| Abstract: | Apresentation was made by Kenneth E. Clark, President of the APF to Dave Smith, John Sharnik, and Harry Morgan, the 1969 National Media Award winners. This year awards were made in two areas: one for newspaper or magazine writing; one for superior radio or television broadcasting. The Committee selected Dave Smith of the Los Angeles Times to receive the newspaper-magazine award and John Sharnik and Harry Morgan of CBS News to share the broadcasting award. This article describes the professional accomplishments of these three men. The Committee selected Dave Smith for his work in the article, "Dark Valley of a Boy's Mind," an in-depth study of Benny Smith, who on November 22, 1966, entered a beauty parlor in Mesa, Arizona, and killed five women, wounding two others. The Foundation cites Dave Smith for outstanding newspaper reporting through a "creative history analysis." Co-winners John Sharnik and Harry Morgan were singled out for their outstanding work in the production of two hour-long telecasts: "The Farthest Frontier" (January 1967), a documentary on the enhancement of the human mind and treatment of mental illness through chemistry; and "LSD: The Spring Grove Experiment" (May 1969), an examination of the use of LSD in treating emotional illness. The APF cited the two for uncommon skill in probing highly complex subjects and presenting detailed but lucid reports. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
