Community Media Workshop
April 9, 2008 Studs Terkel Community Media Awards
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• Download the Pledge Sheet
• 2007 Studs Terkel Awards event
• Learn about our Columbia College Terkel Scholarship
Please join us for the 2008 Studs Terkel Community Media Awards. The Terkel Awards will be held Wednesday, April 9, 2008 from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Chicago Cultural Center in G.A.R. Hall and the Claudia Cassidy Theater.
Presented annually, the Studs Terkel Community Media Awards honor outstanding media professionals for excellence in covering and reflecting Chicago's diverse communities. View Photo Gallery
The Terkel Awards highlight reporters who take risks in covering social issues by offering new or unusual perspectives on topics of general concern, from housing to neighborhood safety and beyond. The awards honor journalists for going the extra mile in sourcing stories and thoughtful treatment of context. The awards reward a body of work rather than a single article or series, and go to journalists at any stage of their career.
This Year's Winners
Tom McNamee
Tom McNamee is not one of those journalists who knew what he was going to do from the time he was a child. Instead, the idea came as "a mini-epiphany" when he was a year into college, on a perfect summer night --June 27, 1973 to be exact--strolling up North Michigan Avenue with a friend. A homeless man curled against the gold revolving doors of the Wrigley Building made a stark contrast to the tourists and other dressed-up strollers around them. "I told Barb, 'if I were a newspaper reporter, I could walk up to that guy and find out what I want to know anyway--why are you here, what happened to you?'" McNamee recalls. [News: Tom has taken the new role as editorial page editor at the Sun-Times, replacing Cheryl Reed]. Read More
Radio Arte, 90.5 FM
Chicago's "Latino-owned, youth-driven, bilingual public radio station" is putting news at the center of an ambitious expansion of programming. First Voice, in English and Spanish, Sin Papeles (Undocumented), Homofrecuencia and, since January, simulcast public affairs shows in partnership with national outlets such as Hispanic Information and Television Network and Radio Bilingue make this a station to watch. As changes in the news business bring new models to the forefront--including youth journalists--General Manager Silvia Rivera and the rest of the small staff of Radio Arte are serving Chicago's Latinos by training youth to tell stories about themselves and the community at large, reporting the strengths and challenges people in the community face. Read More
Dawn Turner Trice, Chicago Tribune
Some reporters have a nose for news, and some columnists have a soapbox to stand on. Dawn Turner Trice has an eye for the visual, an ear for the cadence, rhythm and melody of her sources' voices, and an instinct for stories. "I can see a story and sniff it out … look at a person and tell if there's a story there," she says. Growing up in Bronzeville's Theodore K. Lawless apartments sandwiched between the upper crust in Lake Meadows and tenants at Ida B. Wells public housing development, Dawn watched her African-American community sub-divide: she remembers roaming the 'hood in the 1970s, then saw a chain-link fence go up, later to be replaced by wrought iron. Looking back, she sees the fences as metaphor for race and class. Read More
• Register for the Event
• Download the Pledge Sheet
• 2007 Studs Terkel Awards event
• Learn about our Columbia College Terkel Scholarship
Sponsors:
Nelson Algren Level Sponsors
John Ayers and Judi Minter
Michael Burke and Robert Charles
Chicago Public Radio
Antoinette Korotko-Hatch
Previously honored
2007
• Mary Helt Gavin, Publisher of the Evanston Roundtable - Her remarks upon receiving her award
• Stephen Franklin, Labor and Workplace Reporter for The Chicago Tribune
• WRTO 1200 AM, La Tremenda (Univision Radio Network)
2006
• Mark Brown, columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times - His remarks upon receiving his award
• Renee Ferguson, reporter for WMAQ-TV/NBC5
• Mary Johns and the Editorial Team at Residents' Journal
2005
• Tracy Baim, Windy City Media - Her remarks upon receiving her award
• John Conroy, Chicago Reader - His remarks upon receiving his award
• Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune - Her remarks upon receiving her award
• James Weinstein, In These Times
2004
• Alex Kotlowitz, Journalist and Author - His remarks
• Linda Lutton, Daily Southtown
• Phil Ponce, Chicago Tonight, WTTW
2003
• Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune & WGN - His remarks
• Jorge Mota, Channel 44, Telemundo
• Tom Weinberg, Image Union, WTTW
2002
• Shirley Jahad, WBEZ-FM
• Phil Kadner, Daily Southtown
• Curtis Lawrence, Chicago Sun-Times
• WVON-AM 1450
2001
• Cornelia Grumman, Chicago Tribune
• Martha Irvine, Associated Press
• Salim Muwakkil, In These Times and Chicago Tribune
2000
• Lee Bey, Chicago Sun-Times
• Ira Glass, WBEZ
• Teresa Puente, Chicago Tribune
1999
• Jon Anderson, Chicago Tribune
• John White, Chicago Sun-Times
• Laura Washington, Chicago Reporter
• Harry Porterfield, WLS Channel 7 News
1998
• Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune
• Ben Hollis, Wild Chicago
• Chinta Strausberg, Chicago Daily Defender
1997
• Don Terry, New York Times
• Mary Mitchell, Chicago Sun-Times
• John McDermott, The Chicago Reporter
1996
• Ray Suarez, National Public Radio
• Achy Obejas, Chicago Tribune
• Carol Marin, NBC Channel 5 News
1995
• Vernon Jarrett, Chicago Tribune and Sun Times
• Charles Nicodemus, Chicago Sun-Times
• Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader
1994
• M. W. Newman, Chicago Daily News and Sun-Times
• David Moberg, In These Times
• Cheryl Corley, National Public Radio
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