November 2003
Consumers Union awards won: 1999-1990
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| 1999 | |
| · | Consumer Reports was chosen by a national panel of top national media reporters, editors and leaders in journalism education as one of the nation's 25 most important magazines. The results of the poll were published in the January 25 issue of Impression, the online magazine sponsored by the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism. The citation stated: "With no ads and seemingly no agenda, Consumers Reports, as one voter notes, still seems to be 'a beacon of impartiality in a world of marketing run mad.' While many magazines that purport to be consumer guides have too many bedfellows to count, Consumer Reports is concerned only with praising good products and exposing inferior ones. It's a magazine that's still trusted." |
| · | Consumer Reports was selected as a finalist for the 1999 National Magazine Awards in the category of Personal Service, sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME). The Personal Service award is for articles that clearly and compellingly deliver information to help readers take action to improve the quality of their lives. The article "Medicare: New Choices, New Worries," was written by senior editor Trudy Lieberman. |
| · | Zillions was awarded a Distinguished Achievement Award for the best feature article for children by the Association of Educational Publishers for its article "Good Enough to Eat?" The May/June 1998 article was about the tricks food stylists use to make foods look very good in ads. |
| 1998 | |
| · | Smoke Alarm: The Unfiltered Truth About Cigarettes won the Ace Award for Children's Educational/Informational Special. Presented by the National Academy of Cable Programming, the award recognizes excellence in original programming achievement at both the national and regional level. |
| · | Smoke Alarm also won the Parents' Choice Gold Award. |
| · | Editorial Director Jackie Leo was elected president of the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) for a two-year term. ASME is the professional organization for chief and senior editors of American magazines. |
| · | Consumer Policy Institute Project Manager Barbara Warren received an award from the US EPA in recognition of outstanding leadership in the design for the Environment Garment and Textile Care Program. |
| · | A Zillions article, "Test Your Backpack," from the September/October 1997 issue, won the Educational Press Association of America's distinguished Achievement Award in the children's How-To Feature category. |
| · | Another Zillions article, "The No-Fail Guide to Taking Tests," from the May/June 1997 issue, won the Educational Press Association of America's distinguished Achievement Award in the children's How-To Feature category. |
| · | Dr. R. David Pittle, CU's Technical Director, received the 1998 Margaret Dana Award from the American Society for Testing and Materials for "his leadership, innovation, devotion, and personal contributions toward the development and implementation of safety and performance standards for consumer products." |
| · | Trudy Lieberman, senior editor, received an honorable mention from the National Press Club in the Consumer Journalism Award Periodical category. |
| 1997 | |
| · | Consumer Reports TV News won an award for "Consumer Reports Best Travel Deals" which aired on The Travel Channel. The award is a Gold Cindy from the Association of Visual Communicators in the category of Consumer Awareness. |
| · | Trudy Lieberman received the American Society on Aging's 1997 ASA Media Award for national publications for her three-part nursing home series. |
| · | Smoke Alarm: The Unfiltered Truth About Cigarettes, won two awards: the first place Gold Camera Award for Children's Programming from the U.S. International Film and Video Festival, and a Gold Clarion from the Westchester Chapter of Women in Communications. |
| 1996 | |
| · | Consumer Reports was nominated for a 1996 National Magazine Award. The nomination, in the category of personal service, was for Trudy Lieberman's three-part series on nursing homes (August, September, and October 1995). |
| · | Consumer Reports received the President's Prize of the American Medical Association for our January 1995 report, "Secondhand Smoke-Is it a Hazard?" |
| · | The Brooklyn College Alumni Association awarded Rhoda H. Karpatkin with its Alumna of the Year Award. |
| · | Consumer Reports three-part series, "Nursing Homes: When a Loved One Needs Care," [August - October 1995] written by Trudy Lieberman, received this year's Deadline Club Award for best series, investigative reporting. This award was presented by the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. |
| 1995 | |
| · | The American Public Health Association (APHA) awarded Consumers Union its Presidential Citation for contribution to the advancement of public health and for advocating health-care reform. |
| · | Zillions TV was presented with a Gold Medal from the National Parenting Publications Awards in the Children's Video category. |
| · | Zillions won a number of awards for excellence in educational publishing from the Educational Press Association for the following articles: "Mail-Order Merchandise," "Step Right Up," "The Sneaky Sell," and "Video Game Violence." |
| · | Consumer Reports received the President's Prize of the American Medical Association for its 1995 report, "Second Hand Smoke-Is it a Hazard?" written by assistant editor Nancy Pappas. |
| · | Consumer Reports three part series, "Nursing Homes: When a Loved One Needs Care, " [August - October 1995] written by Trudy Lieberman, received an Honorable Mention Award in the National Press Club's Consumer Journalism Awards. |
| · | Consumer Reports was nominated for the 1995 Santa Clara County Psychological Association Annual Award for its November story, "Mental Health: Does Therapy Help?" |
| 1994 | |
| · | Barbara Warren, Project Director for the Consumer Policy Institute's Toxic Air pollution Project, was awarded a Women's History Month Commendation from Mark Green, the New York City Public Advocate. |
| · | Consumer Reports on Health won a Russell L. Cecil medical Journalism Award, given annually by the Arthritis Foundation. |
