Making News: Lombardi, Sullivan, Morris, Kennedy, Wallace, Lamb, Rodriguez, and Jina Moore

Congratulations to Kristen Lombardi, Laura Sullivan and Hollman Morris.

Lombardi, the lead projects reporter for The Center for Public Integrity, worked with NPR correspondent Joseph Shapiro on the investigative project, “Seeking Justice for Campus Rapes.”  NPR received a Peabody Award for this collaboration.

Dart Award-winning NPR correspondent Sullivan won a Peabody for her series, “Behind the Bail Bond System,” on jailovercrowding due to inmates’ inability to make bail.

Morris, along with Juan Jose Lozano, won a Silver Butterfly for their documentary Impunity at The Movies that Matter festival in the Hague, successor to the Amnesty International film event.  The film investigates the horrific violence within Colombian paramilitary groups.  Watch the trailer below.

Kelly Kennedy, current president of Military Reporters and Editors, reminds us that the MRE’s 2011 Journalism Contest is taking submissions until the close of the business day on May 25.

Scott Wallace has written a new book, The People of the Arrow: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Hidden Tribes, that will be released Oct. 18th, 2011. Check out Wallace’s website.

Christina Lamb, U.S. editor of the Sunday Times of London, has reported on Afghanistan since 1987.  Read her latest report on Afghan women’s rights.   Lamb will be a panelist at the forum ”Women and War in Afghanistan,”  sponsored by the World Affairs Council, at 6 p.m. April 7 at the Torp Theatre at Central Connecticut State University.

Joseph Rodriguez has an excellent broadcast about racial tensions in Sweden between the Muslim population and indigenous Swedes on PRI’s The World. See the BBC’s Open Eye project description and video here.

Jina Moore writes about the UN’s new Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), in this article for the Christian Science Monitor.

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