2022 - Religion reporting
First-place award for story, "From TV production to the pulpit." The Rev. Peter Ackerman tells of how he left TV production to become an Episcopal priest. His father, Harry Ackerman, was the executive producer for such popular shows as “Bewitched,” “Gidget” and “Dennis the Menace.” His mother, Elinor Donahue, was an actress who played Betty, the oldest daughter on “Father Knows Best.” She was also the lady pharmacist Ellie Walker, who was Andy Griffith’s first girlfriend on the first season of the “Andy Griffith Show.”
