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| Vol. 18, No. 10 | Nov. 5, 1998 |
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| Vol. 18, No. 10 | Nov. 5, 1998 |
Ryan Cormier, AS 2000, of Newark, editor-in-chief of The Review, has another award to add to his growing list of honors.
For taking first place in the 1998 Roy W. Howard National Reporting Competition, sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation, Cormier won $3,000 and a trip to Indiana University's School of Journalism for a seminar and awards ceremony on Oct. 5. He is the first UD student to win this award.
His winning entry, "Ethics in Today's Media," was a four-part series he wrote for The Review in 1997. He interviewed such well-known figures in journalism as Chuck Stone, award-winning, former UD journalism professor; Walter Isaacson, the managing editor of Time; and Jonathan Alter of NBC News and Newsweek. The series took more than four months to write.
In January, Cormier won the Society of Professional Journalists' Mark of Excellence award and a second place citation for in-depth reporting for the same series.
His coverage of the Thomas Capano case in The Review earned him a second-place Mark of Excellence award for spot news coverage.
On campus, Cormier was selected by UD journalism professors for the 1997 C. A. Tilghman Sr. Journalistic Award for the ethics series. The award honors the undergraduate who has written the best article in The Review during the academic year.
As an undergraduate, Cormier has gained experience in a variety of venues. He served as national/state news editor and then managing editor before becoming editor-in-chief of The Review; he was the campus news correspondent for Tribune Media Services and was an intern and freelancer for Delaware Today. This summer, he interned as a reporter on the city desk at the Wilmington News Journal, covering UD reaction to the Amy Grossberg case and a story about fast food on Newark's Main Street.
Cormier has another year at UD and said he hopes to act as an adviser to The Review and work part-time for the News Journal.
Meantime, he is enjoying being editor-in-chief of The Review. "It's terrific," he said. "We have a dedicated staff, and The Review is our newspaper. We have the freedom to make our own decisions about what to publish and what editorials to write and are taking advantage of this, as in the 'real world,' we probably won't have that leeway."
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