POST REPORTER DAVID HOFFMAN WINS 2 AWARDS

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February 20, 2013
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April 28, 1985
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/20: CIA-RDP90-00965R000605530035-8 wei,DnIINUlliN YUJI. ARTICLE A.FTLARED ON PIGS el 28 April 1985 Post Reporter David Hoffman By Eleanor Randolph Washington Post Stiff Writer David Hoffman, a White House correspondent for The Washington Post since 1982, was named winner of two awards last night at the White House .Correspondents As- sociation annual dinner. I ? . Hoffman won the Merriman. Smith Memorial Award, given for a . . story written on deadline, for an article written Sept. 27 when Pres- ident Reagan blamed 2 terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy annex 1 in Beirut .on the "near destruction" ? of U.S. intelligence during the Car- ter administration. The remark set off a furor among Democrats, and Reagan later called former presi- dent Jimmy Carter to explain that ?he had not meant to blame Carter 'or his administration for the terror- ? ist attack, in which two Americans ' were killed. Reagan's comment, which was not part of the prepared text, was made during a question-and-answer - period after a speech in Bowling Green, Ohio. Hoffman, a specialist in economic reporting before he began covering the White House, also won the Aldo Beckman Memorial Award for a series of budget-related stories from Nov. 13 to Dec. 11, 1984. Other White House correspon- dents awards included the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award to Mark J. Thompson of the Fort Worth Star- Telegram. Thompson wrote a series on a design flaw in Bell helicopters that resulted in the deaths of almost 250 U.S. servicemen. The series, which created a furor in Fort Worth where Bell is the sec- ond largest employer, also won Thompson the Pulitzer prize for public service last week. . , David Rogers of The Wall .Street Journal also won two prizes.' Rog- ers, who covers Capitol Hill for the . Journal, and Brooks Jackson won ? the Worth Bingham Memorial Prize for their article on "Money and Pol- ? itics." ?. - Second place winners of the Bingham award' were Chris Collins and John Hanchette of Gannett ? News Service for their series "The , . Vaccine Machine." Rogers also won a second? place Clapper award for his coverage of ; Con :ress, including his loreAlin story on invo vement in the ? mining of harbors in Nicaragua. ' Honorable mention for the Clip- per award went to Fred -Hiatt The Washington Post. for his..cov- ? erage.of the Pentagon. , The Worth Bingham awards are presented in memory .of Robert Worth Bingham, ? the publisher .of - The Louisville Courier-Journal who died in 1967. Beckman was a cor- respondent and bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune. Clapper was a Scripps-Howard correspondent who died in a._1944 plane crash while 'serving as 2 War -.reporter in the Pacific. Merriman Smith, who was White House correspondent for UN, was renowned as the wire service re- porter who first filed on the shoot- ing of President John F. Kennedy.. STAT Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/02/20: CIA-RDP90-00965R000605530035-8