Coverage of the catastrophic Joplin, Mo., tornado and the investigation into secret intelligence operations set up by the New York City Police Department won awards for deadline and enterprise reporting from the Associated Press Media Editors association for journalism excellence by AP staffers.
"The coverage of the Joplin carnage provided a riveting, detailed window onto what amounted to a post-apocalyptic wasteland,” the APME judges said in awarding the Deadline Reporting prize to the AP team that covered the tornado. "For all the challenges they faced, the AP team may as well have been in a war zone – no amount of planning could have anticipated the technical and physical hardships in the storm's aftermath. This is deadline reporting at its absolute finest."
Monday, July 09, 2012
Joplin Globe tornado coverage earns APME honors
The Joplin Globe's coverage of the May 22, 2011, tornado, earned top honors in the deadline reporting category of the annual Associated Press Media Editors awards:
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Congratulations to The Globe ... or AP ... or both. Not sure which really. At any rate, I think the expression "war zone" (used here by the APME) is fast becoming overworked, as it invariably appears in the descriptions of inhabited areas adversely affected by natural disasters. Rick Nichols.
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