Had the great thrill of being inside the Capitol Building for this event. Hope you enjoy my latest at The Daily Beast.
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Amelia Earhart (and I) Turned Up in the Halls of Congress
Author: lgsnyc
My Latest on Amelia Earhart’s Kimono at the Daily Beast
My latest article – this one at The Daily Beast– this gorgeous kimono hasn’t been seen in decades – there’s some amazing history behind it. It has recently resurfaced for the first time in decades, and has never been seen before in color.
Hope you’ll have a read!
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I won the Silurians Press Awards Gold Medallion for Best People Profile!
The Silurians Press Awards is a big one for New York journalism. I couldn’t believe it but the Times entered my Si the Pilot story and it has just received the Gold Medallion for best People Profile. Even they were amazed it got the gold as they don’t normally nominate freelancers. I’m going on June 15th to the award ceremony at the National Arts Club sitting at the Times table next to the Times editors. Wuh? SO honored and excited. I’ll post on the day.
The New York Times and Newsday Win Top Honors In The 77th Annual Excellence In Journalism Awards.
Fortune Magazine, ESPN, WABC-TV, Type Investigations, THE CITY, WINS 1010 Radio, The New Yorker, Gothamist/WNYC, The Record/northjersey.com, News 12 Network, City Limits, USA Today Network, Foreign Policy Magazine And CUNY’s Craig Newhouse Graduate School of Journalism Also Win Awards.
A powerful 18-month long investigation by Newsday into policing on Long Island that uncovered abusive treatment of detainees by law enforcement and discrimination against black applicants for police jobs and an incisive New York Times series that reported how the pandemic has devastated the New York City economy were both awarded the President’s Choice Medallion, the top prize in the Silurians Press Club’s 77th annual Excellence in Journalism Awards.
The Times led this year’s winners with six first place Medallions winning the President’s Choice Award and awards for Breaking News Reporting, Investigative Reporting, Arts and Culture Reporting, Editorials, Commentary and Public Service, People Profiles and Feature Photography. Newsday was close behind with five winning Medallions, capturing the President’s Choice Award, and awards for Business and Financial Reporting , Breaking News Photography, Sports Photography and TV Feature News.
The Silurians Press Club, established in 1924 as The Society of the Silurians, is an organization of more than 300 veteran and retired New York journalists.
People Profiles
Medallion: “He Bombed the Nazis, Outwitted the Soviets and Modernized Christmas”
Laurie Gwen Shapiro
The New York Times
Merit: “Lives of New York”
Alex Vadukul
The New York Times
Merit: “The Ultimate Obit: The Real Unabridged Authorized Warts-and-All Saga of Brooklyn Trolley King Bob Diamond”
By Simi Horwitz
Streetsblog NY
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My latest at The Forward
I sat down with my 99-year-old aunt – a native New Yorker – who shared her memories of the 20th century, starting with Lindbergh’s crossing.
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My Upcoming Piece for Columbia Magazine
“The Tale of the Stowaway who Traded Antarctic Adventures for a Columbia Classroom”
Funny backstory! I wrote it three years ago, got paid, and I forgot about it. I was promised it would run eventually but it wasn’t getting canceled.
Well they finally found the right place for it on the back page which will now have a series of quirky stories. This short piece is launching that series. Enjoy the read!
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My New Piece on Amelia Earhart in the New York Times
Very excited my latest New York Times article on a lost Amelia Earhart helmet was picked as a Great Read online and a Weekender selection. It will be in print this Sunday.
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My New Piece in The New York Times
How a World War II Bomber Pilot Became ‘the King of Artificial Trees’ – The New York Times
So honored to work on this story. My first byline in the New York Times. I’m grateful it has been selected as a Great Read and will be the cover of the Metro section this Sunday.
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I’m joining the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute
I am thrilled to be joining NYU as an Adjunct Professor teaching feature writing. I start in spring and look forward to meeting my first students.
Talking Dorothy Parker with Malachy McCourt and John McDonagh of Radio Free Eireann.
I recently appeared on WBAI 99.5 FM New York to talk about Dorothy Parker with Malachy McCourt and John McDonagh.
The interview starts around 19:30 mark – and goes a good while (40 minutes) so grab a cup of coffee. I love hearing Malachy talk and he knew Dorothy! Time goes quickly when Malachy tells stories!
We also talk about Frank, and Malalchy’s own Algonquinish group of wits, The First Fridays club (Frank and Pete Hamill were in that too), and Malalachy’s gold smuggling days in India. Etc…!
I’m so thrilled and honored to be the first recipient of a new popular history award for longform history articles called the Damn History Article Award
I got this announcement today from popular historian Jack El-Hai who has a fascinating site, el-hai.com, that focuses on popular history and often links to interesting articles.
Announcing the Winner of the 2021 Damn History Article Award
Last year, I grew frustrated by the scarcity of recognition for writers creatively telling nonfiction history stories for non-academic and non-scholarly readers. So I started the Damn History Article Award to honor an engagingly conceived, thoroughly researched, and superbly written popular-history article published during the previous year. Between March and May 2021, a competitive group of submissions poured in, and a judging team made up of Tim Brady, Anika Fajardo, and Pamela Toler went through them. The judges deliberated and decided on a winner and two recipients of honorable mentions.
The winner of the 2021 Damn History Article Award: “The Improbable Journey of Dorothy Parker’s Ashes” by Laurie Gwen Shapiro, published in The New Yorker, September 4, 2020.
The judges’ comments: “Laurie Gwen Shapiro takes a curious lead and develops it into a rich story with an unexpectedly poignant conclusion. It was like reading one of those long footnotes that becomes more interesting than the book itself.”
Congratulations to Laurie, who receives a $250 gift card from bookshop.org and a genuine certificate of excellence from Damn History.