Dayton Daily News shared a $2,500 prize for "Casualties of Peace," a seven-day series that revealed an outbreak of violence against Peace Corps volunteers



Dayton Daily News shared a $2,500 prize for "Casualties of Peace," a seven-day series that revealed an outbreak of violence against Peace Corps volunteers

Post, Times win White House reporting awards

The Associated Press
4/8/04 9:27 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mike Allen of The Washington Post and David Sanger of The New York Times won top awards for presidential coverage from the White House Correspondents' Association.

The group said Thursday it awarded Allen the $1,000 Merriman Smith Award for outstanding presidential coverage under deadline pressure for his coverage of President Bush's secret Thanksgiving trip to Iraq. Allen was the only newspaper reporter on the trip.

Sanger won the association's $1,000 Aldo Beckman Award for journalistic excellence for a series of stories he wrote detailing Bush's decision-making process. Sanger won the Smith award last year.

Russell Corollo and Mei-ling Hopgood of the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News shared a $2,500 prize for "Casualties of Peace," a seven-day series that revealed an outbreak of violence against Peace Corps volunteers. They won the Edgar A. Poe Award for reporting of national or regional significance.

The winners will receive their awards at the association's annual dinner on May 1.