Monday, September 12, 2011 01:01
7th Annual John Jay/ H. F. Guggenheim Prize for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting
Competition is now open for the John Jay College of Criminal Justice/Harry Frank Guggenheim prizes for the best reporting on crime and justice published in U.S. newspapers, magazines or online. The $1,000 annual awards, sponsored by the nation’s pre-eminent academic institution on criminal justice, honor investigative, feature and enterprise journalism that has had a significant impact on public understanding during the year. The Award for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting is administered by the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay, and judged by a panel of leading journalists and educators. Prizewinners are announced after Jan 1, 2012 and will be entitled to an all-expense paid trip to New York to accept the awards at the annual prize dinner in February, 2012. To be eligible for the prize, work must be published in the U.S. between November 1, 2010 and October 31, 2011. All entries must be submitted online in MS Word or PDF file format ONLY.
Deadline: November 9, 2011 11:59 p.m. ET
The special John Jay/H.F. Guggenheim prize for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting was established to honor journalists whose reporting informs and enhances the public’s understanding of issues related to crime in America. Support for the prize comes from the H. F. Guggenheim Foundation, a private operating and grant-making foundation that aims to shape support research on violence, aggression, and dominance. The foundation provides both research grants to established scholars and dissertation fellowships to graduate students during the dissertation writing year. For more information, visit http://www.hfg.org/.
The Prize winning entries will be posted on the John Jay Center on Media, Crime and Justice web site,www.jjay.cuny.edu/cmcj after January 1, 2012.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice: An international leader in educating for justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York offers a rich liberal arts and professional studies curriculum to upwards of 14,000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 135 nations. In teaching, scholarship and research, its faculty are the College approaches justice as an applied art and science in service to society and as an ongoing conversation about fundamental human desires for fairness, equality and the rule of law. For more information, visit www.jjay.cuny.edu.
The Center on Media, Crime and Justice, housed at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) since 2006, is the nation's only practice- and research-oriented think tank devoted to encouraging and developing high-quality reporting on criminal justice, and to promoting better-informed public debate on the complex 21st-century challenges of law enforcement, public security and justice in a globalized urban society. For more information, visit http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/cmcj.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 12:13
An article on Rikers Island High School in The Crime Report was awarded first place in online writing in the 2011 National Federation of Press Women awards. The article, published July 15, 2010, explored whether America's first high school at a correctional facility, the Austin H. MacCormick Island Academy, located at New York’s Rikers Island jail, has fulfilled its promise to offer young offenders a second chance to go straight.
See list of award winners here.
The article, "Can a Prison Education Turn Someone Inside Out?," by Lion Calandra, a former NY Daily News editorial writer, was her reporting project for the 2010 John Jay/Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship. Read her article here. The author, Lion also wrote an accompanying "Reporters Notebook" for the piece, detailing how journalists could follow up her story. Read her Reporters Notebook here.
Monday, April 11, 2011 04:54
The deadline is 5 p.m. Fri., April 15 to apply for the 17th annual
Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism honoring distinguished coverage in
2010 of children, youth and families. First-place winners receive $1,000;
Categories include newspaper, video, magazine, audio, multimedia and
photojournalism. First-place winners will also be considered for the
America's Promise Journalism Awards for Awareness, which pay $5,000.
For more info, visit http://www.journalismcenter.
Wednesday, April 06, 2011 11:31
A four-part series on the problem of illegal guns published in the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Press in December 2010 was awarded third place for investigative reporting by the Michigan AP Editorial Association.
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James Ridgeway and Jean Casella received a 2010 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) award for their Feb 18, 2010 article in The Crime Report, “Locking Down the Mentally Ill.” , the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) announced April 4. The Ridgeway-Casella article was one of only two online entries to win the nationwide honor.
The PASS awards annually recognize the best reportage of criminal justice, juvenile justice and child welfare systems by print and broadcast journalists, TV news and feature reporters, producers, writers, film-makers and authors. The awards are intended to spotlight stories that “illustrate current realities or the promise of reform, especially those that help people understand the complex causes of crime, and what must be done to prevent and control it,” the NCCD said.
For a list of all 2010 winners, click here.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 09:07
Publications in New Jersey, Wisconsin and Louisiana were awarded 2010 George Polk Awards for their work on criminal justice.
Amy Brittain and Mark Mueller of the Newark Star-Ledger were named winners of a 2010 George Polk Award in Journalism for "Strong at Any Cost," their series that "revealed rampant steroid use and fraud among cops and firefighters in New Jersey." The judges said that, "the tenacious work of the Star-Ledger tandem resulted in a wave of action from state lawmakers and the presidents of New Jersey’s two largest police unions — including an investigation by the state Attorney General’s Office and calls for random drug testing for steroids."
John Diedrich and Ben Poston of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel were named winners in criminal justice reporting, for "Wiped Clean." an investigation into violations by gun dealers, including how "more than 50 gun shop owners facing federal scrutiny wiped away years of gun sale violations simply by changing ownership on paper, such as from father to son or from husband to wife."
In the category of television reporting, A.C. Thompson of ProPublica, Raney Aronson-Rath and Tom Jennings of PBS' "Frontline," and Laura Maggi and Brendan McCarthy of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, won for "Law & Disorder," an investigation into abuses by New Orleans police following Hurricane Katrina. The judges said that, "The news project revealed that in the midst of post-Katrina chaos, law-enforcement commanders issued orders to ignore long-established rules governing use of deadly force, reporting that a police captain told a group of officers that they had the authority “by martial law to shoot looters."
The George Polk Awards have been administered by Long Island University since 1949. They memorialize CBS correspondent George W. Polk, who was slain covering the civil war in Greece in 1948.
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Monday, February 14, 2011 04:01
New York Magazine and The Philadelphia Inquirer Investigative Team won the 2011 John Jay/H.F. Guggenheim Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Awards.
Read the New York Magazine story, "I Did It," by Robert Kolker here.
Read the Philadelphia Inquirer Investigative team story, "Justice: Delayed, Dismissed, Denied" here.
Honorable mention in the single-entry category went to Jim Schaefer of the Detroit Free Press, for his article, "Overdue Justice," an investigation of victim restitutions still held in state coffers years later. Two entries tied for second place in the series category: Charles Piller of The Sacramento Bee for his series, "The Public Eye," focusing on prison reforms; and "Law and Disorder," an investigation of the New Orleans police force after Katrina by the ProPublica, New Orleans Times Picayune and PBS Frontline Investigative Teams.
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