S-R Wins Awards For Graphics, Stories

The Spokesman-Review won national awards this month for graphics and police reporting.

For the fourth year in a row, graphic artist Charles Waltmire has won a National Headliners Award. Waltmire’s illustrations won second place in this year’s contest, sponsored by the Press Club of Atlantic City, N.J.

He took firsts in 1994 and 1993 and third in 1992.

Waltmire’s latest work finished second to the Miami Herald’s graphics staff. The San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News’ staff won third place in the illustrations category.

Staff writer Bonnie Harris was named thirdplace winner of the 1995 Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting, a contest that drew 85 entries from across the country.

Harris was cited for “fine writing and good attention to detail” and for honing in on “offbeat angles.”

The award is named for Nakkula, who covered the police beat for 46 years at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver. He died in 1990.

The contest is sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado, the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Press Club.

First place went to Melvin Claxton, a reporter at The Virgin Island Daily News, for uncovering corruption in the criminal justice system.

Second place went to Larry Keller of The Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., while fourth place was awarded to Christopher Quinn of the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel.