Dallas Early morning Information organization author wins prestigious nationwide award

A Dallas Morning News enterprise author has attained first-place honors in a prestigious countrywide enterprise journalism awards competitiveness.

Natalie Walters’ 2020 story about the pandemic’s toll on 5 important nonprofit businesses was recognized in the Modern society for Advancing Organization Modifying and Producing annual competition. She wrote the tale, titled “‘It’s as if Hurricane Katrina strike every single city close to the U.S.’: How COVID is impacting 5 of the biggest nonprofits,” even though interning at The Information past summer months.

She won SABEW’s award for student journalism for professional media shops.

Walters has considering that joined The News’ staff total-time to report on the region’s expanding money expert services sector and other income-similar subjects.

She has 5 a long time of reporting expertise in New York at monetary news web pages Business Insider, The Avenue and Motley Idiot, and past yr done a master’s diploma in investigative journalism at Arizona Condition University’s Cronkite College.

The Information and its writers have captured initially-position awards in the greatest-in-company contest in four of the final 5 yrs. Staff writer Dom DiFurio and two former staffers won the breaking information class in 2019 and The News workers gained for basic excellence in 2018. The News also brought property a first-location award in 2016.

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