By The Dart Society on May 27, 2010
Check out the story about Mike Walter’s win at Cannes for Best Short Documentary. Produced by Mike, a 2005 Fellow, “Breaking News, Breaking Down,” was funded by the Dart Society and features the society’s “Target: New Orleans” project, which paired Dart journalists with counterparts at the Times-Picayune. It also tells the story of Mike’s witnessing [...]
Posted in Awards, Hurricane Katrina, News About Us
By The Dart Society on May 17, 2010
Check out Moni Basu’s beautiful piece for CNN: Get the Flash Player to see this content. var params = { ‘allowfullscreen’: ‘true’, ‘allowscriptaccess’: ‘always’, ‘wmode’: ‘transparent’ }; var attributes = { ‘id’: ‘video0′, ‘name’: ‘video0′}; var flashvars = { ‘file’ : ‘http://dartsociety.com//wp-content/uploads/moni.haity.flv’, ‘width’ : ’400′, ‘height’ : ’280′, ‘controlbar’ : ‘bottom’, ‘dock’ : ‘false’, ‘icons’ [...]
Posted in Haiti Earthquake, Moni Basu, Three Acts | Tagged Haiti, Moni Basu
By The Dart Society on May 14, 2010
Clara Germani, the Christian Science Monitor editor who received the 2009 Mimi Award honorable mention, was the project editor on a four-month, five-continent investigative project on carbon offsets that just won the Sidney award for April. The project, a collaboration of The Monitor and the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, blew the cover off scams and [...]
Posted in Awards, Environmental costs, News About Us | Tagged carbon offsets, Christian Science Monitor, Clara Germani
By The Dart Society on May 6, 2010
Dave Cullen, a 2002 Fellow who published “Columbine” last year, won The Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category of “fact crime.” The awards were presented in New York on April 29. “Columbine” took 10 years to write. It delves into why the killers did what they did and how the [...]
Posted in Awards, Books by Fellows, Dave Cullen | Tagged columbine. edgar award, Dave Cullen
By The Dart Society on May 6, 2010
2000 Fellow Gina Barton’s “Fatal Care” series in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel received recognition from the Newspaper Guild, which named it a runner-up for the 2010 Heywood Broun Award. Named for the crusading New York columnist, the award lauds work that rights social injustice. David Jackson and Gary Marx of the Chicago Tribune won the award for their [...]
Posted in Awards | Tagged Fatal care, Gina Barton, Newspaper Guild
By The Dart Society on May 6, 2010
2009 Fellow John McCusker, a photographer for the Times-Picayune, flew over the oil spill this morning and shot this photo. In this article by his colleague Mark Schleifstein, John describes the spill: “Everywhere, it looks orangey, even when it’s coming to the surface at the rig,” McCusker said. “It isn’t like a blob. It’s like [...]
Posted in Covering Catastrophe
By The Dart Society on May 4, 2010
2009 Ochberg Fellow Hollman Morris, whose work investigating Colombia’s armed conflict and human rights violations has placed him in personal danger, will receive the 2010 Samuel Chavkin Prize for Integrity in Latin American Journalism. Morris is the editorial director of the investigative news program Contravia and a native of Colombia. He is also the director [...]
Posted in Awards
By The Dart Society on May 4, 2010
Kristen Lombardi’s series about how rapes are handled on college campuses has won the 2009 Sigma Delta Chi Award for public service in online reporting, which is given by the Society of Professional Journalists. Kim Komenich also won the award in digital media presentation for his work on “The Bay Area Toxic Tour: West Oakland,” published [...]
Posted in Awards
By The Dart Society on April 28, 2010
At our Invictus gathering last November at Moni Basu’s house in Atlanta, I met the photojournalist Rich Addicks. Like Moni, he was a former Atlanta Journal-Constitution staffer who had spent his career covering some of the toughest stories of our times. We were paired together to talk about work that had stuck with us, and [...]
Posted in Featured Fellows, Getting Personal, Journalists as Human Beings, Kim Komenich, News About Us, Uncategorized
