Complex sentence: In 2002, he won the Studs Terkel Award for journalistic excellence for writing from a grassroots perspective, and he's been the recipient of several prestigious Peter Lisagor Awards for commentary.
Split into simpler sentences: In 2002, he won the Studs Terkel Award for journalistic excellence for writing from a grassroots perspective. And he's been the recipient of several prestigious Peter Lisagor Awards for commentary.