by John Wordock | Jun 24, 2025
What an honor. I was invited to help judge this year’s National Headliner Awards. Now in its 90th year, these awards honor the best and the brightest in journalism and media. Including podcasts. After reviewing countless entries, I came away with one overwhelming...
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,...
