by Mark Washburn | Oct 17, 2024
Jim Haught of The Charleston Gazette in West Virginia was honored in 1971 for investigative reporting. “I only wish there was a cash prize attached to this because this week I inherited the major pitfall of investigative reporting,” he said in accepting his prize. “I...
by Mark Washburn | Oct 16, 2024
In an industry dominated by men, it took Headliners nearly a decade to honor a woman. She was Helen Hiett, who demonstrated that shoe leather comes on dancing shoes, too. To get a story for NBC in 1940 about how British troops were enduring a Nazi siege at Gibraltar,...
by Mark Washburn | Oct 16, 2024
The 90th National Headliner Award winners honoring the best journalism in the United States in 2023 were announced today. The awards were founded in 1934 by the Press Club of Atlantic City. The annual contest is one of the oldest and largest in the country that...
by Mark Washburn | Oct 15, 2024
At the first Headliners award dinner in 1935, New Jersey Gov. Harold Hoffman explained he was once a cub reporter, making $8 a week. And, he said, judging by editorials in New Jersey papers, some editors still felt “I was worth about $8 a week.” National Headliners...
by Mark Washburn | Jul 12, 2024
In 1981, Betty Cuniberti became the first female sportswriter to win a Headliners Award. Her newspaper, The Washington Star, folded six months before the awards banquet. Headliner awards get around. Sometimes in circles. Vern Haugland, an Associated Press war...
