The Mail & Guardian’s Cape and Durban correspondents, Marianne Merten and Paul Kirk, were runners-up in the 2000 Ruth First Courageous Journalism Awards, announced this week by Rhodes University. The winner was The Star’s Lynne Altenroxel. Charlene Smith won the prize last year for her articles on rape in the M&G, news editor Mungo Soggot was a runner-up in 1998, while editor Phillip van Niekerk won in 1996. Meanwhile, the newspaper’s environmental correspondent, Fiona Macleod, has been awarded the NSPCA annual print media award for service to animals.
Meanwhile, the newspaper’s environmental correspondent, Fiona McLeod, has been awarded the NSPCA annual print media award for service to animals.