Harry Chapin Media Awards Finalists Announced
Harry Chapin Media Award Finalists Announced
New York, NY — The Harry Chapin Media Awards were established in 1982 to reward journalists for their coverage of hunger and poverty-related issues. An independent panel of judges will select this year's recipients on June. The finalists for 2009 are:
Books – Let’s Get Free: A Hip Hop Justice by Paul Butler (The New Press); A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld (Pantheon); and Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty by Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman (PublicAffairs).
Television/Film – Socially Connected: Is Anybody Listening? by Karen Forshay, John Larson, Bret Marcus, Justine Schmidt, Val Zavala and Marcus Villatoro (KCET-TV); Cash for Poor: Mexico’s Anti-Poverty Program by Merrill Schwerin, Catherine Wise and Ray Suarez (The PBS NewsHour); The Children Beyond Chernobyl by Jim Fahy and Ken Fogerty (RTE); and Trouble the Water by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal (HBO).
Newspapers – Saving Nepal’s Indentured Girls by Meredith May (San Francisco Chronicle and Pulitzer Center on Crisis); Chronic Homelessness Series by Kim Horner (The Dallas Morning News); This Land by Dan Barry (The New York Times); Deadly Detention by Nina Bernstein (The New York Times); Running In The Shadows by Ian Urbina (The New York Times); The Lowest Rung by Nicholas Kristof (The New York Times); and No Place To Call Home Series by Raymond Castile (Suburban Journals/Lee Enterprises).
Periodicals – There Goes the Neighborhood by Alyssa Katz (The American Prospect); Hungry In Zimbabwe by Jon Lee Anderson (Dispatches); and Opportunity Knocks by Paul Reyes (Virginia Quarterly Review).
New Media – Childhood Poverty in Colorado by Tim Rasmussen (The Denver Post); India Struggles with Hunger by Ruth Fremson and Nancy Donaldson (The New York Times); and The Forgotten Navajo: People in Need by Katy Bolger, Elizabeth Wagner, Elisa Lagos, Rachel Wise and Darren Tobia (Pavement Pieces).
Finalists in the Photojournalism category will be announced in early May.
WHY is a non-profit organization co-founded by the late singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, and radio talk show host and present Executive Director Bill Ayres in 1975. WHY attacks the root causes of hunger and poverty by promoting effective and innovative community-based solutions that create self-reliance, economic justice, and food security.
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