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2006 Awards Programs The ASA Media Awards recognize journalists whose work has had an exceptional impact on public awareness of issues related to aging at the local or regional levels. 2006 MEDIA AWARDS NATIONAL MEDIA
Ellen Schultz
New York, New York Ellen Schultz is a news editor in the Health & Science section of The Wall Street Journal. She continues her coverage of medical benefits and pensions and also works with other editors and reporters to broaden the Journal's coverage of the problems individuals face in the increasingly complicated financial world. In February 1990, Ms. Schultz joined the Journal as a reporter in New York, where she has covered personal finance, mutual funds, medical insurance and benefits. She was named a special writer in April 1995 and a news editor in June 2001. Prior to joining The Journal, Ms. Schultz covered personal investing at Fortune magazine from 1987 to 1990. Ms. Schultz has received dozens of awards for her coverage of pensions and retiree issues. In 2005, Ms. Schultz received her third George Polk Award for a series, with Journal colleague Theo Francis, on ways employers profit from retiree programs; she also won her second Gerald Loeb Award, and awards from the Scripps Howard Foundation, the National Press Club and others. In 2003, Ms. Schultz was a member of a team of Journal reporters awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting for an article on how companies hide executive compensation. In recent years, Ms. Schultz's coverage has also received honors from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) for a series on corporate scandals; from the New York Press Club for coverage of Enron; a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for an investigation into how companies profit from the deaths of workers on whom they hold life insurance; a James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism; and numerous awards from the Newswomen's Club of New York for articles in the sports writing, financial, and beat reporting. A San Francisco native, Ms. Schultz earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a master's degree from New York University, where she taught dozens of writing and journalism courses for more than decade.LOCAL & REGIONAL MEDIA 
Jane Glenn Haas
Irvine, California Jane Glenn Haas is a multi-media personality – a newspaper writer, national columnist, book author, television host, professional speaker and founder of WomanSage, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering, educating and fostering mentoring relationships among women at midlife. As a testimony to her vision, in less than two years, WomanSage has become a national organization reaching more than 6,000 women with regular e-mails, web site updates (www.womansage.com) and a newsletter. There are two established chapters and more than 20 in formation. Haas currently is researching the various ways women deal with multiple midlife crisis events – from loss of a job to divorce and widowhood. She has collected more than 3,500 surveys from midlife women worldwide talking about how their lives are different from their mother's. The survey is posted on the www.womansage.com web site. Haas is a writer for The Orange County Register specializing in issues involving people 50 and older. Her weekly column, “Our Time,” is distributed to 300 newspapers by Knight Ridder Tribune Syndicate. Twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, she has been honored for Excellence in Aging Reporting with the Hugh Downs Award of the International Longevity Center; the American Society on Aging Media Award; the American Medical Writers Association Rose Kushner Award; the American Heart Association C. Everett Koop Award; the Alzheimer's Association Rosemary Award, and many others. Her research on women at midlife already has led to coverage by TIME magazine, as well as The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and other publications. She was asked to be a featured writer in a special TIME report on women at midlife. She has appeared on the Today Show and was recently a featured speaker at the October Texas Governor's Conference for Women and the Xerox Women's Alliance. She is a speaker at a variety of local and national events, including panelist at the International Longevity Center in New York; featured speaker for AARP conventions and meetings; a regular presenter at the American Society on Aging; emcee and host for many local and state events. She is the author of Time of Your Life: Why Almost Everything Gets Better After Fifty (Seven Locks Press).The Ottawa Citizen Team: Editor: Rob Warner, Assistant Editor: Mike Shahin, Reporters: Ron Corbett, Andrew Duffy, Jennifer Jackson, Janice Kennedy, Pauline Tam and Bruce Ward, Photographers: Julie Oliver, Wayne Cuddington and Rod MacIvor, Assistant Photo Editor: Anita Murray, Chief Designer Editor: Sue McDonough, Designer: Jordan Juby
