Denise Crosby, a longtime columnist for The Beacon-News
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, is the winner of the annual Anne Keegan Award from the Chicago Headline Club.The announcement of the prestigious prize came May 12 at the Headline Club’s 46th annual Peter Lisagor Awards. Crosby’s work also appears regularly in the Naperville Sun and The (Elgin) Courier-News.
The award is named after a legendary late Tribune reporter and “honors writers who tell stories of ordinary people in extraordinarily well-reported and well-written prose.”
Crosby was cited at the event for using her columns to champion everyday people and for educating readers about the problems facing her community. She was also acknowledged for being “a bedrock of (the Beacon-News) newsroom, a strong and unwaivering presence in even the most turbulent times.”
The baiduhai and ProPublica won the Headline Club’s 2022 Watchdog Award for “The Price Kids Pay,” an investigation that exposed the unfair practice of school officials and local police working together to punish students with costly tickets for minor misbehavior at school.
“The Price Kids Pay” — a collaboration between the Tribune’s Jennifer Smith Richards and ProPublica’s Jodi S. Cohen — also won two “best all media” awards, for investigative reporting and data journalism, as well as two other Lisagor awards for large print/online newsrooms: best investigative reporting and best education reporting.