Award Winners, Ferguson, Charlie, Federal Dollars & more

Thursday, January 15

The National Press Foundation recognizes extraordinary journalism excellence in its slate of award winners. These journalists will be honored at NPF’s annual awards dinner Feb. 18 in Washington, D.C. To attend, learn more here or contact jessica@nationalpress.org.

Winners:

George Stephanopoulos, ABC News
Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism

Brian Krebs, KrebsOnSecurity
Chairman's Citation

Gilbert Bailon, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award

Alberto Ibargüen, The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
W.M. Kiplinger Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism

BuzzFeed News
Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress

Drew Griffin, CNN
Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress

Thomas Frank, USA TODAY
Feddie Award for Reporting on Federal Rules and Local Impact

Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning

Re/code
Excellence in Online Journalism Award

Mark Chediak, Chris Martin, Ken Wells, Jim Polson, Bloomberg News
Thomas L. Stokes Award for Energy Writing

Learn more about the winners here. To attend, learn more here or contact jessica@nationalpress.org

Upcoming Programs: Federal Dollars

Capitol Hill Issues Briefing: The Federal Budget

Date: Tuesday, January 27
Time: 9am-noon
Location: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC

The president will release his proposed fiscal 2016 budget on February 2. This free workshop will help any journalist who expects to cover it on that day, or in the months to come.

Speakers:

Andrew Taylor, National Staff Writer, Associated Press

Marilyn Geewax, Senior Business News Editor, Business News Desk, NPR

Steve Gettinger, Deputy Managing Editor, CQ Weekly

Kathleen Peroff, Peroff and Associates, Formerly Office of Management and Budget

This briefing is a collaboration among the National Press Foundation, The Center on Congress at Indiana University and the Regional Reporters Association.

Funding for this financial literacy program was provided by grants from The David Swit Endowment, Evelyn Y. Davis, the Evelyn Y. Davis Foundation and the NPF Training Fund.

Webinar: Making Sense of Federal Dollars and Cents

Date: Wednesday, January 28
Time: 1:00 PM EST
Where: Free Live Webinar

The federal government spends more than $3 trillion in the states each year. In this free webinar, two Pew Charitable Trusts experts will explain their in-depth analysis of state and federal spending, and walk you through resources to compare one state to another.

Speakers:

Barb Rosewicz, A director of research for state fiscal health and economic growth at Pew

Anne Stauffer, Director of fiscal federalism at Pew

Funding for this webinar was provided by the NPF Training Fund.

Coming up in March: Tobacco's Global Impact

Dates: March 15-21
Location: Abu Dhabi

In collaboration with the 16th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, NPF will host 20 international journalists at the conference. We'll post live resources here. Stay tuned.

Additional funding provided by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.

Resource: Lessons Learned from Covering Ebola

Since it hit the news in early 2014, the Ebola disaster has been a humbling series of lessons – for health officials at all levels in the US and abroad, for local governments, the military and the media. In this webinar, funded by Bayer, Amy Maxmen Ph.D. and science journalist and Gregg Zoroya, journalist at USA Today, discuss their work. View the video here.

#DidYouKnow: Rules for Hiring Interns

"If you haven’t been following, the issue is pretty simple. In April 2010, the United States Department of Labor released its 'Fact Sheet # 71: Internships Under the [FLSA]' which provided some clarification on whether interns performing work for a for-profit business have to be paid a minimum wage under federal law. The fact sheet identified six criteria to help determine whether interns should be paid:"

This blog was written by Kevin M. Goldberg, an attorney at Fletcher, Heald and Hildreth LLC and vice chairman of the National Press Foundation. Read more here.

Blog: The Aftermath of Ferguson

Ferguson wasn’t the first news story fraught with racial overtones and it won’t be the last. White cop shoots black man was the story that erupted from Ferguson last August and picked up steam with similar violence in New York City and Cleveland. “Hands up, don’t shoot” went viral on Twitter.

What happens when a newsroom finds itself in that vortex? What happens when hundreds of reporters from across the country and across the world find their way to your community to cover a story like Ferguson?

Read more from this blog written by NPF president Sandy Johnson and watch a video created by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Post-Dispatch editor Gilbert Bailon is this year’s recipient of the Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year award for his leadership of the Ferguson coverage.

Suggested Tweet: What caused Ferguson to happen in the first place? @STLtoday editors discuss their coverage via @NatPress video: http://ow.ly/HnGb9

Blog: Attack on Journalists: "I am Charlie"

You could almost feel the chill when the news erupted from Paris this week. Two terrorists gunned down journalists at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, leaving 12 dead and a feeling of shock and alarm among journalists across the world.

But chill is exactly what the terrorists intended: a chilling effect on freedom of the press. Within hours, shock gave way to anger and then to solidarity.