This year we are planning to spotlight the ASJA Awards program in a new, special evening dinner function on Friday, April 11, 2008 from 7:30 – 10:30 p.m.

Join your award-winning colleagues and outside editors Friday evening after the Hyatt cocktail party for a luxe event in the Roosevelt Hotel's elegant Palm and Terrace rooms. Come share a lovely evening in old-world New York ambiance, just a few steps from the Grand Hyatt.

Tickets are $68 each (reduced from $75). Click here to purchase.

ASJA 2008 Award Winners

ASJA Founders' Award for Career Achievement - Sarah Wernick (posthumous)

Service/Self-Help/Collaborative Book – Wendy Lyons Sunshine
   The Connected Child, McGraw-Hill, 2007

Article Awards:

First Person, Essay, or Personal Experience – Margie Goldsmith
   "The Sense of Being Stared At"
   O, The Oprah Magazine, July 2007

Best Service Article – Bob Cooper
   "Road Tested"
   Runner's World, July 2007

Profiles – Michelle Nijhuis
   "Of Murder and Microscopes"
   Sierra, May/June 2007

Arlenes – Christie Aschwanden
   "Through the Forest, A Clearer View of the Needs of A People"
   New York Times, September 18, 2007

Trade Writing Award – Michael Fitzgerald
   "L0pht in Transition"
   CSO, April 2007

Donald Robinson Memorial Award for Investigative Journalism – Katherine Eban
   "The War on Terror: Rorschach and Awe"
   VanityFair.com, July 17, 2007

Reporting on a Significant Topic – Todd Pitock
   "Science and Islam"
   Discover, July 2007

June Roth Memorial Award for Medical Journalism – Richard Laliberte
   "Doctor Where Art Thou"
   Prevention, May 2007