Las Vegas reporter named AP’s Nevada Staffer for 2007
RENO -- Kathleen Hennessey, a reporter for The Associated Press in Las Vegas, has been named AP's Nevada Staffer of the Year for 2007.
John Raess, chief of bureau for Northern Nevada, Northern California and Hawaii, made the presentation at the Nevada Press Association's annual awards banquet attended by some 200 journalists and their guests at the National Automobile Museum in Reno.
In presenting the award, Raess singled out Hennessey for her thorough coverage of the presidential caucus, for breaking stories about the state's elected officials and for her pleasing writing style.
Hennessey, who joined the Las Vegas bureau in September 2005, began her AP career as a temporary reporter covering the state Legislature in Carson City before working for a brief time in the Sacramento, Calif., bureau.
Previously, she worked in the Washington, D.C., bureau of the Los Angeles Times, first as an intern and then as a contract reporter on the national political team. She also interned at the Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C., and was an editorial fellow at Mother Jones magazine.
Hennessey earned her master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004. She graduated from Boston College in 1998 with a bachelor's in history. She and her husband, William Carroll, live in Henderson.
Member editors help select the AP's staffer of the year, who receives a plaque and a check for $500.
