Newsday reporter, photographer win 1st place for BNL series
Quick Read"Fallout, the Legacy of Brookhaven Lab in the Pacific" bring the paper and reporter Tom Maier and photographer John Paraskevas top honors.
Photo credit: Newsday / John Paraskevas | With one of the higher birth rates in the world, children like this young girl in the capital city of Majuro, make up the largest demographic group in the Marshall Islands. According to the 2000 census, the children up to age 14 comprise 50 percent of the population.
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The people of the Marshall Islands todayA Newsday reporter and photographer have won a first place award for environmental reporting in the National Headliner Awards.
Thomas Maier and John Paraskevas won the award in the print category of the annual contest for "Fallout: The Legacy of Brookhaven Lab in the Pacific."
In addition to the stories in the newspaper, a 30- minute, nine-part Internet documentary ran on its Web site...
