| Washington Reporting Raymond Clapper Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | "Distinguished Washington reporting" |
| Sponsored by | Raymond Clapper Memorial Association (1944–2003) Scripps Howard Foundation (2004–2011) |
| Location | Washington, D.C. |
| Country | United States |
| Hosted by | White House Correspondents' Association American Society of Newspaper Editors National Journalism Awards |
| Formerly called | Raymond Clapper Memorial Award |
| First awarded | 1944 |
| Last awarded | 2011 |
The Raymond Clapper Memorial Award, later called the Washington Reporting Raymond Clapper Award, was an American journalism award presented from 1944 to 2011. Named in honor of Raymond Clapper (1892–1944), the award was given "to a journalist or team for distinguished Washington reporting."
The award was presented most often at the annual White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner,[1] but for a period in the years 1951 to 1965 it was given at the annual American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) dinner. In the early days of the Award, it was often presented to the winner by the U.S. President, who was usually a guest at the press dinner.
Starting in 2004 the award was presented as part of Scripps Howard's National Journalism Awards (later known as the Scripps Howard Awards). The Raymond Clapper Award was discontinued after 2011.[2]
History
Reporter and Scripps Howard columnist Raymond Clapper died in 1944 during World War II while covering the U.S. invasion of the Marshall Islands. Following his death, the Raymond Clapper Memorial Association[lower-alpha 1] was incorporated in Washington, D.C. "to perpetuate the memory of Clapper"[4] through the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award.[5]
"The organizing committee of the association was composed of the heads of various newspaper organizations in Washington," including Scripps-Howard Newspapers, the Chicago Sun, United Press, the White House Correspondents' Association, United Feature Syndicate, Overseas Writers Association, and the Gridiron Club.[4]
Under the terms of the incorporation of the Clapper Memorial Association, "the Standing Committee of Correspondents, the governing body of the Washington press corps ... will be in complete control of the award, ... so that it will always be under the direction of the working, newspapermen of the national capital."[4]
The founding trustees of the Clapper Association were George B. Parker, editor-in-chief of Scripps-Howard Newspapers; Byron Price of the Associated Press; and Eugene Meyer of The Washington Post.[4]
Under Scripps Howard, the Washington Reporting Raymond Clapper Award was presented from 2004 to 2011, at which point it was discontinued.[2]
Overview
In 1993, the criteria for the Award was described as "...any Washington-based daily newspaper reporter whose work most closely approximated the ideals of fair and painstaking reporting, and the good craftsmanship of Raymond Clapper."[6]
The winner of the Award was selected by a panel of five editors/writers from a list of finalists.[4] Most years, Honorable Mention and Second Place prizes were awarded as well.
List of awardees
Notes
References
Citations
- ↑ "In pictures: The history of the White House Correspondents' Dinner". CNN. April 29, 2023.
...Raymond Clapper Memorial Award, which was given by the White House Correspondents' Association for distinguished reporting.
- 1 2 Scripps Howard Awards (2014). "Past Winners". StudyLib.net. Retrieved Nov 17, 2022.
- ↑ "RAYMOND CLAPPER MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: 501C3 Nonprofit Organization Information". Tax Exempt World. Retrieved Nov 22, 2023.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Raymond Clapper Memorial Association Is Created". St. Petersburg Times. March 10, 1944. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
- ↑ "(untitled brief)". Indiana Gazette. Pennsylvania, Indiana. April 5, 2001. p. 25. Retrieved March 2, 2016 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "National Contests". Editor & Publisher. Vol. 126, no. 52. 1993-12-25.
- ↑ Johnson, Owen V.; Hays, Holly (Spring 2016). "Wrestling with fame: Ernie Pyle and the Pulitzer Prize". Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. Indiana Historical Society Press. 2 (2).
Pyle was awarded the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award from the journalism fraternity Sigma Delta Chi (today called the Society of Professional Journalists) for distinguished foreign correspondence.
