Community Media Workshop
2009 Studs Terkel Community Media Awards
Save the date for the the 2010 Studs Terkel Community Media Awards on March 10, 2010
Thank you for supporting the Community Media Workshop. Our 2009 20th Anniversary Studs Terkel Community Media Awards was a huge success. We hope you can join us again next year.
For those who could not make it, watch "Our Studs" a video of Chicago journalists remembering Studs and winning the Studs Terkel award.
Check out the slide show of the event at Chicago Public Radio. Photos by Bob Black & Olga Lopez.
Congratulations to this year's winners
David Jackson, Chicago Tribune
David Jackson got his first reporting internship at Chicago magazine in the 1980s when it was housed at WFMT. One of the first people he met was Studs Terkel, who David recalls introduced himself by coming by where I worked and saying, "I want to meet some young people. Can you help me?"
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Read his acceptance speech
Alden Loury, The Chicago Reporter
For Alden Loury, the road to editor and publisher of The Chicago Reporter started when he was in seventh grade in front of the TV with the sound down and the game on so he could practice calling the plays. 
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Scott Simon, National Public Radio
Listeners often assume the host of National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition with Scott Simon" is speaking from a studio in Chicago. It's easy to see why they might think so: a recent Lexis search shows hundreds of stories on the show from or about Chicago, which Scott has called "our program's Lake Woebegone-an improbable place populated by eccentric characters who sometimes seemed almost real."
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Thom Clark, Community Media Workshop
Thom once thought he might be a priest but like many young idealists of the 1960s found a different path. In the early 1970s, called to witness for peace during the Vietnam War, he and several friends reacted against Chicago protests that they saw as violent and ineffective by announcing plans to take direct action against a local draft board. They decided to highlight the spiraling violence in Southeast Asia by spilling blood on draftee records. Read More
Read the award presentation to Thom Clark by Salim Muwakkil
Learn more about the awards or view past winners here
Much more than a party, our 20th Anniversary Awards will celebrate the talent in our ever-changing media landscape as well as Studs' phenomenal life. We will honor journalists who go the extra mile to report news "from the people who made Chicago, news that's bottom up rather than up, down," as Studs said at our 2007 awards event. "That's what this is all about."
Continue Studs Legacy by Sponsoring the 20th Anniversary Studs Terkel Community Media Awards. Thanks to the generous underwriting of The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, your support will go even further in helping organizations change policy.
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We here at the Community Media Workshop are very saddened by the loss of who we consider our patron saint.
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Listen to Thom Clark's Tribute to Studs Terkel from WNUA's City Voices.
2009 Studs Terkel Scholarship
Community Media Workshop will give $2,000 to a student with the best grassroots class project at our annual Studs Terkel Awards March 11, 2009.
For more information, download Scholarship Submission Sheet
Watch the 2008 Studs Terkel Community Media Awards
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