Newsday journalists receive awards
From left, Dr. Lambros George Angus, physician assistant Gerald Augustin, Dr. Julius Garvey and Dr. Anthony Boutin, all of whom work on Long Island, examine an X-ray on Tuesday outside the emergency room at General Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The country is recovering from a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Jan. 12, 2010. (Jan. 26, 2010) Credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams Jr.
Three Newsday journalists have been honored for their accomplishments by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Reporter Ridgely Ochs and photographer J. Conrad Williams Jr. won the group's 2011 Salute to Excellence Award in the News-International category for their stories on Haitian-American medical workers from Long Island who rushed to Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake.
The award was presented at the NABJ's Salute to Excellence Gala in Philadelphia on Saturday.
Newsday sports writer Kimberley A. Martin accepted her award, announced in April, as the group's Emerging Journalist of the Year.
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