- ↑ "In pictures: The history of the White House Correspondents' Dinner". CNN. April 29, 2023.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt ... shakes hands with Raymond P. Brandt, chief of the Washington bureau of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, at the 1945 dinner. Roosevelt was congratulating Brandt for winning the first Raymond Clapper Memorial Award....
- ↑ "Raymond Brandt, Bureau Chief Of Post‐Dispatch in Capital, Dies". The New York Times. March 28, 1974.
Other honors included ... the first Raymond Clapper Award for Washington correspondence in 1945.
- ↑ "Truman is Guest at Writers' Fete". The Southwest Times. Vol. 41, no. 8. Pulaski, Virginia. March 3, 1946.
...twenty-third annual banquet of the White House correspondents association.... It was the association's first 'black tie' affair since Pearl Harbor.
- ↑ "CITATION OF THOMAS LUNSFORD STOKES, BY RAYMOND CLAPPER MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION" (PDF). Congressional Record — Senate. Feb 19, 1947. pp. 1958–1959.
- ↑ "Won Pulitzer Prize". The Washington Post. Dec 12, 1982.
Mr. Finney won the Pulitzer in 1948. In the same year, he won the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for Washington reporting.
- ↑ "In pictures: The history of the White House Correspondents' Dinner". CNN. April 29, 2023.
President Harry Truman ... presents a $500 check to Peter Edson ... for winning the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award in 1949.
- ↑ "PETER EDSON, EX‐COLUMNIST DISCLOSED 1952 NIXON FUND". The New York Times. July 17, 1977.
- ↑ "Congratulations from the President". Editor & Publisher. Vol. 83. April 8, 1950. p. 35.
- ↑ "The Press: Awards". Time. March 13, 1950.
... the Raymond Clapper memorial award, for contributing to 'public enlightenment and a sound democracy.'
- ↑ UPI (Jan 2, 1981). "Jack Steele, a Journalist For 40 Years, Dies at 66". The New York Times.
In 1949 President Truman presented him with the Raymond Clapper Award for distinguished Washington correspondence.
- ↑ "Jack Steele, Award-Winning Reporter, Former Scripps-Howard Editor Here". The Washington Post. Jan 2, 1981.
- ↑ "PAUL L. MARTIN". The New York Times. May 5, 1978.
The same year [1950] he won the Raymond Clapper Award for outstanding Washington reporting.
- ↑ "Clapper Award Won by John M. Hightower". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. St. Louis, Missouri. April 20, 1952. p. 76.
The Clapper award was presented tonight ... at the annual banquet of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
- ↑ AP (Feb 10, 1987). "JOHN M. HIGHTOWER, REPORTER". The New York Times.
In 1952, he was the first person ever to win three top journalism awards in the same year, receiving the Pulitzer for his reporting of diplomatic affairs in 1951, the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for meritorious work in reporting international affairs and the Sigma Delta Chi award for distinguished Washington correspondence.
- ↑ UPI (April 19, 1953). "Lucey Wins Writing Award". Daily Inter Lake. Kalispell, Montana.
The ninth annual Raymond Clapper Memorial Award went to Charles Lucey, chief political writer for the Scripps Howard Newspaper Alliance Saturday.... A $500 cash prize accompanies the award.
- ↑ "NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT CHARLES LUCEY DIES AT 89". The Washington Post. July 8, 1994.
- ↑ "Doris Fleeson, Columnist, Dies; Winner of Journalism Honors". The New York Times. Aug 2, 1970.
...the Raymond Clapper award in 1954 from the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
- ↑ "RESTON OF THE TIMES GETS CLAPPER PRIZE". The New York Times. April 24, 1955. p. 9.
- ↑ "Mollenhoff gets Clapper Award" (PDF). Congressional Record — House. April 25, 1956. p. 7024.
Mr. Mollenhoff, 12th winner of the award established in memory of the late Washington correspondent, received a $500 check and a scroll in a ceremony at the closing dinner of the American Society of Newspaper Editors at the Hotel Statler
- ↑ "CLARK MOLLENHOFF, 69, PULITZER PRIZE WINNER". The Morning Call. March 3, 1991.
