New York Press Club
2006 Journalism Awards

We were proud to see so many extraordinary stories among this year's entries: from Guantanamo Bay to the potato fields of eastern Long Island and the battle of a firefighter determined to get back on his feet.

Here is the complete list of winners of the 2006 New York Press Club Journalism Awards:

The Gold Keyboard Award for Outstanding Public Service

Rita Nissan, New York 1 News, "Psychopolitics"

Gold Keyboard Award Honorable Mention

Daily News, "9/11 Money Trough"
Russ Buettner, Heidi Evans, Robert Gearty, Brian Kates, Greg B. Smith and Richard Pienciak

The Crystal Gavel Award (sponsored by the New York State Bar Association)

Adam Liptak, The New York Times, "Beyond the Law"

Marianne McCune, WNYC Radio, "Guantanamo Diaries"

Anticipated News Story Award

The New York Times Staff, "The Transit Strike of 2005"

WCBS Newsradio 880, "The 2005 NYC Marathon"

Jay DeDapper, Jamie McShane and John Albertson
WNBC, "The Road to Singapore"

Spot News Award

The New York Times Staff, "21 Tourists Die on Boat on Lake George"

TIME Magazine, "An American Tragedy"

1010 WINS Radio, "The Thanksgiving Day Balloon Crash," Steve Kastenbaum, Catherine Smith and Doug O'Brien

WNBC "Live at Five," "Building Collapse"

Continuing Coverage

Sara Kugler, The Associated Press, "Bloomberg Coverage"

Jonathan Alter, Barbara Kantrowitz and Karen Breslau, Newsweek, "Poverty, Race and Katrina: Lessons of a National Shame"

WCBS Newsradio 880 staff, "New York City Transit Strike of 2005"

Jonathan Dienst, Alice McQuillan and Joseph Valiquette, WNBC-TV, "Subway Terror Threat"

Feature

Steve Wick, Newsday, "The Last Potato Graders"

Nancy Gibbs and Nathan Thornburgh, TIME Magazine, "The Class of 9/11"

Soterios Johnson, WNYC Radio, "Primal Scream"

Alyssa Coleman, WPIX-TV, "Hip Hop Violinists"

Business News

Mark Maremont, The Wall Street Journal, "Exposing the Seamy Underside of Corporate Pay and Perks"

David Welch and Dan Beucke, Business Week, "Why GM's Plan Won't Work"

Carole Zimmer, Bloomberg Radio, "From Berlin to Vineland"

Chuck Scarborough, Emily Smolar, Brian Quinn and John Gonzalez, WNBC-TV, "Santiago Solution"

Reverend Mychal Judge Award

Sara Fishko, WNYC Radio, "New York Shakespeare Festival 50th Anniversary"

Mary Murphy, WPIX-TV, "Firefighter Stolowski Walks Again"

Political Coverage

Nanette Byrnes and Christopher Palmeri, Business Week, "Sinkhole"

Stan Brooks, Steve Sandberg, Steve Kastenbaum and Kathleen Maloney, 1010 WINS Radio, "Election 2005"

Walt Kane, Bill Schlosser and Anthony Cocco
News 12 New Jersey, "Frequent Flyers"

Consumer News

Erik German, Newsday, "Stealing the house itself"

Timothy J. Mullaney and Arlene Weintraub
Business Week, "The Digital Hospital"

Barbara Nevins Taylor, Chris O'Donoghue, Ed Lopez, Jimmy Mitchell, Paul Tsakos and Kathy Coles, WWOR Nine News, "Steal This House"

Crime News

Vernon Silver, Bloomberg News, "Raiders of the Lost Art"

Jonathan Dienst, Alice McQuillan Joseph Valiquette and John Gonzalez, WNBC-TV, "Tapping the Mob"

Sports News

Juliet Macur, The New York Times, "In Two Arenas"

Lou Wasson, WFUV, "Vin Scully: Voice of Heaven"

Ned Radovic, WNBC-TV, "Afleet Alex"

Entertainment News

Rob Urban, Bloomberg News, "New York's CBGB Outlived Ramones, May Fail to Real Estate Boom"

Jeff Giles, Newsweek, "Lennon Lives"

Curtis Fox and Elena Park, WNYC Radio, "Walt Whitman: Song of Myself"

New York 1 News, "Jazz Lives Here"

Best Regularly Scheduled Local News Program

WNBC News at 11 p.m.

Best Regularly Scheduled Morning News Program

WNBC-TV, Today In New York, "British Consulate Explosion"

Television News Special

CBS2 News

Spot News Photo

Bob Sabo, Freelance Photographer, "Times Scare" (published in the Daily News 7/25/05)

Feature Photo, Susan Watts, Daily News, "Fleet Week Fun"

Feature Video

Michael Dudley, New York 1 News, "One on 1 with Budd Mishkin: Chuck Close"

Nellie Bly Cub Reporter

Danielle Sacks, Fast Company Magazine, "The Accidental Guru"

Outstanding Web Coverage

1010WINS.com, "The New York City Transit Strike"

 

Other Awards, Honors,
Fellowships and Internships

The Abe Fellowship

The Mike Berger Award

The Pulitzer Prize Board

The Robert F. Kennedy
Journalism Award

Society of Professional Journalists' Awards and Fellowships

Courage in Journalism Awards,
from the International
Women's Media Foundation

Scripps Howard Foundation
National Journalism Awards

The Newswise Roundup
of Journalism Awards

New York State Society
of Certified Public Accountants
Financial Journalism Award

Editor & Publisher
EPpy Awards


The Reuters Foundation
has lots of training programs

RTNDA has awards and fellowships

Times Mirror has internships

Viacom has internships

US News & World Report internships

NPR internships

MSNBC internships

WNET-TV internships

WB11 has internships

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