Berens, Aleccia win National Press Club awards
Two AHCJ members have won 2009 National Press Club awards.
The Seattle Times‘ Michael Berens and Ken Armstrong won the newspaper Consumer Journalism Award for newspapers for their project about methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), “Culture of Resistance.”
An MSNBC.com team that includes JoNel Aleccia won the Joan M. Friedenberg Online Journalism Award for “The Elkhart Project,” an ongoing look at Elkhart, Ind., intended to provide perspective on the national recession.
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