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2003 Wilbur Award winners announced
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March 24, 2003

2003 Wilbur Award winners announced 

Prestigious prizes given to best religious programs in various media 

by Eric C. Shafer
Director of Communication
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

INDIANAPOLIS - The Boston Globe has been chosen the best major market
newspaper by the Religion Communicators Council (RCC) in its annual Wilbur
Awards competition. 
	
Named for the Rev. Marvin C. Wilbur, a Presbyterian minister, the Wilbur
Awards are presented each year by the Religion Communicators Council for
excellence by secular media in featuring religious issues, themes and values.

	
Anne Ryder, co-anchor of WHTR-TV news in Indianapolis and a former Wilbur
Award winner, will host the awards ceremony April 26 at the Artsgarden in
Indianapolis in conjunction with the Religion Communicators Council's 2003
convention.  
	
The Globe's religion reporter, Michael Paulson, will be awarded the Wilbur
for his stories about the clergy sexual abuse crisis of 2002.  Paulson was
part of a team of eight Globe reporters that collaborated on an ongoing
series, "Crisis in the Catholic Church," about the Roman Catholic Church's
handling of sexually abusive priests.  
	
For the fifth year in a row, The Dallas Morning News has won the Wilbur for
newspaper religion sections.  
	
Tracey O'Shaughnessy has won her second Wilbur for her "Sunday Reflections"
column in The Republican-American newspaper of Waterbury, CT.  
	Other winners in the newspaper category include Diana Keough for her
Cleveland Plain Dealer article, "United They Stand," and Matt Detrich for his
photography, "A Child Shall Lead Them," in the Indianapolis Star.
	
The televison drama Wilbur, awarded to The West Wing in 2001 and 2002, goes
this year to another Warner Brothers Television and John Wells production,
Third Watch, for its episode titled "Unforgiven."  
	
Other television winners include Religion & Ethics Newsweekly for its series
"Exploring Religious America"; WPBT Channel 2, North Miami, Fla., for its
news feature "Faith: One Year After 9/11"; and the National Film Board of
Canada for its documentary "The Pacifist Who Went to War."
	
Other Wilbur winners are David Van Biema for his article "The Legacy of
Abraham" in Time magazine; Jef Mallett for his United Media comic strip
Frazz; Rodale Press for its book Taking Back Islam: American Muslims Reclaim
Their Faith; and WHYY FM 91 radio in Philadelphia for "Been There, Done That"
with Marty Goldensohn.

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