Interactive and Print Journalism Awards
AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, DIGITAL CONTENT STRATEGY, TIME INC. CONTENT SOLUTIONS:
2010 - Merit Winner, SPD (Society of Professional Designers), for www.nysemagazine.com. In category: Digital, Rich Media/Infographics.
2009 - Award of Excellence, APEX Awards, New Web and Intranet Sites. For the creation of a Web companion site to the magazine, Merrill Lynch Advisor, http://mladvisor.ml.com.
AS SITE DIRECTOR, MEREDITH INTERACTIVE
2005 — Honorable Mention, Interactivity, MIN Media Industry Awards. To Ladies’ Home Journal Online (LHJ.com) for Try-a-Hairstyle and Bra Sizer tools.
2004 — Honorable Mention, Interactivity, MIN Media Industry Awards. To Ladies’ Home Journal Online (LHJ.com), for Recipe Center.
2003 — Webawards, Standard of Excellence honors. To Better Homes and Gardens Online (BHG.com) and Ladies’ Home Journal Online (LHJ.com).
2003 — Forbes’ Magazine Best of the Web, Annual Citations. To Better Homes and Gardens Online (BHG.com): First place, Gardening and Decorating; Third place, Home Improvement.
2003 — First Place, MIN Media Industry Awards. To BHG.com for overall excellence.
2002 — Outstanding Achievement, Web Marketing Association. To Ladies’ Home Journal Online.
2002 — Forbes’ Magazine Best of the Web, Annual Citations. To BHG.com: First place, Decorating.
AS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, SCHOLASTIC INC.
2000 — Finalist, The Golden Lamp Award, Educational Press Association of America. Science World (circ. 378,000). Magazine was one of four finalists of 200 entries to win the top honor for magazines for children in the United States.
2000 — First Prize, How-to-Feature, Educational Press Association of America. SuperScience, a magazine for 3rd-6th-graders. For Toy-Tester, a poster teaching students the scientific method.
1999 — Parent’s Guide To Children’s Media. Science World (circ. 366,000). Magazine received the top honor of more than 300 nominees in this competition to recognize the best product for children among magazines, video products, CD-ROMS and books.
1999 — Finalist, The Golden Lamp Award, Educational Press Association of America. Science World. Magazine was one of four finalists of 200 entries to win the top honor for magazines for children in the United States.
1999 — Runner-Up, Most Improved Publication, EdPress Association. Scholastic News/Upper Grades (circ. 2 million). Magazine was one of three finalists of hundreds of entries to name the most improved publication over a two-year period, with focus on editorial content and design.
1999 — 7 Distinguished Achievement Awards, EdPress Association. Magazines under my supervision at Scholastic received 5 awards in a range of editing and art & design categories. Science World honors for best poster series.
1998 — Parent’s Choice Honors. Science World. Magazine received the single top honor out of more than 300 nominees.
1998 — 7 Distinguished Achievement Awards, Educational Press Association of America. Magazines under my supervision at Scholastic received 7 awards in a range of editing and art & design categories.
1997 — Parent’s Choice Silver Award. Science World was one of eight winners nationally in this magazine competition that honors editorial and artistic excellence among thousands of children’s/teen magazines, games, CD-ROMs and other products.
1997 — 6 Distinguished Achievement Awards, Educational Press Association of America. Magazines under my supervision at Scholastic received 6 awards in a range of editing, writing and art & design categories.
1996 — 10 Distinguished Achievement Awards, Educational Press Association of America. Magazines under my supervision at Scholastic received 10 awards in a range of editing, writing and art & design categories.
AS A REPORTER AND COLUMNIST AT NEWSDAY / NEW YORK NEWSDAY AND A FREELANCE WRITER
1995 — First Prize, Beat Reporting. Newswomen’s Club of New York, Front Page Awards. For transportation coverage in New York Newsday, with citation to a series of stories on the 54,000 subway delays in 1994. Based on extensive computerized database analysis; project presented a line-by-line review for consumers.
1994 — Third Place, New York State Associated Press Contest. For Continuing Coverage, large newspapers. For a series of New York Newsday stories about the New York City taxi industry, including a probe on the TLC’s failure to discipline cab drivers for dangerous traffic violations. Series led to a wide group of changes in the monitoring of the taxicab industry by the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, including stiff new penalties approved by the Legislature for taxi drivers convicted of Driving While Intoxicated or Driving Under the Influence.