- ↑ Smith, J.Y. (March 3, 1991). "PULITZER-WINNING REPORTER CLARK R. MOLLENHOFF DIES". The Washington Post.
- ↑ "Pat Munroe". The Washington Post. July 2002.
- 1 2 "Washington Reporter Gets Clapper Award". The New York Times. April 20, 1958. p. 62.
The award carries $500 and was presented at the closing banquet of the American Society of Newspaper Editors
- ↑ "Post's Folliard Wins Clapper Award For Story on Gas-Bill Lobby Funds". The Washington Post and Times-Herald. 19 April 1959. p. A1.
- ↑ Staff Report (Jun 17, 2021). "Legendary editor of The Kentucky Post, author Vance Trimble, dies at age 107 in Wewoka, Oklahoma". Northern Kentucky Tribune.
- 1 2 3 "CAPITAL COLUMNIST GETS CLAPPER PRIZE". The New York Times. April 23, 1961. p. 82.
- ↑ STEARNS, JESSIE (May 4, 1963). "Washington". OPC Bulletin.
Morton Mintz, Washington Post reporter, received 19th annual Raymond Clapper Memorial Award. The $1,000 cash award was announced at the Editors' Dinner, April 20.
- ↑ "Celebrating Morton Mintz, NF '64, at 100". Nieman Foundation. January 26, 2022.
- ↑ "Wall Street Journal Writer Is Given the Clapper Award". The New York Times. April 19, 1964.
...the Raymond Clapper award in 1964 from the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
- ↑ Wilson, Gary (Jul 8, 2009). "Portrait of a 'Star' reporter". Perry County Tribune.
- ↑ AP (April 20, 1965). "Reporters Get Baker Stories Award". The Kingston Daily Freeman. Kingston, New York. p. 6.
The winning entry ... was announced Saturday during a meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
- ↑ "A Wah Hoo Wah for –". Darthmouth Alumni Magazine. Dartmouth College. July 1966.
- ↑ "UPDATED: Broad Run man killed in accident was Pulitzer-prize winning journalist". Inside NoVA. Apr 27, 2020.
- ↑ Epstein, Noel (June 14, 1989). "HOWARD SIMONS, EX-MANAGING EDITOR OF POST AND NIEMAN CURATOR, DIES". The Washington Post.
- 1 2 AP (May 11, 1968). "Washington Reporter Wins Clapper Memorial Award". The New York Times.
- ↑ "Two Coast Newsmen Win Raymond Clapper Award". The New York Times. May 4, 1969. p. 44.
The award was presented Saturday night at the annual dinner of the White House Correspondents Association.
- ↑ "1962" (PDF). Nieman Reports. Nieman Foundation for Journalism. June 1969. p. 23.
- ↑ "EUGENE ROWAN DIES". The Washington Post. Oct 20, 1995.
Tom Lambert, 83, a former foreign correspondent and public affairs spokesman for the Department of Defense, died of cancer Oct. 15 at his home in Fairfax.... In 1969, he won the Raymond Clapper Award for his story, 'Inside Look at the Green Beret Case.'
- 1 2 "Stout and Frankel, Newsmen in Capital, Get Clapper Award". The New York Times. May 9, 1971.
- ↑ Sommer, Cassy (Sep 5, 2016). "Advance historic page from May 9, 1971: Reporter wins award". Staten Island Advance.
Today's archive page is from May 9, 1971. Jared D. Stout, reporter for the Advance Washington Bureau and the Newhouse News Service, is named winner of the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for 'exceptionally meritorious' work in covering Washington news during 1970.... The award — $1,000 in cash and a scroll — is presented at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner.
- ↑ "3 Journalism Awards Are Won by Reporters". The New York Times. May 1, 1972.
James R. Polk won the $1,000 Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for a series on concealing campaign contributions that appeared in The Evening Star of Washington.
