2010 TIM MATSUI – The Seattle photojournalist traveled to Cambodia to document human trafficking. He contributed to a multi-media investigative series on trafficking published online by KUOW Radio (Seattle). ...
2010 CHRISTOPHER PALA — Christopher Pala investigated the activities of a Honolulu-based fishing advisory council called Wespac. He found that it liberally distributed grants and travel perks to leading politicians in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas for years to ensure their loyalty. They then obligingly backed Wespac in vociferously opposing the creation by President George W. Bush of the ...
2009 HABIBA NOSHEEN AND HILKE SCHELLMANN – Co-producers of an investigative documentary on surrogacy, Wombs for Rent, that aired on NOW on PBS on Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. ...
Chicago Tribune reporters Jason Grotto and Tim Jones authored a chilling five-part series, Agent Orange: A Lethal Legacy, describing the devastating health consequences suffered by U.S. military veterans and Vietnamese nationals who were exposed to Agent Orange and other dioxin-laced defoliants during the war in Vietnam. Birth defects have extended the impact to a second generation. But the U.S. government ...
2009 GREG BOSNAN & JENNIFER SZYMASZEK — Greg Brosnan and Jennifer Szymaszek produced a video, Guatemala: A Tale of Two Villages, that appears on Frontline Rough Cuts website. It tells about the Guatemalans who were rounded up in a large immigration raid in Postville, Iowa, and sent back to their home country. ...
2009 JONATHAN GREEN — Murder in the High Himalaya, a book by Jonathan Green about the brutal murder of a 17-year-old nun fleeing to India by Chinese border guards. Will be published in the Spring of 2010. “Murder in the High Himalaya is the unforgettable account of the brutal killing of Kelsang Namtso—a seventeen-year-old Tibetan nun fleeing to India—by Chinese ...
2009 HAL HERRING — Hal Herring wrote an article in Miller-McCune magazine about the plans of St. Joseph Company to develop large areas of timberland in the Florida panhandle: The Panhandle Paradox. ...
2009 SCOTT CARNEY — Scott Carney’s Meet the Parents – Confronting the Dark Side of Overseas Adoption was published in Mother Jones in its March/April 2009 issue with both photos and text. The article is a poignant and powerful account about children kidnapped in Indian slums, sold to orphanages and sent to foreign countries for adoption and the lack of ...
2009 THOMAS A. BASS — Thomas A. Bass’ The Spy Who Loved Us was published by PublicAffairs in 2009. “Pham Xuan An was a brilliant journalist and an even better spy. A long-time correspondent for Time and friendly with all the legendary reporters covering Vietnam, he was an invaluable source of news and font of wisdom on all things Vietnamese. ...
2009 PRATAP CHATTERLEE — Pratap Chatterlee’s Halliburton’s Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War, published by Nation Books, was written up in Vanity Fair and praised in other reviews. The book received FIJ’S 2005 Robert I. Friedman award. “From Halliburton’s vital mission as the logistical backbone of the U.S. occupation in Iraq—without it there could ...