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Backdating of stock options, coal mine safety win National Press Club awards

The Wall Street Journal series on backdating of stock options, which two months ago received a Pulitzer Prize, as well as the Louisville Courier-Journal’s examination of safety of coal mines are among the winners of the 2007 National Press Club Awards.

The Washington-based NPC, the world’s most renowned press club, evaluated 193 entries in a total of 25 categories.

James Carroll of the Courier-Journal won the Washington Correspondence Award for his articles on coal mine safety. Carroll used databases and shoeleather reporting to examine unpaid fines levied on mines by federal safety regulators. His stories prompted Congress to give the Mine Safety and Health Administration new powers to collect fines.

The Journal team of Charles Forelle, James Bandler, Mark Maremont and Steve Stecklow won the Consumer Journalism Award for its series exploring the abuses of stock options in pay packages for corporate executives.

The other winners can be found here. The awards will be formally presented at a dinner on Monday, July 16, at the National Press Club, which has 3,500 members who work in journalism and communications.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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