2002 KATY RECKDAHL — Completed a year-long investigation of juvenile justice in Louisiana, although she is continuing to follow some of the cases she reported. Gambit , an alternative New Orleans weekly. The series included nine stories and sidebars. Reckdahl was named “journalist of the year” by the Louisiana Mental Health Association for her work. ...
2002 KEN SILVERSTEIN — Investigated Leonid Minin and other shadowy arms dealers who sell weapons to terrorists and rogue regimes in the January/February 2002 issue of The Washington Monthly. ...
2002 CAROLYN JOHNSEN — Examined the environmental, economic and social effects of “hog factory” farms in the Midwest in a book titled Raising a Stink. It was published by the University of Nebraska Press. ...
2002 GALINA GOTUA — Investigated the poisoning of people in the Republic of Georgia by a radiation leak from a Strontium-90 generator. Her article was published by the newspaper Georgia Today, including an English-language version published in the U.S. ...
2002 KATY RECKDAHL — Scaling Back examined devastating budget cuts faced by the New Orleans Legal Assistance Corp., which has argued thousands of civil cases on behalf of the poor over a 35-year period. Another article examined police harassment of kids who tap dance for spare change on street corners, a long tradition in New Orleans, because local authorities have ...
2002 MARY ANN SWISSLER — The Marketing of Breast Cancer investigated the Susan G. Komen Foundation, sponsor of the “Race for the Cure,” and its emphasis on finding a medical cure for breast cancer. Her story was published by Southern Exposure magazine and distributed over the Internet by AlterNet.org. ...
2002 JOE RODRIGUEZ — East Side Stories, a photojournalism book examining gang in Los Angeles. His book was published by Powerhouse Books. ...
2002 THE ADIRONDAK EXPLORER — Completed a two-year series of stories about development pressures facing Adirondack Park and the failure of officials to properly address the problem. ...
2002 JIMMIE BRIGGS — Guerilla Girls, a story investigating the use of girls as suicide bombers by Tamil rebels in Sri Lanka. The story was published by Bust magazine and was the basis for a report aired on ABC’s 20/20. ...
2001 NAFTALI MUNGAI — Investigated extensive environmental damage and associated issues of corruption involving titanium mining in Kenya by the Canadian-owned company Tiomin Resources Inc. His article was published in The People (Nairobi). ...