Economist’s Bennet, WSJ’s Morrow receive awards

The Fund for American Studies presented James Bennet of The Economist with the Kenneth Y. Tomlinson Award for Courageous Journalism and Lance Morrow of The Wall Street Journal with the Thomas L. Phillips Career Achievement Award on Tuesday at its awards dinner.

Bennet is Lexington columnist and a senior editor at The Economist. The award is given to honor his excellence in reporting and determination to present the truth. Formerly, Bennett was the editorial page editor of The New York Times, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, and an editor for Washington Monthly.

Morrow received his award for his significant contributions to the field of journalism throughout his distinguished career. Morrow is a contributing columnist at The Journal and former Time magazine editor and essayist. He was previously the editorial page editor of The New York Times, where he led the paper’s opinion department to two Pulitzer Prizes in four years, its first in more than a decade.

The recipients of the 2024-25 Joseph Rago Memorial Fellowship for Excellence in Journalism were also awarded.

For the first time since its creation in 2018, two journalists were awarded the fellowship – Jillian Lederman and Luke Lyman. Named after Joseph Rago, a Journal editorial board member who passed away in 2017, the Rago Fellowship awards two qualified aspiring journalists with a nine-month internship with The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page.