National Press Foundation Awards Announced

We already told you about some of the awards being given out, but here’s the full list:

WASHINGTON DC — The National Press Foundation has announced the winners of its 2006 awards, among the most prestigious in journalism.

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, will receive the Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award, for his work on a magazine that is literary journalism at its best, a magazine that meets the ultimate test — its readers look forward to its arrival every week. PBS’s Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and senior correspondent for the Newshour with Jim Lehrer, will receive the Sol Taishoff Award for Broadcasting Excellence. Veteran columnist Art Buchwald will receive the W.M. Kiplinger Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism for his grace, humor, astounding productivity and lifetime commitment to the craft.

The Everett McKinley Dirksen Awards for Distinguished Coverage of Congress will be given to The Wall Street Journal’s Brody Mullins for print journalism and to Steve Henn & William Kistner of American Public Media for broadcast work. Special Mentions will be awarded to Paul Kane of Roll Call and Andrew Taylor of the Associated Press. Steve Sack, editorial cartoonist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, has been named the Berryman Cartoonist of the Year. Bloomberg.com will receive the foundation’s award for Excellence in Online Journalism. A project from the Medill School of Journalism called “Digital Trails” was cited for innovative use of the media.

In a special tribute, the dinner will honor journalists who have been killed or injured while covering the Iraq war. Appearing on behalf of this group will be Michael Weisskopf of Time Magazine, who lost his right hand while throwing an explosive device out of the Humvee in which he was riding. The Worth Bingham Prize for investigative reporting will be presented by the National Press Foundation for the first time, with the winner announced in February.

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