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Updated: Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Published: Friday, August 24, 2007 |
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NABJ Announces 2007 Salute to Excellence Award Winners
WASHINGTON-- The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) announced the recipients of the 2007 Salute to Excellence Awards Saturday, August 11th. The annual awards recognize exemplary coverage of people of color or issues in the African Diaspora. The annual competition honors work in print, television, radio, online, and photojournalism.
Winners were announced at the Salute to Excellence Awards Gala at the 32nd Annual Convention and Career Fair in Las Vegas. Maurice Dubois, anchor, WCBS-TV New York, served as the gala hos.
Special honorees at the black-tie event include Dean Baquet, Washington Bureau Chief of The New York Times as Journalist of the Year; Bernard Shaw, former CNN anchor, presented with The Lifetime Achievement Award; and Steve Capus, president of NBC News, received the 2007 Ida B. Wells Award. A joint award with the National Conference of Editorial Writers, the Ida B. Wells award recognizes a media executive or manager who has made outstanding efforts to make newsrooms and news coverage more accurately reflect the diversity of the communities they serve.
Additional special honors include Community Service Award recipient Linda Waller Shockley of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund and Emerging Journalist of the Year, Mara Schiavocampo, a freelance multimedia journalist.
The following winners were announced at the 2007 Salute to Excellence Awards Gala for exemplary journalism displayed in 2006:
NEW MEDIA
Best Online News Project
Staff of Washingtonpost.com
Being a Black Man
Best Use of Interactivity
Ellis Cose
Profile of Newark Mayor Cory Booker
Newsweek
Best Online Commentary
Cherie Berkley
"Tanzania Travels"
WebMD Health
RADIO
Radio Enterprise/Documentary
John Lisk, Richard Benson
Katrina: A Return to the Gulf
CNN Radio
Radio Features
John Lisk, Richard Benson
Brian Cook
Buck ONeil Remembered
American Urban Radio Networks
Radio Feature, Market 16 and Below
Leoneda Inge
Extreme Makeover
North Carolina Public Radio WUNC FM
Radio Sports
Dave Dewitt
Cullen Jones
North Carolina Public Radio-WUNC FM
Radio News, Short Form
Toni Randolph
"Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission"
Minnesota Public Radio
Radio News, Long Form
Farai Chideya, Cory Turner, Nicole Childers
Skid Row
National Public Radio
Radio Commentary
Cory Turner, Nicole Childers
Personal View on the New Jersey Same Sex Marriage Ban
National Public Radio
NEWSPAPER
Newspaper Photography, Single Image
Chris Tyree
Robin Browns Baptism
The Virginian-Pilot
Newspaper Photography, Multiple Images
Lacey Atkins
A Plague of Killing
San Francisco Chronicle
Newspaper Art and Design, Page Design, Circulation Above 150,000
Steve Ziants
Black and Golden
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Newspaper Art and Design, Page Design, Circulation Under 150,000
Joshua Johnson
Built on Faith, Friendship West opens state-of-the-art facility
The Dallas Weekly
Newspaper Art and Design, Graphics
Dan Marsula
The Stuff of Legends
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Newspaper Commentary, Circulation Under 150,000
Vincent Hall
And Martin Cried
The Dallas Weekly
Newspaper Enterprise, Circulation Under 150,000
Kristen Hinman
Basketball by the Book
Riverfront Times
Newspaper Business, Circulation Under 150,000
Ben Westhoff
Ace if Spaides
Riverfront Times
Newspaper Sports, Circulation Under 150,000
Adam Zagoria
Closed Doors
Herald News
Newspaper Feature-Circulation Under 150,000
Nina Shapiro
Schooling the District
Seattle Weekly
Newspaper Daily News-Circulation Under 150,000
Samantha Henry
Shattered Dreams
Herald News
Newspaper, International-Circulation Over 150,000
Michael M. Phillips
Out of Africa
Wall Street Journal
Newspaper, Enterprise-Circulation Over 150,000
Staff of the Charlotte Observer and The News & Observer
The Ghosts of 1898
The Charlotte Observer/The News & Observer
Newspaper, Business-Circulation Over 150,000
Keith L. Alexander
A Chance to Get Into the Room
The Washington Post
Newspaper, Commentary-Circulation Over 150,000
Mary Mitchell
Mama, I didn't do this
Chicago Sun-Times
Newspaper, Sports-Circulation Over 150,000
Bob Hohler
Few Minorities Get the Reins in College Football
The Boston Globe
