Los Angeles Times editorial writer Robert Greene has been awarded this year\u2019s Walker Stone Award for \u201coutstanding achievement in editorial writing\u201d by the Scripps Howard Foundation. <\/p>\n
The award announced Friday is one of several accolades presented by the foundation each year to honor \u201cthe best work in the communications industry and journalism education.\u201d Greene\u2019s award was for editorials he wrote in 2009.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was very excited and I felt honored and humbled,\u201d Greene said after learning of the honor. \u201cIt\u2019s especially interesting to win an award as an editorial writer, because editorials are not bylines. You are writing on behalf of the paper. It\u2019s gratifying to be recognized for that, but it\u2019s humbling to be writing on behalf of the entire editorial board, which in a sense is writing on behalf of the entire Times.\u201d<\/p>\n
Entries for the editorial writing award are judged on \u201cgeneral excellence, quality of writing, forcefulness, creativity and importance to the public interest,\u201d according to the Scripps Howard Foundation website.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a very difficult time for California and all Californians,\u201d said Greene. \u201cIt\u2019s important that there be a very serious conversation about what we do. It\u2019s our job as editorial writers to be part of, and when we can, to lead that conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Greene, 50, who has covered California state government for 18 years, was able to efficiently explain the budget crisis to readers, while advocating for solutions that were \u201creasonable and humane, but that dealt squarely and honestly with the hard choices facing the state,\u201d said Nick Goldberg, the Times\u2019 editorial page editor.<\/p>\n
He praised Greene as \u201cthe driving force\u201d behind much of the political coverage on the editorial pages. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a great reporter and a terrific, thoughtful analyst who knows how government really works,\u201d Goldberg said. \u201cHis editorial series on this year\u2019s state budget crisis — and on the need for dramatic political reform in California\u00a0— was clear, trenchant and intellectually honest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Greene joined The Times in 2006, following stints at LA Weekly and the Metropolitan News-Enterprise. His job at the Times was his first writing editorials.<\/p>\n
Other papers to win Scripps Howard Foundations awards for 2009 included the New York Times for commentary and environmental reporting; the Associated Press for breaking news and photojournalism news; and the Philadelphia Daily News for investigative reporting.<\/p>\n
— Ann M. Simmons <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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