Nkieman Fellows Give Negro Writing Awards

Four Nieman Fellows and Louis Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Foundation, announced last night the 1948 Wendell L. Willkie Awards for Negro Journalism. Two southern newspapers, the Norfolk Va. Journal and Guide and the Atlanta Daily World are the recipients.

Louis Lautier, Atlantic Daily World Washington correspondent, and Simeon Booker, Jr., of the Cleveland Call-Post, received $250 awards for "distinguished correspondence." Nieman Fellow judges included Alan Barth, Grady E. Clay, David B. Dreiman, and E. L. Holland, Jr.