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MT reporter Bill Kettler wins award From staff and wire reports SEATTLE - Mail Tribune reporter Bill Kettler won a regional award Thursday for a series of stories about a woman and her family as she decided to end her life with a physician's assistance. The 2001 C.B. Blethen Memorial Award for Distinguished Newspaper Reporting was presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Association. Kettler's "A Death in the Family" series won in a category for newspapers with daily circulations of 50,000 or less. Kettler, 52, covers medical issues and the outdoors for the newspaper. He has worked at the Mail Tribune since 1992. In a category for larger newspapers, The Oregonian's Richard Read, Brent Walth, Kim Christensen and Julie Sullivan won for the series "Liberty's Heavy Hand," which pointed out problems with the federal Immigration and Naturalization Service. The newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for public service for the coverage. Tom Hallman Jr. of The Oregonian won a first-place award for feature writing for "Boy Behind the Mask," a four-part series about a facially disfigured teen-ager. The series won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. Seattle Times Publisher Frank Blethen presented the awards, given for 25 years in memory of C.B. Blethen, who published The Seattle Times for 26 years, from 1915 until his death in 1941. PNNA daily newspaper members in Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Alaska, British Columbia and Alberta were eligible for the contest, which is administered by the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Foundation. Prize money was donated by The Seattle Times. First-place winners received $500, and second-place winners, $250. Contest judges were top news executives from daily newspapers outside the PNNA region. Mail Tribune Home | Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. | Dow Jones & Co., Inc. | Privacy | Contact Us Copyright � 2001 Mail Tribune, Inc.