Andrew Beaujon
Mar. 14, 2013
2:40 pm
Scripps Howard Foundation
Spencer S. Hsu won the Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize for investigative reporting in this year's Scripps Howard Awards,
announced Thursday. Hsu's
articles on forensic science "exposed the Department of Justice's use of flawed data in more than 20,000 criminal convictions," the awards text reads.
Other winners include Patricia Callahan, Sam Roe and Michael Hawthorne of the Chicago Tribune
for their series on flame retardant furniture, Lisa Krantz of the San Antonio Express-News
for her photojournalism, and the Denver Post for
its breaking-news coverage of the July 2012 Aurora, Colo., theater shootings. The New York Times won in the
digital innovation category for "Snow Fall." The Post's Aurora coverage and "Snow Fall"
also both won ASNE awards.
Previously:
SABEW, Selden Ring, SND winners announced as awards season heats up |
Austin Tice, David Corn win Polk Awards
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Feb. 12, 2013
7:39 am
The media landscape in Colorado has changed dramatically in the past five years.
In 2008, Colorado’s main content providers were the same traditional print and broadcast news organizations that had been providing the state with news for decades.
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Jeff Sonderman
Aug. 6, 2012
10:37 am
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Jim Romenesko
Aug. 4, 2011
3:13 pm
Westword
Westword editors thought Denver Mayor Michael Hancock's new Denver International Airport underground train greeting
"begs for the sound of a cracking whip" because the African-American city leader's "Welcome to the MILE HIIIGH CITY!" has the twang of a rodeo announcer. Joel Warner wrote:
Cowboy-speak? Really? Sorry, but most folks don't want to imagine themselves on a dude ranch when they're packed like sardines in an underground train after a four-hour red eye from Newark.
The Denver Post's Lynn Bartels, who was in Albuquerque in 1992 covering March Madness when Bobby Knight cracked a bullwhip across the butt of one of his black players,
says she was "weirded out" by the whip sound, but media critic Michael Roberts points out:
Post readers haven't flooded its website with angry invective. As of now, there's just one comment on the item, which doesn't really take a stand one way or the other. And on Westword's original post, published yesterday, only two of six comments were critical -- and neither mentioned race.
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Jim Romenesko
June 27, 2011
2:15 pm
Westword |
Denver Business Journal
Editor Greg Moore says he's heard "zip" about "Doonesbury" and the other strips that were cut, including the weekday 'Peanuts,' 'Non Sequitur, Overboard,' 'Rhymes with Orange' and others. (Managing editor/administration Jeanette Chavez got one complaint about the missing "Doonesbury.") "There's no mystery why the strips are bidding farewell, print-wise," writes Michael Roberts. "Last week, [editor Moore] confirmed a 4 percent budget cut and shrinkage to the feature section, where the comics appear, as well as the sports section."
Denver Business Journal new media editor Mark Harden reacts to the news:
I’m sure the Post is armed with a sheaf of readership data that told its editors that, for example, Beetle Bailey - about a guy who’s been a private for 60 years in an Army that never seems to get deployed anywhere — was worth saving. But still, I was stunned Sunday when I went looking for Doonesbury in my Sunday Post and couldn’t find it - Doonesbury, arguably the most influential, most talked-about strip of the last generation.
> "I don't think 'Doonesbury' will be a legacy strip," says Trudeau (Nov. 2010)
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Damon Kiesow
Dec. 23, 2010
6:40 am
Nieman Reports
The Denver Post’s Lindsay Jones calls herself a “Twitter-holic” but says her reporting standards are the same no matter the platform:
“My approach is this: I am a journalist first, reporting for a newspaper. My standards for sending
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