- ↑ "Alumni News". Alumni Newsletter. School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Murphy Hall, University of Minnesota. April 1973. p. 10.
Frank WRIGHT ... won the runner-up prize in this year's Raymond Clapper Memorial Competition for distinguished Washington reporting.
- 1 2 BREED, ALLEN G. (July 24, 2022). "How an AP reporter broke the Tuskegee syphilis story". Associated Press. Seattle Times.
- ↑ "Reporter To Speak About Carter". The Hoya. 10 November 1978. p. 3.
- ↑ "3 Reporters Are Honored By White House News Group". The New York Times. May 4, 1975.
Brooks Jackson of The Associated Press, who received the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for his articles on illegal political contributions by milk producers.
- 1 2 "1914–1976: The Annual Dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association" (PDF). Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum. May 1, 1976.
Ms. Thomas will present the Merriman Smith Memorial Award to Aldo Beckman of the Chicago Tribune; the Worth Bingham Memorial Award and the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award (1st prize) to James V. Riser [sic] of the Des Moines Register & Tribune; and the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award (2nd prize) to Albert R. Hunt of the Wall Street Journal.
- ↑ "S-H men honored for expose". El Paso Herald-Post. El Paso, Texas. May 2, 1977. p. 19.
- ↑ Collins, Nancy (May 1, 1978). "President's Regrets". The Washington Post.
- 1 2 Reuters (29 April 1979). "Utah Man Wins Story Prize". Courier Express. p. A-10.
{{cite news}}:|author=has generic name (help) - 1 2 UPI ARCHIVES (April 26, 1981). "The White House Correspondents Association presented the annual Merriman..." United Press International.
- 1 2 "Raymond Clapper, Other Journalism Prizes Are Awarded". Washington Post. April 25, 1982. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
- 1 2 UPI ARCHIVES (April 13, 1984). "Gregory Gordon of United Press International and Dennis Camire..." United Press International.
- 1 2 3 Randolph, Eleanor (April 28, 1985). "Post Reporter David Hoffman Wins 2 Awards". The Washington Post.
...the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award to Mark J. Thompson of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.... David Rogers of The Wall Street Journal ... also won a second place Clapper award.... Honorable mention for the Clapper award went to Fred Hiatt of The Washington Post....
- 1 2 "WOODWARD WINS JOURNALISM AWARD". The Washington Post. Apr 23, 1987.
Bob Adams of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch won first place in the Raymond Clapper Memorial Awards, with a prize of $2,000, for his coverage of U.S. policy in Central America. Thomas Moore and Michael York of Knight-Ridder Newspapers took second place, with a prize of $500, for a story on open-heart surgery.
- ↑ HYDE, JOHN (April 22, 1988). "Anthan wins Clapper Award for third time". The Des Moines Register. Des Moines, Iowa. p. 3.
Anthan is the first to win the Clapper award three times.
- ↑ Pfannenstiel, Brianne (Aug 18, 2016). "Former Register bureau chief, Pulitzer finalist George Anthan dies". Des Moines Register.
In 1988, he became the first three-time winner of the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for excellence in reporting for the same series of stories that made him a finalist for the Pulitzer.
- ↑ UPI ARCHIVES (April 29, 1989). "Two reporters honored with journalism awards". United Press International.
- ↑ "WHITE HOUSE GROUP HONORS POST REPORTER". The Washington Post. Apr 29, 1990.
The Raymond Clapper Memorial Award went to Bill Lambrecht of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for a series on the export of U.S. garbage.
- ↑ "JOURNALISM AWARDS ANNOUNCED". The Washington Post. Apr 28, 1991.
- 1 2 3 "10 JOURNALISTS HONORED WITH REPORTING PRIZES". The Washington Post. May 10, 1992.
The Raymond Clapper Memorial Award, worth $1,500, went to Bill Lambrecht of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for a series on waste dumping on American Indian reservations. Tom Squitieri of USA Today won second place, worth $500, for a series on Haiti. Philip A. Kuntz of Congressional Quarterly received an honorable mention for articles on the finances of Sen. Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore.).
