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About the awards

10.12.06

The Robert G. McGruder Awards for Diversity Leadership are named for a former executive editor of the Detroit Free Press and a diversity champion. He died in April 2002.

Other nominees for 2006 were:

(Over-75,000 circulation category)

  • Diversity Committee, The Arizona Republic, Phoenix
  • Doug Clancy, assistant managing editor/administration, The Record, Hackensack, N.J., and Herald News, West Paterson, N.J.
  • Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle
  • The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Miss.
  • The News Journal, Wilmington, Del.
  • The News-Press, Fort Myers, Fla.

    (Under-75,000 circulation category)

  • Statesman Journal, Salem, Ore.
  • The Daily Times, Farmington, N.M.
  • The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wis.
  • York (Pa.) Daily Record

    Judges were: Calvin Stovall, executive editor, Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, N.Y., and Stuart Wilk, consultant and retired managing editor, Dallas Morning News, representing APME; David Zeeck, executive editor, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash., and Charlotte Hall, editor, Orlando Sentinel, representing ASNE; last year's winners Saundra Keyes, professor at the Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada-Reno, and Randell Beck, executive editor, Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, S.D.; Aki Soga, business editor, The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, representing UNITY: Journalists of Color; and Kate Kennedy, representing the Freedom Forum, where she is director/partnerships and initiatives.