Allen Wins Dirksen Award
Fresh off winning the Hume award, CQ’s Jonathan Allen has won the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting on Congress by the National Press Foundation, FishbowlDC has learned.
He won for his October 1, 2007, CQ Weekly cover package, “Manifest Disparity,” in which he explored the development of appropriations earmarks and the way they are doled out among Members of Congress.
John Cranford edited the piece and CQ researchers Rachel Bloom and Ryan Kelly provided a valuable assist.
The Dirksen Award was created in 1980 in honor of the renowned Republican Senate minority leader from Illinois.
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