2007
C.B. Blethen
Memorial Award Winners
DISTINGUISHED
DEADLINE REPORTING
(under 50,000 circulation)
First place: The Daily Herald staff for "Election
day floods"
Second place: Idaho Press-Tribune for "Gruesome
day" by Mike Butts, Christin Runkle, Dan Black
(over 50,000 circulation)
First place: The Oregonian staff for
"Search for the missing Kim family"
Second place: The Seattle Times staff for "Capitol
Hill shootings: 7 dead after rampage"
DISTINGUISHED
FEATURE WRITING
(under 50,000 circulation)
First place: The Columbian for "Staying in the eye
of the storm" by Brian Hendrickson
Second Place: The Daily Herald for
"A place of happiness & peace" by Yoshiaki
Nohara
(over 50,000 circulation)
First place: Seattle
Post-Intelligencer for "A life in the balance" by Carol Smith
Second place- Tie: Seattle
Post-Intelligencer for "Taming a defiant mind" by
Tracy Johnson
The News Tribune for "A case of identity
theft" by Sean Robinson
DISTINGUISHED
ENTERPRISE REPORTING
(under 50,000 circulation)
First place: The Bulletin for "Changing
Oregon: our shifting political landscape" by James
Sinks, Susan Goodwin
Second place: The Daily Herald
for "Worldwide assembly line" by Bryan Corliss
(over 50,000 circulation)
First place: The Seattle Times
for "Chihuly Inc." series by Sheila Farr,
Susan Kelleher
Second place: The News Tribune
for "In South Korea, workers race to finish bridge
deck on time",
"Men among giants" by
Rob Carson
DISTINGUISHED
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
(under 50,000 circulation)
First place: Tri-City Herald for "Dollars
for Deals" by John Trumbo
Second place: The Olympian
for "The old brewery" by Christian Hill
(over 50,000 circulation)
First place: The Seattle Times staff for "Your
courts, their secrets" series
Second
place: The Oregonian for "Disabled Charities"
series by Jeff Kosseff, Bryan Denson, Les Zaitz
DISTINGUISHED
COVERAGE OF DIVERSITY
(under 50,000 circulation)
First place: Idaho State
Journal for "This solitary life" series by Dan
Boyd
Second place: Tri-City Herald for "Farmworkers
becoming their own boss" by Sara Schilling, Elena
Olmstead
(over 50,000 circulation)
First place: Anchorage Daily
News for "New faces, new city" by Julia
O'Malley
Second place: The Oregonian for "Returned
to Guatemala" by Esmeralda Bermudez
Debby
Lowman Award for
DISTINGUISHED REPORTING OF
CONSUMER AFFAIRS
(open
competition)
First
place: The Seattle Times for "Id Theft; you have to
keep proving you are innocent" series
by Jolayne Houtz
Second
place: Seattle Post-Intelligencer for "The foreclosure
'rescue' trap" series by Phuong Cat Le
