For
the second consecutive year,
Project Censored, the
Sonoma (Calif.) State University media watchdog program, has
awarded Chicago- based In These Times top honors in its
annual ranking of the year's most under- reported stories.
In These Times editor Joel Bleifuss,who
has won more Project Censored awards than any other individual
journalist, was awarded first place this year for his investigation
into the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI). ("Building
the Global Economy," Jan. 11, 1998).
Selection of the "most censored"
stories is a complex task involving hundreds of people nationwide.
For this year's awards, close to 1,000 stories were screened
by the Project Censored staff.
In other news, contributing editor Juan
Gonzalez won the 1998 George
W. Polk award for commentary, one of the most prestigious
awards in journalism, for his ongoing coverage of New York's
poor and disenfranchised as a columnist for Daily News.
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