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Comments: 0 Views: 18Yancey County News wins major journalism award
CINCINNATI – The Scripps Howard Foundation today announced the winners of its annual Scripps Howard Awards, honoring the best work in the communications industry and journalism education in 2011. Awards include:
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Jonathan Austin and Susan Austin of the Yancey County News, Burnsville, N.C., receive $10,000 and the Edward Willis Scripps Award for “Unlawful Law Enforcement,” which exposed absentee ballot fraud, ethics violations, abuse of arrest powers, and the theft and illegal sale of county-owned firearms – all during the newspaper’s first year of operation and despite risks both financial and physical.
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT
Jonathan Austin and Susan Austin of the Yancey County News, Burnsville, N.C., receive $10,000 and the Edward Willis Scripps Award for “Unlawful Law Enforcement,” which exposed absentee ballot fraud, ethics violations, abuse of arrest powers, and the theft and illegal sale of county-owned firearms – all during the newspaper’s first year of operation and despite risks both financial and physical.
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