Congressional Quarterly today announced that CQ Politics reporter Jonathan Allen has been awarded the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting on Congress by the National Press Foundation.
Allen is the eighth CQ reporter to receive the coveted Dirksen Award since its inception in 1980. CQ has received more Dirksen Awards than any other media organization.
He won for his October 1, 2007, CQ Weekly cover package, “Manifest Disparity,” in which he explored the development of appropriations earmarks and the way they are doled out among Members of Congress. This multi-part cover story was the result of in-depth analysis and examination of earmarks from House-passed 2008 spending bills.
This marks the second recognition of Allen’s “Manifest Disparity” by the National Press Club, having won the Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism earlier this year.
Mercy House Executive Director Larry Haynes discusses homelessness with Orange County Register reporter Michael Mello for a recent article titled “Here’s How a Homeless Shelter Works.”Haynes believes preventing homlessness is easier than alleviating it once it’s already a problem. Mercy House’s shelters in Orange, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino counties helped more than 1,000 homeless last year. Continue reading ‘Client News: Mercy House Exec. Director Weighs in on Homelessness’
Here is an interesting perspective on marketing spend published today from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
With corporate managers under enormous pressure to control costs and maintain liquidity in the current credit crisis, advertising budgets often appear to be a dispensable luxury in the struggle to survive. Executives who succumb to that temptation, however, put the long-term future of their companies at risk, according to Wharton faculty and advertising experts. Continue reading ‘When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Don’t Skimp on Their Ad Budgets’
CQ today announced the the acquisition of Voxant’s broadcast transcripts media assets just on the heels of acquiring TrendTRACK 11 days earlier. Voxant’s broadcast transcripts media assets offer verbatim transcripts of programming that appears on CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, and other leading broadcast and cable news shows. The service also produces and distributes select verbatim transcripts of corporate earnings and shareholder relations events and calls.
Continue reading ‘Client News: Congressional Quarterly Gears up for New Administration Coverage with Two Acquisitions’