1994 — Distinguished Achievement Award, How-to Feature, Adult categories. Educational Press Association of America. For “155 A+ Tips,” a Family Circle magazine back-to-school piece offering tips on turning mediocre students into motivated achievers.
1994 — Honorable Mention, Benjamin Fine Journalism Awards, National Association of Secondary School Principles, magazine category. For Family Circle back-to-school piece.
1993 — Distinguished Achievement Award, How-to Feature. Educational Press Association of America. For “175 A+ Tips,” a Family Circle magazine back-to-school piece offering tips on preparing a child for each of the elementary school grades.
1992 — Pulitzer Prize. Local Reporting. Led reporting of all legal and court matters in the August, 1991 fatal subway crash at Union Square. Executed detailed news and feature stories analyzing charges of manslaughter and murder against motorman Robert Ray. Pulitzer awarded to reporting team.
1990 — First Prize. Newswomen’s Club of New York, Front Page Awards. Series category. For “My Year as a Teacher,” a nine-part New York Newsday series detailing my experiences teaching eighth-grade math at a Brooklyn junior high school.
1989 — First Prize. New York Press Club, Feature Writing. For “My Year as a Teacher.”
1989 — Grand Prize. National Awards for Education Reporting, awarded by the Education Writers Association to the best of 17 first-prize winners in all broadcast and print categories. For “My Year as a Teacher.”
1988 — Second Prize. National Awards for Education Reporting, Series Category. For New York Newsday articles on the city public schools.
1988 — Peter Kihss Award for Outstanding Reporting on New York City Government. By the Fund for the City of New York. For coverage of the New York City Board of Education and the public schools during the 1986-87 and 1987-88 school years.
1987 — Grand Prize, National Awards for Education Reporting, by the Education Writers Association. Awarded to the best of 14 first-place winners in all broadcast and print categories. For a collection of New York Newsday stories on problems in the New York City public schools.
1987 — First Place, Golden Apple Awards Contest, News-feature writing. Presented by New York State United Teachers for excellence in coverage of education and the teaching profession. For a piece on the tedious process by which teachers were licensed in New York City. Led to extensive changes in the requirements for securing a New York City teaching license.
1985 — Third Place, Business-Finance, New York State Associated Press Association. For a series about Long Island vitamin makers who made misleading claims about the efficacy of their products.
1985 — Honorable Mention, Business-Finance, New York State AP Association. For a Newsday story about the failure of firms who received state Job Development Authority loans to produce promised jobs and failure of JDA to monitor firms’ progress.
1984 — Third Place, Business-Finance, New York State AP Association. For a Newsday feature on a Long Island firm that struggled to rebuild after a fire destroyed its inventory and records.
1983 — First Place & Jacqueline Z. Radin Memorial Award, Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Awards. Given to most promising female journalist in the New York City area with three years’ experience or less. For a Newsday Magazine story on the reasons drug companies shy from researching and manufacturing “orphan” drugs to treat rare diseases.
1981 — Second Place, Business Writing, New Jersey Press Association. For stories in The Home News about the growing pains of Church & Dwight Co., the maker of Arm & Hammer baking soda and other products.
MEREDITH INC. HONORS
2005 — One of three nominees from Interactive Media Group for Creative Excellence. For the redesign of MORE.com, a magazine companion Web site devoted to 40+ women.
2004 — One of three nominees from Interactive Media Group for Creative Excellence. For LHJ.com’s Plastic Surgery maxi-pack, a series of stories on the 10 most popular plastic-surgery procedures in the United States, with before-and-after photos of each procedure.
2003 — One of three nominees from Interactive Media Group for Creative Excellence. For LHJ.com’s “Try-a-Hairstyle,” an application that allows women to upload photos, try on hairstyles, change hair color and e-mail the results to a friend.
SCHOLASTIC INC. HONORS
1998 — One of four honorees named by executive vice president for enhancing the profitability and editorial quality of the Classroom Magazine group.
NEWSDAY HONORS
1994 — First place, Specialist-Beat Reporting. Annual Publisher’s Awards. For coverage of transportation in New York City.
1987 — Second place, Beat Reporting. Annual Publisher’s Awards. For coverage of the New York City public school system.
1984 — Second place, Feature Writing. Annual Publisher’s Awards. For a collection of feature stories, including a piece for The Newsday Magazine on female body builders.