'Dayton Daily News' series on Peace Corps wins award for Distinguished Service to the First Amendment from the Scripps Howard Foundation
'Dayton Daily News' series wins award
The Dayton Daily News has received an award for Distinguished Service to the First Amendment from the Scripps Howard Foundation for the newspaper's 2003 series on safety in the Peace Corps.
The foundation's National Journalism Awards, open to all U.S. news organizations and college journalism educators, recognize excellence in 19 categories, including editorial writing, human-interest writing, environmental and public service reporting, business/economics reporting, commentary, photojournalism, radio and television journalism, college cartooning, Web reporting and editorial cartooning.
The Daily News was the only Ohio news organization to receive an award.
The series, by staff writers Russell Carollo and Mei-Ling Hopgood, documented the dangers faced by Peace Corps volunteers, many of them sent to live alone in remote areas of some of the world's most dangerous countries and left unsupervised for months at a time.
The judges said, "The story was extraordinarily readable and brought an international story home to Ohio."
This year the newspaper's Peace Corps series won top honors in the 70th annual National Headliner Awards competition sponsored by the Press Club of Atlantic City, and was named one of six finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, awarded by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.
The Scripps Howard First Amendment Award will be presented April 23 during a dinner at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
