ABC News Wins Two Deadline Club Awards

By Brian Flood 

The New York Chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists handed out the 2015 Deadline Club Awards at the Waldorf Astoria on May 12.

ABC News took home two awards, the entire staff was honored for its TV spot news reporting of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. The other was for feature news story on children and guns called Young Guns.

ABC News staffers Diane Sawyer, David Muir, Claire Weinraub, David Sloan, Glenn Ruppel, Joseph Diaz, Muriel Pearson, Michael Mendelsohn, Joseph Rhee, Susan Welsh, Christine Romo, Keturah Gray, Mark Robertson, Mary Kathryn Burke and Lauren Pearle were all named as winners for the second award.

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The New York Times and New York Daily News were among the other big winners. The event included a conversation between Columbia Journalism School Dean Steve Coll and Reuters media correspondent Jennifer Saba.

Check out a complete list of winners here.

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