Tooting our own horn

Dan Kennedy wins National Press Club award

Columnists Mike Barnicle and Patricia Smith didn't do themselves or the Boston Globe any good in 1998, but they certainly boosted Phoenix media reporter Dan Kennedy's currency. On July 22, Dan attended the National Press Club's annual awards dinner, in Washington, DC, where he was named runner-up for the Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism. Dan was honored for a broad sampling of his work, but the judges specifically cited his ongoing coverage of the Globe during a year marred by the antics of Smith and Barnicle, who departed following accusations of fabricated facts and, in Barnicle's case, plagiarism.

This year's first-place Rowse winner was Alicia Shepard, senior writer for the American Journalism Review.

Earlier this year, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) awarded Dan first place for media reporting in its annual editorial competition, for his coverage of the Barnicle scandal. An index of Dan's Rowse Award work is available online at http://www.shore.net/~dkennedy/rowse.html.

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Dan Kennedy's work can be accessed from his Web site: http://www.shore.net/~dkennedy

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Dan Kennedy can be reached at dkennedy[a]phx.com

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