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The group says the Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award is the nation's oldest and most prestigious for editors. It will be presented at NPF’s 28th annual awards dinner, on March 1 in Washington.
Other winners include Andrea Mitchell, NBC News and MSNBC, receiving the Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in broadcast Journalism; and Matt Wuerker, receiving the Berryman Award as Editorial cartoonist of the Year.
The award is named in honor of Ben Bradlee, who served as executive editor of The Washington Post from 1968 to 1991.
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That beats the Prick of the Year he earned during his time in Louisville.
ReplyDelete1:08 - he won that same award when he was in Detroit!
ReplyDeleteHe also won the rude and crude award at The Journal News.
ReplyDeleteAn insufferable individual whom Gannett must have enrolled in snarling and insult classes.
What exactly did Silverman have to do with the coverage?
ReplyDeleteHis nastiness skills are well known, but beyond that, he didn't do much of anything during his time in Westchester.
This guy has always been a prick. There was a big celebration when he left Detroit. But the problem is not that Silverman is a prick... it's the fact that he has thrived in Gannettland. That should tell you all that you need to know about the company.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, 9:47 a.m. Gannett favors nasty, rude executives. I think it even has a special training camp for them.
ReplyDeleteI believe Henry Freeman was a graduate as well.
Who put him in for this reward? I'll lay odds-on that it was none other than himself. He's a self-promoter and a really bad manager notorious for mistreating his employees so much that I doubt anyone at that paper would do him the favor of putting his entry in any contest.
ReplyDeleteI believe applications were invite-only, so Silverman could be nominated only if the National Press Foundation itself wanted him to reconsidered.
ReplyDeleteThis is a top journalism award. Deal with it. Your petty backbiting and hurt feelings are unseemly.
ReplyDeleteWhat's your point? That they should have picked a sweeter guy to win an award named for Ben Bradlee -- an editor famed for his pleasant, chummy, inclusive, accessible, soft-spoken, nonjudgmental, non-Machiavellian management style?
Here's the deal about Silverman: He has some strong editing skills. He can come up with good story ideas. He's also a HORRENDOUSLY bad manager who, if left completly unsupervised, can decimate the morale of a newspaper staff. His success in Nashville will never erase the bad legacy he left in Detroit, Louisville, Rockford and Westchester.
ReplyDeleteI met him once shortly after being "acquired" by Gannett. He was arrogant and all, but not especially rude.
ReplyDeleteHowever, this award is similar to others and they all have the same problem - they are given to the guy at the top who really has little to do with the day-to-day coverage or long hours of work needed to provide the community with the flood coverage "he" was honored for.
The award should have gone to a couple of assistant editors, the paginators, copy editors and web staffers and reporters who did all the work.
Where were these alleged "unexpected floods" in Nashville. I read the Washington Post each day, and I swear I don't remember any of this.
ReplyDeleteAs I recall the floods didn't get much national attention because they came the same week as the Times Square attempted bombing in New York City.
ReplyDeleteSo unexpected - that the Tennessean itself ran stories for two days before the floods calling for flooding.
ReplyDeleteYes, brusque at times. Most leaders are. But congratulations to Mark. Well deserved.
ReplyDeleteAt 11:59 a.m. and 4:16 p.m.: Mark, is that you?
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