Awards & Highlights

• 2001 Hearst Eagle Award for Excellence
• 1997 American Market Award for Everything You Need to Know About the Internet booklet
• 1996 Nominated by the Houston Chronicle for a Pulitzer Prize in the National Affairs Reporting category.
• 1995 First technology reporter to write that SoftRAM95 did not do what it claimed to do.
• 1995 Nominated by the Houston Chronicle for a Pulitzer Prize in the Beat Reporting category.
• 1994 Special Commendation, Joseph L. Brechner Award for Freedom of Information for series on government use of computers
• 1994 Finalist, Scripps-Howard First Amendment Award for series on government use of computers
• 1993 Member of editing team handling coverage of Waco cult story
• 1993 Ark Trust Genesis Award for stories on sales of zoo animals to Texas hunting ranches
• 1991 Member of editing team handling coverage of Killeen "Luby's" shooting
• 1992 Texas Headliners Award for editing & co-writing Houston Chronicle series on psychiatric hospital abuses
• 1988 Broke national story for The San Antonio Current about Mayor Henry Cisneros' extra-marital relationship
• 1988 Society of Professional Journalists' award - Best Weekly Newspaper Editorial
• 1987 Society of Professional Journalists' award - Best Weekly Newspaper Editorial
• 1986 Nominated as Best TV Critic in the Washington Journalism Review's "Best in the Business" Poll
• 1984 Co-wrote series questioning cost and safety at the South Texas Nuclear Project
• 1979 Broke national story for the Beaumont Enterprise about Bob Dylan becoming "born again."