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...remarkable use of photography in the Statue of Liberty Centennial issue, including the largest picture ever to appear in TIME, a four-page foldout of the fireworks over New York harbor. For such achievements last year, the magazine is again one of the five finalists for a National Magazine Award for general excellence, having won the award only two years...
...plan, in use since 1918, enjoyed one last hurrah. Chairman Roger Smith and 5,459 fellow employees received $169 million in bonuses for 1986, a year in which company profits dropped by $1 billion. Smith's package adds a $338,000 cash bonus and a so-called performance achievement award of $280,000 to his $750,000 salary. The cash bonus and salary figures add up to 8.5% less than Smith...
Journalists, a cynical lot by nature, are often skeptical of press awards. As prizes have proliferated, they note, so has a certain genre of newspaper story: the multipart series that takes on a big subject, pursues it with crusading zeal and seems to run on forever. Such journalistic tomes frequently seem created as much to please award judges as to satisfy readers. "We're thinking about putting the following helpful advisory over them," syndicated Humor Columnist Dave Barry wrote this month. "'Caution! Journalism Prize Entry! Do Not Read...
Still, these projects often are examples of daily journalism at its best: dogged, committed reporting that illuminates local problems and helps bring about change. Several such stories were honored last week with the newspaper world's most coveted award, the Pulitzer Prize. The Philadelphia Inquirer, in an unusual coup, won two in the same category, investigative reporting. One went to John Woestendiek, whose day-to-day coverage of the prison beat led him to probe the case of Terence McCracken Jr., a teenager convicted of murdering an elderly man during a holdup. Woestendiek's yearlong investigation, which included interviews with...
...Inquirer, which has developed into one of the nation's leading papers under Executive Editor Eugene Roberts, led the field with three awards. (Its third was for a feature story by Steve Twomey about life aboard an aircraft carrier.) The New York Times won two: one for its coverage of the aftermath of the space shuttle Challenger disaster and another for reporting by Alex S. Jones on the breakup of the Bingham family's Louisville newspaper empire. The / Los Angeles Times also took two prizes: for Michael Parks' reports from South Africa and Richard Eder's book criticism. Charles Krauthammer...