The award - presented last week at the Enterprise Network Conference in Los Angeles - is sponsored by Enterprise and the Freedom Forum to recognize outstanding journalism in issues affecting the nation's urban areas.
Rodricks was honored for his series of columns focused on assisting Baltimore's ex-offenders by getting drug dealers off of the streets and finding work for them.Bowie and Chung produced the four-part "On Their Own" series last year exploring the lives of a pair of homeless teen-agers in the city
In addition to The Sun, WFPL radio in Louisville, Ky., was honored for its examination of housing desegregation in that city.