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PD writer awarded MOLLY (as in Ivins) National Journalism honor


From the Plain Dealer:

Plain Dealer reporter Diane Suchetka has won the MOLLY National Journalism Award for “Bernard’s Story.”

The four-part series detailed the journey of Bernard Hill, a high school dropout from the Mount Pleasant neighborhood who earned a high school equivalency diploma.

The MOLLY award honors the late Molly Ivins, a legendary columnist and former editor of The Texas Observer in Austin, Texas. Ivins, 62, died in 2007. She had breast cancer.

The award, which is in its first year, recognizes the best print and online journalism that focuses on civil liberties and so cial justice and in cludes a $5,000 prize.

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Finalists for the award work for newspapers and magazines across the country, including The Nation, Mother Jones, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune and Editor & Publisher.

Go to www.cleveland.com/mountpleasant to read “Bernard’s Story.”

One slight problem with the PD’s announcement: it appears that the award is not in its first year exactly:

The Texas Observer and the Texas Democracy Foundation announce a call for submissions for the second annual MOLLY, a national journalism prize honoring the indelible memory of our Molly Ivins.

The first MOLLY award was presented to Molly herself at an event held in her honor in the fall of 2006.

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The prize will be awarded on June 12, 2008, at a dinner in Austin, Texas. Honorary co-chairs are Ellen Goodman and Calvin Trillin.

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The second MOLLY will be awarded for work published in 2007. Although Molly can be never be replicated, we look for others following in her tradition.

First prize is a $5,000 cash award, plus The MOLLY Prize. Two $1,000 honorable mention prizes will also be awarded. A group of nationally prominent journalists will serve as final judges.

Congratulations to Diane Suchetko.

Hattip Romenesko.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:34 pm June 12th, 2008 in Announcements, Media, Ohio, Social Issues, Women, Writing 

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