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April 14 • 2011
t was a big night for the Jewish News
at the Excellence in Journalism
Awards handed out April 6 by
the Detroit Chapter of the Society of
Professional Journalists.
Robert Sklar was given a lifetime
achievement award in recognition of his
38 years of community journalism — 25
years at the Observer & Eccentric news-
papers and 13 years as editor of the IN.
In addition, two prominent initiatives
of the JN won first-place honors.
"A Well-Rooted Friendship:' the open-
ing story of the Building Community
project — the effort between the JN and
the Southfield-based Chaldean News
to link the two communities on social
and economic levels — won top honors
for general news reporting. Sklar and
Chaldean News Editor Vanessa Denha
Garmo were presented with the honors.
Bryan Gottlieb, the editor of the JN's
new monthly publication Red Thread,
also won a first-place prize for his head-
line for the story about the controversy
of young Jews getting tattoos, "The Stink
Over Ink."
Sklar also won recognition for his edi-
torial writing. Although he has stepped
down as JN editor, he will remain as a
contributing editor and will continue
to direct the Points of View section and
assist with editorial writing.
Other lifetime achievement awards
given at the journalists banquet at
the San Marino Club in Troy, went to
Maynard "Mac" Gordon of Farmington
Hills, who has covered the auto industry
from Detroit for 67 years; and Charles
Eisendrath, director of the Knight-
Wallace Fellowship program for journal-
ists at the University of Michigan and a
former foreign correspondent for Time
magazine.
JN Publisher Arthur Horwitz intro-
duced Sklar as he was called up to
receive his lifetime achievement award.
"Bob, as the editor of the Detroit
Jewish News, devoted 13 years to helping
shape and lead one of America's great
Jewish communities — always sensitive
to linking the various and often conten-
tious streams of Judaism to each other
and the community at large Horwitz
said.
"Bob's unique ability to distill global
events and make them relevant to his
local readers — to put it another way, to
make events in the Middle East, China
and Europe or in New York and Los
Angeles touch people in their own homes
— is a rare talent and one that helps to
link our global community with our local
one.
In his acceptance speech, Sklar
noted a highlight of his career at the
IN was the launching of Teen2Teen,
a monthly section written for and
by teens to help them become more
active in Jewish life.
"We feared for the strength of Metro
Detroit's Jewish future against the head
winds of assimilation, acculturation
and apathy',' Sklar said. "Five years later,
Teen2Teen remains a popular teen read
— in print and online."
Looking back on his journalistic
career covering Oakland County for the
O&E and the Jewish community for the
IN, Sklar said, "Community newspaper
work has allowed me to feel the heart-
beat of my readership, to mingle and
mix it up and not only to know but also
truly understand its strengths, weak-
nesses and opportunities:' I