- ↑ "2 POST REPORTERS WIN AWARD FOR ARTICLES ON UNITED WAY". The Washington Post. May 2, 1993.
- ↑ "DINNER AT THE NEW GENE CAFE: HOW GENETIC ENGINEERING IS CHANGING WHAT WE EAT, HOW WE LIVE, AND THE GLOBAL POLITICS OF FOOD BY BILL LAMBRECHT". Kirkus Reviews. May 19, 2010.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter's remarkable survey (winner of the 1998 Raymond Clapper Award) of the history, promise, and unknown dangers of genetically modified foods.
- ↑ "Bob Davis: Former Senior Editor, The Wall Street Journal". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved Nov 20, 2023.
n 2000, he was awarded the Raymond Clapper award for Washington reporting for coverage of the White House negotiations with China over the World Trade Organization.
- ↑ Pearl, Daniel (Jun 24, 2002). "About the Author and Editor". At Home in the World: Collected Writings from The Wall Street Journal. Simon & Schuster. p. 279. ISBN 9780743244152.
- ↑ "IRE News" (PDF). The IRE Journal. Investigative Reporters and Editors. May–June 2002. p. 42.
- ↑ "Reporting on National Defense Prize 2009". Gerald R. Ford Foundation. Jun 1, 2009.
In 2002 and 2005, Jaffe won the Raymond Clapper Award for Washington coverage.
- ↑ Ritea, Steve (Aug–Sep 2004). "Going It Alone: Accolades now come to Knight Ridder for its prescient reports expressing skepticism about claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction". American Journalism Review.
- ↑ "Knight Ridder journalists honored for stories on war planning". McClatchy DC. February 4, 2004. Retrieved August 5, 2018.
- ↑ DEFENSE NEWS (Feb 4, 2004). "UPI's Benjamin honored for Army reporting". United Press International.
- ↑ "Reporting on National Defense Prize 2009". Gerald R. Ford Foundation. Jun 1, 2009.
In 2002 and 2005, Jaffe won the Raymond Clapper Award for Washington coverage.
- ↑ "Knight Ridder wins journalism honors". Knight-Ridder Newspapers. March 10, 2006.
The award committee judges said the investigation, 'Discharged and Dishonored,' showed that the Department of Veterans Affairs 'is failing miserably in its service to America's veterans.'
- ↑ KRAUSS, CLIFFORD (Oct 14, 2007). "St. Pete Times Invests In In-Depth Reporting". The Ledger. New York Times News Service.
[The St. Petersburg Times] ... won the Raymond Clapper award for Washington reporting last year.
- ↑ "McClatchy cited for exposing U.S. attorney scandal". McClatchy Newspapers. March 8, 2008.
- ↑ "Charles Davis Named National Journalism Teacher of the Year by the Scripps Howard Foundation" (Press release). Missouri School of Journalism. March 13, 2009.
David Willman of the Los Angeles Times receives $10,000 and the Raymond Clapper award for revealing the FBI and Justice Department's botched anthrax investigations that ended with a suicide rather than an arrest and a trial. Finalists: Carolyn Lochhead, San Francisco Chronicle; and the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times.
- ↑ "Sarasota Herald-Tribune wins National Journalism Award biz reporting prize". TBN. March 12, 2010.
Thomas Frank of USA Today receives $10,000 and the Raymond Clapper Award for Washington Reporting for "Under the Radar," an investigation of a little-known Federal Aviation Administration tax on airline passengers' tickets that revealed how billions of dollars in proceeds are used to fund the world's largest private aviation network.
- ↑ "Scripps Howard Foundation: What's New". Archived from the original on 2012-03-24. Retrieved 2012-04-11.
- 1 2 3 "Scripps Howard Awards honor nation's best 2011 journalism" (PDF) (Press release). Scripps Howard Foundation. 2012-03-16. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
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