Should Journalists Receive Awards for Covering Hard News? My Thought Is No; I’ll Tell You Why

Andrea Lawrence
6 min readMay 9, 2022
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The Way Journalists Are Rewarded Needs to Change

When I worked in news, one of the strangest things to me was that people sought out awards for their coverage on topics that were deeply sorrowful, traumatic, and disturbing. I think journalists should receive something else…

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Andrea Lawrence

Poet, creative writer, loves a bit of satire, food and wine journalist, relationship writer, interior design maven, Midwestern background.