Dunne won journalism awards for general assignment reporting and coverage of the police, courts, education, city hall, and the environment. In the late 1980s, Dunne and ''The Advocate'' reporter Bob Anderson received national honors three times in a year for stories on coastal erosion]and a series on air pollution. Dunne was a two-time winner of the Scripps-Howard Foundation's Edward J. Meeman Award, named for a prominent [[Tennessee]] journalist. In the spring of 2007, with his health in decline, Dunne received the first "America's Wetland Conservationist of the Year" award for stories on threats to the Louisiana [[Gulf Coast]].<ref name=bio/> | Dunne won journalism awards for general assignment reporting and coverage of the police, courts, education, city hall, and the environment. In the late 1980s, Dunne and ''The Advocate'' reporter Bob Anderson received national honors three times in a year for stories on coastal erosion]and a series on air pollution. Dunne was a two-time winner of the Scripps-Howard Foundation's Edward J. Meeman Award, named for a prominent [[Tennessee]] journalist. In the spring of 2007, with his health in decline, Dunne received the first "America's Wetland Conservationist of the Year" award for stories on threats to the Louisiana [[Gulf Coast]].<ref name=bio/> |