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Kansas City Star Reporters Win Top Honor in Detroit Press Club Foundation's Wheel Awards Automotive Journalism Competition
DEARBORN, Mich., May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The Detroit Press Club Foundation
(DPCF) presented its 2008 International Wheel Awards for excellence in
automotive journalism at the Automotive Hall of Fame this evening.
The top honor, the Golden Wheel Award, went to reporters Mike Casey and
Rick Montgomery of The Kansas City Star for their story "Fatal Failures."
According to the judges at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern
University, led by Senior Assistant Dean Richard Roth, the story "is an
excellent example of what it means to discover the news. One nugget buried in
a database caused these reporters to analyze 1.9 million records compiled by
the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and discover that no fewer
than 1,400 people were killed from 2001 to 2006 because the front-seat
passenger air bags did not deploy during front-end crashes. This exhaustive
reporting exercise, and the clear, compelling writing that told the story,
cannot bring back the 1,400 lives lost, but it surely will have saved many
lives in the future. It's the best of what journalism can be."
First-place winners in various categories included Mark Phelan, Detroit
Free Press; Scott Burgess, The Detroit News; Bill Koenig, Doron Levin and
Jochen Eckel, Bloomberg News; Mary Beth Vander Schaaf, Mark Rechtin and Edward
Lapham, Automotive News; Tony Swan, Car and Driver; Eric Mayne, WardsAuto.com;
Joseph B. White, The Wall Street Journal Online; Glenn McClanan, Edmund's
Inside Line; Yolanda Vazquez, Motorweek/Maryland Public Television; Karin
Annus, Randy Martin, Mike Schneider, Antony Michels, Joe Valenti and Mary
Linnane, Bloomberg Television; and Jeff Gilbert, WWJ Newsradio 950.
For a complete list of honorees and judges' comments, visit the Wheel
Awards Web site at www.wheelawards.com.
The International Wheel Awards are managed by the Individual Communicators
Network.
DETROIT PRESS CLUB FOUNDATION is a 42-year-old, not-for-profit
organization, whose charter is to promote excellence in journalism.
AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME (www.automotivehalloffame.org) is the only
industry-wide means to honor the women and men of the global motor vehicle and
related industries.
INDIVIDUAL COMMUNICATORS NETWORK (ICN) (www.icnpr.net) is a broadly based,
not-for-profit collaboration of individual communications professionals.
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