Newsletter & Electronic Publishers Foundation honors 33 for excellence in newsletter journalism--now called the David Swit Journalism Awards.The number of entries in the 21st annual NEPF journalism competition was about the same as last year, 225, but the number of winners increased by about a third. Jim Marshall Jim Marshall is the name of:
At a luncheon honoring the winners during the recent NEPA conference in Washington, D.C., Marshall said, "We awarded more honorable mentions in order to recognize some truly great newsletter journalism." 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) was singled out as the winningest company in the history of the competition. It has received a total of 63 awards, eight of them this year. Last December, just two weeks before he died, the Foundation voted to rename its annual awards the David Swit Journalism Awards, to honor the past president, generous benefactor, and member of both the Newsletter Publishers Hall of Fame and the Foundation's Hall of Fame. Also for the first time, firstplace winners received cash prizes of $500. Three winners were major stories published weeks before the mainstream media picked up on them: * Communications Daily's story about Sen. John McCain For McCain's grandfather and father, see John S. McCain, Sr. and John S. McCain, Jr., respectively John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936 in Panama Canal Zone) is an American politician, war veteran, and currently the Republican Senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. and his lobbying for a decision before the FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. that affected one of his contributors--published three weeks before the national dailies reported it. * Inside the Pentagon's exclusive investigative piece "that quickly became a bombshell in the mainstream media on behind-the-scenes advice that a top NATO NATO: see North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO in full North Atlantic Treaty Organization International military alliance created to defend western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion. general gave the alliance's governing body Noun 1. governing body - the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he ." * QI/TQM's three-part series examining the effects of heavy workloads and staffing shortages on health care--"months before the national media fixed their attention on the problem of rampant medical errors in hospitals across the country." |
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