If there is something most journalists have in common it’s this: we love donning awards among ourselves (from state newspaper associations to the Pulitzer Prize) and then getting rip-roaring drunk after award ceremonies.
I got to continue this tradition last night at the North Dakota Newspaper Association annual convention dinner, where I was awarded the Rookie Reporter of the Year award. It was a nice evening, complete with a free steak and three hours of fellow newspaper folks patting each other on the back. But the best part of the night wasn’t the award, or the steak (too well-done), it was the booze-soaked conversations we journalists had at the bar following the dinner. If you really want to know what we reporters and editors think about politics, religion, or whatever, simply visit the nearest bar by any hotel hosting a journalism conference in the nation and eavesdrop. Regardless, cheers to the fellow reporters and newspapers that earned their honors this year.
The monolith!
2 Comments
May 10, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Well deserved!!! Cheers!
May 13, 2009 at 3:08 am
Very cool!