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13-September-1996 
 
 
 
96340             Washington Post Reporter Wins  
                 Top Religion Newswriting Awards 
 
                     by Religion News Service 
 
WASHINGTON--Laurie Goodstein, national religion reporter for "The 
Washington Post," won the top two religion-writing awards for the second 
straight year in an annual contest sponsored by the Religion Newswriters 
Association. 
 
     Goodstein won the Templeton Reporter of the Year competition and the 
James O. Supple Memorial Award for distinguished newswriting on religion in 
1995. 
 
     The second-place winner of the Templeton is Richard Sheinin of the 
"San Jose Mercury News" in San Jose, Calif.  Religion News Service national 
correspondent Ira Rifkin won third place.  Mark O'Keefe of  "The Oregonian" 
in Portland, Ore., won an honorable mention in the Templeton. 
 
     In the Supple competition, Gustav Niebuhr of "The New York Times" won 
second place, and Sandi Dolbee of "The San Diego Union-Tribune" won third 
place.  Religion News Service's New Delhi correspondent Paul Murphy 
received an honorable mention in the Supple. 
 
     For the first time, the Religion Newswriters Association honored 
writers at medium-sized newspapers with the George Cornell Memorial Award. 
Susan Hogan/Albach, formerly of the "The State" in Columbia, S.C., and the 
"Duluth News-Tribune" in Duluth, Minn., won first place.  She is now with 
the "Minneapolis Star Tribune."  Eric Frazier of  "The Post and Courier" in 
Charleston, S.C., earned second place and Dennis Roberts of  "The Modesto 
Bee" came in third. 
 
     The Louis Cassels Memorial Award for excellence in religion 
newswriting for smaller newspapers was won by David Frisk of the "Ledger 
Dispatch" in Antioch, Calif.  Second place was awarded to Julia Duin, 
formerly of  "The Daily Times" in Farmington, N.M., and now with "The 
Washington Times."  Marcia Nelson of  "The Beacon News" in Aurora, Ill., 
came in third. 
 
     "The Dallas Morning News" won the Harold Schachern Award for the best 
religion section. "The Grand Rapids Press" of Grand Rapids, Mich., captured 
second and "The Daily Independent" of Ashland, Ky., came in third.  "The 
Home News and Tribune" of East Brunswick, N.J., received an honorable 
mention. 
 
     The awards were announced Aug. 31 at the organization's annual meeting 
in Evanston, Ill. 
 
     The Religion Newswriters Association, with some 200 members, includes 
religion writers who work for secular media in the United States and 
Canada. 

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