Tech-Related Journalism In The News
This year's National Journalism Awards, granted annually by the Scripps Howard Foundation, include a few with technology-related angles, including the top award for investigative journalism.
The Wall Street Journal won the investigative prize for its series on employee stock options. We have linked to much of the coverage in the Journal and other publications in our AM Edition because so many of the companies caught up in the scandal over manipulating stock options are in the technology industry.
This week alone, we have cited stories on: the chairman of Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry handheld device, resigning over the options scandal at his firm; option values being manipulated after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to maximize profits; and the dilemma that the Securities and Exchange Commission faces in whether or how to penalize companies for such backdating of options.
The journalism award for the Journal went to James Bandler, Charles Forelle, Mark Maremont and Steve Stecklow.
The award for Web reporting went to washingtonpost.com for its "Being a Black Man" production, which featured videos, Web chats, Web logs, a live webcast and an interactive survey along with the text that was published in the daily newspaper. And WTHR-TV in Indianapolis finished first for excellence in electronic media/TV-cable thanks to "Cause for Alarm," the station's investigation of the failure of the tornado warning systems in Indiana.
One finalist also is worth mentioning to our readers. Laura McGann of AP was the finalist for "distinguished service to the First Amendment" because of her work in uncovering how the Education Department and FBI ran a counter-terrorism data-mining program for five years.
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