WASHINGTON — Washington Techway, the newsmagazine of the nation’s technology capital, has won a prize for best news coverage in the 47th annual Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards. The winning entry was for coverage of the AOL-Time Warner merger, which appeared in the second issue of the new magazine, on Jan. 31, 2000.

Techway is part of the Post Newsweek Tech Media Group, a unit of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO). It is the second year in a row that a publication of the group has been honored. Last year, Government Computer News’ State and Local won the award for its special issue on the Year 2000 computer crisis. The award to Techway was presented Wednesday, March 14, at a luncheon attended by more than 500 people at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.

The Neal Awards are sponsored by American Business Media, an association of magazines, newspapers and trade shows. ABM said it received a record 1,170 entries vying for 23 awards. The judges were Marshall Loeb of CBS MarketWatch; John Brandt of Chief Executive/dotCEO; Don Christiansen of publishing consultant Informatica; Jill Dutt, assistant managing editor of The Washington Post; Daniel Hertzberg of The Wall Street Journal; Bernice Kanner of Bloomberg; Abe Peck of Noprthwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism; and Don Ranly, University of Missouri-Columbia.

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