Spring 1996
Congratulations…
The award recognizes innovation and forward thinking in newspaper content. And it recognizes newspaper public journalism initiatives that serve as catalysts to help solve problems or enhance democracy. Judging is by the University of Kentucky School of Journalism.
To the Manhattan Mercury, Manhattan, Kan., which received the Inland Innovation Award for public journalism experiments, presented in February by the Inland Press Association, for one of the paper’s first civic journalism efforts on Binge Drinking.
And to WSOC-TV, the ABC affiliate in Charlotte, N.C., which won the coveted Jack R. Howard award for journalistic excellence from the Scripps Howard Foundation for the last program in its two-year project, “Carolina Crime Solutions/Taking Back our Neighborhoods.” The project was done in conjunction with The Charlotte Observer. The first-place award honors “the best investigative or in-depth reporting of events covered by television and radio stations or cable systems in 1995.”