services. * Best Interpretive or Analytical Reporting 1st Place: Entertainment Marketing Letter, EPM EPM equine protozoal myeloencephalitis. Communications. Executive editor Susan Nunziata won for an article titled "Weighing The Hits, '78 vs '03: Blockbusters Bring In More Bucks, Fewer Folks." She analyzed what a hit was in various media in 1978 vs. 2003, looking at dollar value (adjusted for inflation) and tickets sold, viewers, listeners, etc. Her analysis showed that the medium, thought to be suffering most because of short attention spans and fragmented audience-attention books, saw the only astronomical growth over the period largely due to the immense popularity of J.K. Rawling's Harry Potter series. 2nd Place (tie): Regulatory Risk Monitor, UCG, Fran Fanshel, associate publisher, and Home Health Line, UCG, Jason Huffman and Marci Heydt, reporters. 3rd Place: Cardiovascular Device Update, Thomson BioWorld, Jeffrey Berg, contributing editor. Honorable Mention: Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology psychopharmacology (sī'kōfär'məkŏl`əjē), in its broadest sense, the study of all pharmacological agents that affect mental and emotional functions. , Manisses Communications Group, Karienne Stovell, executive editor. Honorable Mention: Communications Daily, Warren Communications News, Susan Polyakova, Dinesh Kumar and Herb Kirchhoff, reporters. * Best Financial-Advisory Newsletter 1st Place: Personal Finance, Newsletter Holdings/KCI Communications. 2nd Place: The Investment Reporter, MPL Communications. Third Place: Forecasts & Strategies, Eagle Publishing. Honorable Mention: The Complete Investor, TCI (Trustworthy Computing Initiative) An umbrella term from Microsoft for its efforts to improve security in Windows. TCI was announced in 2002 after viruses such as Code Red and Nimda had succeeded in attacking numerous Windows computers. Enterprises LLC. Honorable Mention: The FundLetter, MPL Communications Inc. Honorable Mention: Richard E. Band's Profitable Investing, Phillips Investment Resources. * Best Investigative Reporting 1st Place: Telecom Manager's Voice Report, UCG. Publisher Jonathan Stern won the David Swit Award for his story in February 2004 concerning a massive fraud telecom giant Nortel used to prop up its stock price and hold on to customers lured by a rival's new technology. The story, in conjunction with actions by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, resulted in Nortel's firing its CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , CFO See Chief Financial Officer. and controller; launching an audit committee probe of its management practices; restating several years of financial results; and coming under investigation by Canada's Ontario Securities Commission The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) is a regulatory agency which administers and enforces securities legislation in the Canadian province of Ontario. The OSC is an Ontario Crown corporation which reports to the Ontario legislature through the Minister of Finance. . 2nd Place: Jane's Defence Weekly, Jane's Information Group/Defence Weekly, Joseph Bermudez, reporter. 3rd Place: The Energy Daily, King Publishing, Jeff Beattie and George Lobsenz, reporters. Honorable Mention: The Dark Report, The Dark Group, Robert Michel, editor-in-chief. |
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