POST REPORTER DAVID HOFFMAN WINS 2 AWARDS

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 20, 2013
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: April 28, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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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
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