Newspaper, Feature-Circulation Over 150,000
Kevin Merida, Michael A. Fletcher, Richard Morin, Steven A. Holmes, Robert E. Pierre, Wil Haygood, Dion Haynes, Tamara Jones, Darryl Fears, Krissah Williams, Keith L. Alexander, David Finkel, Neely Tucker, Sari Horwitz, Lonnae ONeal Parker, Donna Britt
Being a Black Man Series
The Washington Post
Newspaper, Daily News-Circulation Over 150,000
Staff of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Coretta Scott King
Newspaper, Specialty-Circulation Over 150,000
Tracy Wheeler, Cheryl Powell, Elizabeth Suh, Kathy Spitz
The Great Health Divide
Akron Beacon Journal
Tim Collie, Mike Stocker, Joe Amon
AIDS Orphans
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Newspaper, Copy Editing-Circulation Over 150,000
Lamar Wilson
ATL Lovers and Friends and Other Headlines
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
MAGAZINE
Magazine, Feature-Circulation Under 1 Million
Don Terry, Joyce Winnecke
Northern Exposure
Chicago Tribune Magazine
Wil Haygood
Showing the Way
The Washington Post Magazine
Leah Latimer
Quarantined
The Washington Post Magazine
Magazine, Specialty-Circulation Under 1 Million
Kai Wright
Upward Mortality
Mother Jones Magazine
Magazine, Investigative-Circulation Under 1 Million
Deneen Brown
To Catch a Killer
The Washington Post Magazine
Magazine, International-Circulation Under 1 Million
Laurie Goering
A Light in the Darkness
Chicago Tribune Magazine
Magazine, General News-Circulation Over 1 Million
Evan Thomas, Jonathan Alter, Jonathan Darman, Sarah Childress
Follow Up Coverage of Hurricane Katrina
Newsweek
Magazine, Specialty-Circulation Over 1 Million
Angela Burt-Murray Claire McIntosh, Rosemarie Robotham, Lynya Floyd
The Story of AIDS in Black America
Essence Magazine
Magazine, Business-Circulation Over 1 Million
Angela Burt-Murra, Claire McIntosh, Kimberly Allers
The Essence Home Ownership Campaign
Essence Magazine
TELEVISION
Network Television-Public Affairs
Kari Manns-Leewood, Maria Ebrahimgi, Jim Clancy, Matt Lee
CNN Connects: The New South Africa
CNN International
Network Television-International
Lara Logan, Max McClellan, Bill Owens, Bob Hill
Darfur
CBS Evening News
Network Television-Documentary
Grant Clark, Selwynn Seyfu Hinds
"S.O.S. Saving Ourselves: One Year Later"
BET News
Network Television-Sports
Ed Bradley
60 Minutes, Tiger
CBS News 60 Minutes
Network Television-Feature/Short Form
Randall Pinkston
Gee's Bend
CBS Evening News
Network Television-Feature/Long Form
Traci Curry
The Chop Up: Black Ice
BET News
Network Television-News/Short Form
Byron Pitts, Rodney Comrie, Mike Mayberry, Bill Owens
"Georgia Cops"
CBS Evening News
Network Television-News/Long Form
Jason Carroll
"Linguistic Profiling"
CNN
Network Television-Specialty
Joe Johns, Steve Turnham, Josh Rubin, David Doss, Doug Schantz
"Injustice and the Environment"
CNN
Television-Public Affairs, Top 15 Markets
Ray Metoyer, Greg Morrison, Hakim Sabur, Anthony Daniels
Katrina, After the Storm
Black Family Channel
Television-Public Affairs, Top 15 Markets
Ray Metoyer, Greg Morrison, Hakim Sabur, Steve Keller
"Who Killed Emmett Till?"
Black Family Channel
Television-Feature/Short Form, Top 15 Markets
Todd Wallace
Passion and Pasture
KXAS-TV Dallas
Television-Feature/Long Form, Top 15 Markets
Barbara Rodgers, Craig Franklin, Greg Marasso
"Not a Genuine Black Man"
KPIX-TV San Francisco
Television-Feature/Long Form, Top 15 Markets
Allison Payne, Brittany Abbate, Ted Parra
Missing Women of Color
WGN-TV Chicago
Television-Documentary, Market 16 and Below
Anne-Marie Berger
Living St. Louis Katherine Dunham
KETC-TV St. Louis
Television-Enterprise, Market 16 and Below
Karen Massie, Dana Howard
Race and Education
KXTV-TV Sacramento
Television-Specialty, Market 16 and Below
Anne-Marie Berger
Living St. Louis Katherine Dunham
KETC-TV St. Louis
Television-Feature/Long Form, Market 16 and Below
Kristin Wright, Ed Fox
SOULVILLE (PARTS I & II)
WHTM-TV Harrisburg
Television-Specialty, Market 16 and Below
Anne-Marie Berger
Living St. Louis Katherine Dunham
KETC-TV St. Louis
Television-Public Affairs, Market 16 and Below
Steve Crump
Margaret Garner's Southern Sojourn
WTVI-TV Charlotte
An advocacy group established in 1975 in Washington, D.C., NABJ is the largest organization of journalists of color in the nation, with more than 4,100 members, and provides educational, career development and support to black journalists worldwide.
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