| · | Zillions has won two awards from the Educational Press Association for excellence in children's publishing for: "The Baby-sitters Survival Guide," and "3,000 Ads a Day." |
| · | Consumer Reports (Trudy Lieberman) won First Place for the best consumer journalism in the National Press Club's Consumer Journalism Awards for the fourth year in a row. |
| · | Zillions TV was presented with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Gold Award for Best Children's Program. Zillions TV was also awarded the Silver Cindy Award, along with a Special Achievement Award for Artistic Crafts, from the Association of Visual Communicators. |
| 1993 | |
| · | Consumer Reports senior editor Trudy Lieberman won a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award. |
| · | Trudy Lieberman also was awarded a grant from the John J. McCloy Fund of the American Council on Germany to study health care in Germany. |
| · | Trudy Lieberman and Greg Daugherty were awarded the Deadline Club Award for excellence in investigative reporting for the February, 1992, Consumer Reports article "Is Our Fish Fit to Eat?" from the Society of Professional Journalists. |
| · | Trudy Lieberman was also awarded the James Beard Award for News and Investigative Reporting about food and beverages. |
| · | Rochelle Green won the Howard W. Blakeslee Award in science writing for her October, 1992, Consumer Reports cover story "Are You Eating Right?" from the American Heart Association. |
| · | The Louisiana Consumers League presented its twenty-fifth anniversary award to Mary Griffin, Insurance Counsel in the Washington Office, in recognition of "outstanding service of consumer interests." |
| · | Barbara Warren Chinitz, Project Coordinator for the Consumer Policy Institute's Toxic Air Pollution Project, was honored as "Environmentalist of the Year" by the New York State Environmental Planning Lobby, a statewide citizen's organization. |
| · | Trudy Lieberman won first place in the magazine category of the National Press Club's Consumer Journalism Award for the February 1992 Consumers Reports article "Is Our Fish Fit to Eat?." |
| · | Zillions was presented with the Golden Lamp award (a Distinguished Achievement Award) from the Educational Press Association of America, given for excellence in educational journalism. |
| · | Consumer Reports assistant editor Rochelle Green won the American Heart Association's Medical Reporting Award for the January 1992 article, "Can You Live Longer?" |
| · | Rochelle Green was also awarded the Institute of Food Technologists' Food Science Writing Award for her October 1992 Consumer Reports cover story, "Are You Eating Right?" |
| · | The July 1992 report, "Our Wasted Health Care Dollars," received the Front Page Award for Specialized Writing-Science and Medicine from the Newswomen's Club of New York. |
| · | The National Magazine Awards selected Consumer Reports as a finalist in the Public Interest category for its 1992 report "Wasted Health Care Dollars." |
| 1992 | |
| · | Consumer Reports was one of the six finalists for a National Magazine Award in the General Excellence Category for Trudy Lieberman's June Consumer Reports article "An Empty Promise to the Elderly." |
| · | Consumer Reports senior editor, Trudy Lieberman, won her third National Press Club Consumer Journalism Award for her June 1991 story about long-term health care, "An Empty Promise to the Elderly." |
| · | Zillions was awarded with an Educational Press Award. |
| · | Consumer Reports on Health received an honorable mention in "best instructional reporting" from the Newsletter Publishers Foundation. |
| · | Rhoda H. Karpatkin was presented with the Phillip Hart Distinguished Consumer Service Award by the Consumer Federation of America at its annual meeting. |
| · | Consumer Reports assistant editor Nancy Pappas won the Science-in-Society Journalism Award of the National Association of Science Writers for two Consumer Reports articles: "Laser Surgery: Too Much, Too Soon?" in the August 1991 issue and "Pushing Drugs to Doctors" in the February 1992 issue. |
| · | Consumer Policy Institute staff member Barbara Warren received two awards for her work on toxic air pollution. The Staten Island Advance named her a "Woman of Achievement". The statewide citizens Environmental Coalition also gave her its annual award for activism on toxics. |
| 1991 | |
| · | Consumer Reports received an award for Distinguished Achievement in Journalism from the University of Southern California Journalism Alumni Association, an honor that usually goes to individual journalists. |
| · | Consumer Reports also received a John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. This award was received for the August and September 1990 reports, "The Crisis in Health Insurance," written by senior editor Trudy Lieberman. |
| · | Consumer Reports received a First Place National Press Club award for the Best Consumer Journalism of 1990. |
| · | Consumer Reports received a Public Service Award from the New York State Optometric Association, Inc. for "Brilliant and informative articles appearing in Consumer Reports on Eyeglasses and Radial Keratotomy." |
| · | Zillions won two awards for excellence in educational publishing from the Educational Press Association of America. This is the fourth year in a row the association has honored the magazine. "Flat Broke," the February/March 1990 article written by associate editor Amy Nathan, won for how-to features. "The Pump" (August/September 1990), written by associate editor Moye Thompson, won for feature stories. |
| · | Zillions received an Honors Award from the Parents' Choice 1991 Magazine Awards. |
| 1990 | |
| · | Consumer Reports received a National Magazine Award for Personal Service journalism. The award (CR's third) honored the June 1989 report "Beyond Medicare," written by senior editor Trudy Lieberman. The NMA is sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME). |
| · | Zillions was awarded The George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contributions to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language for its article "Selling America's Kids: Commercial Pressures on Kids of the 90's." |
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