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NLGJA 2023: Clare Mulroy accepts the "Excellence in Bisexual Coverage" award for "To disclose or not to disclose: Inside the push for bisexual-affirming medical care."

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Clare Mulroy wins the 2023 "Excellence in Bisexual Coverage" award

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists announced the recipients of its 2023 Excellence in Journalism Awards and recognized exemplary work produced in 2022. The highest individual awards, Journalist of the Year and Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for the LGBTQ+ Journalist of the Year, have been awarded to Ari Shapiro and Victoria A. Brownworth, respectively.

“We are thrilled to recognize the exceptional work of LGBTQ+ journalists through our Excellence in Journalism Awa
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Journalism Division Celebrates 2022 Student Awards and Honors

For the first time, two American University School of Communication (AU SOC) students received the annual Rodger Streitmatter Journalism Award for Excellence. Graduating seniors Clare Mulroy and Skye Witley were honored for their outstanding scholarship and dedication to the field of journalism.

The award, named in honor of longtime professor Rodger Streitmatter, was part of a multi-recognition ceremony last week that featured the induction of seven new Kappa Tau Alpha members. The national hon
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American University unknowingly distributed counterfeit KN95 masks, officials confirm

On Friday, the Eagle, AU’s student newspaper, reported that the university had unknowingly distributed counterfeit masks during the first week of classes. The staff began investigating after people contacted the newsroom’s social media accounts about “discrepancies in the legitimacy of the masks,” said Clare Mulroy, the Eagle’s editor in chief.

University officials examined the masks after hearing concerns from people on campus, and they found the items did not conform to federal guidance, AU’s
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Local High School Alumni Call for Curriculum to Include More Black and Indigenous History

School officials in Sandwich and in Barnstable will meet with graduates in the coming days to discuss how to better include Black and Indigenous history and discussions on race and racism into school curricula. The meetings stem from two separate letters written and signed by more than 15-hundred alumni from both districts asking for these changes.

WCAI's Kathryn Eident talked with Sandwich High School class of 2018 graduate Clare Mulroy and Barnstable High School graduating senior Margo Sillim

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