By admin on August 24, 2010
2005 Fellow Kate Bramson and her colleagues at the Providence Journal have won this year’s New England Associated Press News Executives Association’s Sevellon Brown Award for public service. The December 2009 article and others reported how a prominent federal prosecutor got pulled over for suspected drunken driving on Thanksgiving weekend, and got off without being charged [...]
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By admin on August 23, 2010
The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism today announced the recipients of the 2010 Dart Center Ochberg Fellowships. This year’s Dart Center Ochberg Fellowships for mid-career journalists interested in improving coverage of violent events go to: Solange Azevedo, Revista Epoca, Sao Paulo, Brazil Cecilia Ballí, Texas Monthly Patrick Farrell, [...]
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By admin on August 9, 2010
Associated Press editor Jim Trotter, formerly of the Rocky Mountain News, has been named the recipient of the Dart Society’s 2010 Mimi Award. The award, which carries a $1,000 cash prize, will be presented to Trotter in September. Trotter said he was thrilled by the news of the award. The Mimi is given annually to [...]
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By admin on August 2, 2010
2008 Fellow Kelly Kennedy has won the 2010 Bugle Award from the Disabled American Veterans for her work covering burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan for the Army Times as well as for her book, “They Fought for Each Other.” The Bugle Award recognizes outstanding reporting of veterans affairs to the American public. Click here to [...]
Posted in Awards, Books by Fellows, Kelly Kennedy, News About Us, Reporting War
By admin on June 29, 2010
For their watchdog project, Fatal Care, Gina Barton (’00) of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and colleagues Crocker Stephenson and Kristyna Wentz-Graff won the Casey Medal in the under-200,000-circ. category. “This team went beyond the story of one child’s death in foster care to discover that 22 additional children died as a result of systemic neglect,” the Casey release [...]
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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 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 Melissa Manware Treadaway on May 11, 2010
The deadline for the 2010 Mimi Award is June 1. We need your help finding editors worthy of a nomination — we’re looking for editors who demonstrate great compassion and competence in seeing through the most difficult stories. We know these editors are not easy to find. Please think about your editor or others you know. [...]
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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 [...]
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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
