Times Receives Journalism Award

Three newspapers, two magazines, two television programs and six journalists have been presented with the Washington Journalism Review’s “Best in the Business” awards.

Among the winners was the Los Angeles Times, designated “the newspaper to watch for the ‘90s.”

In accepting the award Thursday night at the National Press Club, The Times’ Washington Bureau chief, Jack Nelson, noted that the paper already has 24 foreign bureaus, is adding bureaus in Brussels and Eastern Europe and is adding staff to its bureaus in Tokyo and Mexico City.

The magazine noted recent format changes designed to make the paper more readable, an expanded “P.M. Final” afternoon edition and a number of special sections such as those on the Bay Area Quake and the turmoil in China.

The awards were based on the opinions of more than 450 readers who responded to an annual poll.

In the category of print media, other winners were: Chicago Tribune columnist Mike Royko, best newspaper writer; the Washington Post, best newspaper for investigative journalism; USA Today, best-designed newspaper; Mother Jones, best magazine for investigative journalism, and Newsweek, best-designed magazine.

Among the winners in the broadcast category were: ABC’s Peter Jennings, best network TV anchor; ABC News, best foreign coverage in television news; CBS’s “60 Minutes,” best TV magazine show; NBC’s Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley, best morning news team, and CBS News’ Charles Osgood, best radio reporter.