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- FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR, Page 20
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- A few weeks ago, our publisher used this space to boast a
- little about the string of prizes we've collected over the past
- year. This week I'm borrowing the space to talk about an award
- that the publisher herself just won. Lisa Valk, the first woman
- ever to hold the title of publisher at TIME, has won the 1992
- Matrix Award in recognition of her "outstanding career
- achievement" in the magazine industry. The Matrix, administered
- by the New York chapter of Women in Communications, is the
- nearest thing to an Oscar for female magazine executives (past
- winners include Gloria Steinem, Grace Mirabella, Tina Brown and
- Helen Gurley Brown). Congratulations, Lisa!
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- Congratulations are also in order for TIME's photo
- department, which took more than its share of top magazine
- honors in the 49th annual Pictures of the Year Competition,
- sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association and
- the University of Missouri School of Journalism. In an
- extraordinary display of strength, TIME photographers snapped
- up 18 awards -- including Magazine Photographer of the Year to
- Christopher Morris for his coverage of civil war in Yugoslavia
- and a first-place prize in the Magazine Picture Story category
- to Anthony Suau for his photo essay on the persecution of the
- Kurds.
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- Next week the winners of the prestigious National Magazine
- Awards will be announced. It is not unusual for one or two TIME
- stories to be named as finalists. But this year we were
- nominated in three different categories -- three times as many
- as either of the other weekly newsmagazines. Barbara Ehrenreich
- was named for three of her TIME Essays. This follows nicely on
- last year's awards, when her colleague Lance Morrow was
- nominated in the same category. Senior writer Eugene Linden was
- singled out for his Sept. 23, 1991, cover story on the knowledge
- lost when ancient tribes are assimilated into the modern world.
- And associate editor Richard Behar was cited for his May 6,
- 1991, expose of the Church of Scientology. We're proud of them
- all.
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- -- Henry Muller
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