NY Daily News wins 2 top National Headliner Awards; broadcasters in DC, Indy also honored
By Bruce Shipkowski, APWednesday, March 24, 2010
NY Daily News wins 2 top National Headliner Awards
TRENTON, N.J. — The New York Daily News has won two top honors in the 76th annual National Headliner Awards.
The newspaper won grand awards in the news and photo divisions for its coverage of a pilot’s safe landing of a crippled US Airways jetliner in the Hudson River in January 2009, dubbed the Miracle on the Hudson.
Broadcasters WTOP Radio in Washington, D.C., and WTHR-TV in Indianapolis also were honored Wednesday with grand awards, the highest prizes given as part of the national journalism contest run by The Press Club of Atlantic City, N.J.
The Headliner Awards were first handed out in 1934, making the competition one of journalism’s oldest.
Each of the four grand awards announced this week comes with a $1,500 prize.
