by Mark Washburn | Jul 12, 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 | 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...
by Mark Washburn | Jul 12, 2024
William Randolph Hearst was among the 11 winners in 1937, receiving a Headliner Award for enterprise in journalism. We’re still waiting for him to come pick it up. In an industry dominated by men, it took Headliners nearly a decade to honor a woman. She was Helen...
by Mark Washburn | Jul 12, 2024
Robert Guccione, publisher of Penthouse Magazine, was keynote speaker at the 1979 banquet. Headliners chairman Howard Berger explained the unorthodox selection. Guccione was at the time building a $60 million casino hotel complex, expected to become the fourth to open...
by Mark Washburn | Jul 12, 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...
