FORMER DISPATCH REPORTER HONORED IN D.C.
| By David Lore, Licking County Pro-Active Citizens - May 11th, 2009 at 5:44 pm EDT |
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"Good-Bye Columbus" seems to have worked out well for former Dispatch investigative reporter Mike Berens.
Watching C-Span coverage of the White House Correspondents' Dinner last Saturday, waiting for President Obama to do his stand-up, I was surprised to see/hear Berens called up to the podium along with a Seattle Times colleague to receive a major award.
There was Mike, who had earlier received two Pulitzer Prize nominations, shaking hands with President Obama and doing the grin-and-grip with Michelle Obama as well!
I first met Berens in the early 1980s when he was a Dispatch intern and I was already the "seasoned" veteran reporter. We first got to know each other during a road trip to Cleveland where I was supposed to show him the ropes. Even then, it was obvious Mike never needed any help from me.
Berens became the top gun on our investigative team until he was hired on by the Chicago Tribune in 1997, eventually moving on to the Seattle Times.
He and Seattle Times reporter Ken Armstrong received the Edgar A. Poe Memorial Award from the correspondents' association for their series on the deadly staph infection MRSA in Seattle-area hospitals.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009202191_award10m.html
Watching C-Span coverage of the White House Correspondents' Dinner last Saturday, waiting for President Obama to do his stand-up, I was surprised to see/hear Berens called up to the podium along with a Seattle Times colleague to receive a major award.
There was Mike, who had earlier received two Pulitzer Prize nominations, shaking hands with President Obama and doing the grin-and-grip with Michelle Obama as well!
I first met Berens in the early 1980s when he was a Dispatch intern and I was already the "seasoned" veteran reporter. We first got to know each other during a road trip to Cleveland where I was supposed to show him the ropes. Even then, it was obvious Mike never needed any help from me.
Berens became the top gun on our investigative team until he was hired on by the Chicago Tribune in 1997, eventually moving on to the Seattle Times.
He and Seattle Times reporter Ken Armstrong received the Edgar A. Poe Memorial Award from the correspondents' association for their series on the deadly staph infection MRSA in Seattle-area hospitals.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009202191_award10m.html
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