Times Religion Writer Wins Two National Awards
Russell Chandler, a Los Angeles Times religion writer, has won the nation’s two most prestigious journalism awards for religion reporting during the past year.
The Religion Newswriters Assn., meeting this week in Columbia, Mo., named Chandler winner of the first annual, $2,000 John Templeton Award as “reporter of the year 1984” for enterprise reporting on religion. He also won the James O. Supple Memorial Award, which carries a $400 prize, for “excellence in covering religion for the secular press.”
The Religion Newswriters Assn. includes more than 200 specialists in religion reporting for newspapers, news magazines and wire news services.
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