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DEPT. OF SELF-CONGRATULATION
Kennedy wins national media-criticism award

The National Press Club announced this week that Boston Phoenix senior writer Dan Kennedy has won the prestigious Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism. The award recognizes his work in 2000, which ranged from local media stories to analyses of national and international events such as the presidential campaign and violence in the Middle East.

To read the work that won Kennedy the Rowse Award please click here www.bostonphoenix.com/pages/dan_kennedy.htm

Kennedy will receive the award on July 23 at the club’s headquarters, in Washington, DC. The runner-up is William Powers, of National Journal, who won the Rowse Award last year.

A member of the Phoenix staff since 1991, Kennedy became the paper’s media critic in 1994. He is a past winner of the Rowse Award, having been named the runner-up in 1999, and is a two-time winner of the media-reporting award given by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (first place, 1999; second place, 2000).

Also this week, the National Press Club awarded its Rowse Press Criticism prize in the television-and-radio category to “Beat the Press,” a Friday roundtable on media issues that is part of WGBH-TV’s Greater Boston public-affairs show. Kennedy is a frequent panelist on the show, which is hosted by Emily Rooney.

Kennedy, 44, began his newspaper career in 1979 at the Daily Times Chronicle, in Woburn, for whom he covered the landmark 1986 toxic-waste trial that was the subject of Jonathan Harr’s best-selling book A Civil Action. He and his family live on Boston’s North Shore.

Issue Date: June 20, 2001






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