Irvine, California Rob Warner is City Editor of the Ottawa Citizen. His 18-year newspaper career began with his own startup community paper in 1987. He reported for community newspapers in Western Quebec and Eastern Ontario before moving to daily journalism, at the Windsor Star, in 1989. He joined the National Post in 1998 and began at the Citizen as Night News Editor in 2000. He has been City Editor since 2001. Mike Shahin is an Assistant City Editor at the Ottawa Citizen. After graduating from McGill and Concordia universities, he spent a year at the Sherbrooke Record, then came to the Citizen, where he has worked, since 1992, as a writer and an editor. In 1997, he was one of three journalists nominated for a National Newspaper Award in international reporting. Ron Corbett is a senior writer at the Ottawa Citizen. A National Newspaper Award winner, he is also a published author and broadcaster. He says his time spent at Canuck Place, featured in the series, included "some of the most moving days I have ever spent in this profession." Andrew Duffy, a Hamilton native and graduate of Carleton University, has worked for the Winnipeg Free Press, the Toronto Star, Southam News and the Ottawa Citizen during a 20-year newspaper career. He has won two National Newspaper Awards and, in 2004, the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy. Jenny Jackson is a senior writer specializing in faith and ethics. She graduated from Carleton University's journalism program cum laude and worked at the Vancouver Sun, Edmonton Journal and Canadian Press before joining the Ottawa Citizen. Janice Kennedy has been a feature writer and columnist with the Ottawa Citizen for 16 years. Her appreciation for the efforts of palliative care physicians and healthcare workers, inspired by first-hand observation in her family, was what drew her to the Citizen's special project. Pauline Tam has covered arts, business, technology and city news in her 10 years at the Ottawa Citizen. She is currently an education reporter and feature writer. Bruce Ward is a feature writer at the Ottawa Citizen. He also edits the weekly Guys' Page in the Style section. In 1983, he was a member of the Toronto Star's Ottawa bureau, which won a National Newspaper Award for coverage of the Liberal leadership race. Anita Murray is the Ottawa Citizen's Assistant Director of Photography. A graduate of Ryerson's School of Journalism, she has been with the Citizen for 17 years. Julie Oliver has been a photographer with the Ottawa Citizen for the past seven years. In her 15-year career as a photojournalist, she has won two National Newspaper Awards and a Canadian Nurses Association award, among others. Wayne Cuddington has been a photographer with the Ottawa Citizen since 1980. Rod MacIvor has been a Citizen photographer since 1980; he previously took pictures for UPI. He has won two National Newspaper Awards. Sue McDonough is Chief Design Editor at the Ottawa Citizen. She has worked at the Casper Star Tribune, in Wyoming, and at the Toronto Star, and also has experience in the field of graphic design for advertising. Jordan Juby has been with the Ottawa Citizen since 1977, working in a variety of positions, including as reporter, assistant news editor, assistant sports editor and assistant director of design. As a designer, he uses his experience to sharpen the presentation of complex news packages. Honorable Mention – National Media 
Joseph Shapiro
Washington, DC Joseph Shapiro is a correspondent on NPR's Science and Health Desk. He covers health, aging, disability, and children and family issues and his stories are heard on NPR's news shows, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Day to Day. His reporting on aging has covered public policy issues including Medicare's coverage of prescription drugs and power wheelchairs to features such as his two-part series on an attempt to improve nursing home care. In 2005, Shapiro did a series of profiles on soldiers and Marines returning from Iraq with serious healthcare problems. Before joining NPR in November 2001, Joe spent 19 years at U.S. News & World Report, where he wrote about healthcare and medicine, aging and long-term care, disability and chronic illness, children and families, poverty, civil rights, and other social policy issues. He also served as the magazine's Rome bureau chief, White House correspondent, and Congressional reporter. Shapiro is the author of NO PITY: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement. |
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