The 2018 Journalism Awards winners chronicled the experience of being a student of color in advanced high school classes, the epidemic of sexual harassment in media and entertainment and the increasing hostility to refugees in Europe. Their fearless exploration of controversial topics comes at a time of increasing government attacks on the press both in the United States and abroad.
The 2018 Book Awards honor Timothy Tyson for The Blood of Emmett Till and Peter Edelman with a 50th anniversary special recognition for Not a Crime to Be Poor.
Ethel Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy and Book Award Chair and emcee Michael Beschloss will present winners with their prizes.
Program:
* Welcome: Michael Beschloss
* Remarks: Joe Kennedy III
* Remarks: Kerry Kennedy
* Presentation of the 50th Annual Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, Student and Professional Categories: Margaret Engel
* Presentation of John Siegenthaler Prize: Margaret Engel
* Presentation of the 38th Annual Robert F. Kennedy Book Award: Michael Beschloss
* Remarks by Award Winner: Timothy Tyson
* Presentation of the 50th Anniversary Special Recognition Book Award: Michael Beschloss
* Remarks by Award Winner: Peter Edelman
* Closing Remarks: Michael Beschloss
“Journalists in the United States are under attack. Government officials have called reporters ‘enemies of the state’ and ‘the enemy.’ Reporters have faced attempts to limit the free press and to delegitimize the role of facts in public life,” said Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights President Kerry Kennedy. “We are proud to recognize those who expose injustice and hold our leaders to the highest standards of accountability.”
FULL LIST OF JOURNALISM AWARD WINNERS
* High School Broadcast -- “I Wasn’t Comfortable: Being a Student of Color in Garfield High’s Advanced Classes” -- KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio -- Jessie Nguyen, Carlin Bills, and Surya Hendry
* High School Print -- “One Incredible Goal”-- Francis Howell North High School, St. Charles, Missouri -- Sarah Zimmerman
* College Journalism -- “Home Sick” -- Capital News Service and Baltimore Urban Affairs Reporting Class -- Mark Boyle, Quanny Carr, Michael Errigo, Abby Mergenmeier, Jenna Milliner-Waddell, John Powers, Talia Richman, Jacob Taylor, Naema Ahmed, Ana Hurler, Helen Lyons and Daniel Trielli
* Print - Domestic -- “Harassed” -- The New York Times -- Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey, Emily Steel, Michael S. Schmidt, Susan Chira, Catrin Einhorn, Katie Benner, Rachel Abrams, Ellen Gabler, Susan Dominus, Jim Rutenberg, Steve Eder, Melena Ryzik and Cara Buckley
* Print - International -- “Rohingya Exodus” -- Associated Press -- Associated Press with the support of The Pulitzer Center. Todd Pitman, Kristen Gelineau, Robin McDowell, Esther Htusan, Muneeza Naqvi, Maye-E Wong, Rishabh Raj Jain, Bernat Armangue, Gemunu Amarasinghe and Dar Yasin
* Photography - Domestic -- “Maria’s Bodies” -- New York Magazine -- Matt Black
* Photography - International -- “Mexico’s Misery” -- The Washington Post -- Michael Robinson Chavez, Joshua Partlow, Nick Kirkpatrick, and MaryAnne Golon
* Radio -- “Help Wanted: Alabama’s Rural Health Care Crisis” -- Alabama Public Radio -- Pat Duggins, Stan Ingold, and Alex AuBuchon
* New Media -- “Europe Slams its Gates” -- Foreign Policy -- Ty McCormick, Nichole Sobecki, Peter Tinti, Jill Filipovic, Cameron Abadi and staff
* Cartoon -- “Tom the Dancing Bug” -- Syndicated by Andrews McMeel Syndication -- Ruben Bolling, Andrews McMeel Syndication, Boing Boing, Daily Kos, and GoComics
* Television - Domestic -- “Let it Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992” -- ABC News, Lincoln Square Productions -- John Ridley, Jeanmarie Condon, Fatima Curry, Melia Patria and Colin Rich
* Television - International -- “Iraq Uncovered” -- FRONTLINE in association with Channel 4 -- Ramita Navai, Paddy Wells, Raney Aronson, Dan Edge, Andrew Metz, Eamonn Matthews, Monica Garnsey, Mais Al-Bayaa, Natalie Triebwasser, John Moratiel, Ella Newton, and Steve Audette
ROBERT F. KENNEDY BOOK AWARD WINNER
* Book Award -- The Blood of Emmett Till -- Timothy B. Tyson -- Simon & Schuster
* Special Recognition -- Not a Crime to be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America -- Peter Edelman -- The New Press
About Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Led by human rights activist and lawyer Kerry Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights has advocated for a more just and peaceful world since 1968. We work alongside local activists to ensure lasting positive change in governments and corporations. Whether in the United States or abroad, our programs have pursued justice through strategic litigation on key human rights issues, educated millions of children in human rights advocacy and fostered a social good approach to business and investment.
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards
Founded by the reporters who covered Robert F. Kennedy's historic 1968 presidential campaign, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards honor outstanding reporting on issues that reflect Robert Kennedy's concerns, including human rights, social justice, and the power of individual action in the United States and around the world. Winning entries in 13 categories provide insights into the causes, conditions, and remedies of human rights violations and injustice, and critical analyses of relevant policies, programs, individual actions, and private endeavors that foster positive change.
Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
The Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was founded in 1980 with the proceeds from Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s best-selling biography, Robert Kennedy and His Times. Each year, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights presents an award to the book that, as Schlesinger said, "most faithfully and forcefully reflects Robert Kennedy’s purposes – his concern for the poor and the powerless, his struggle for honest and even-handed justice, his conviction that a decent society must assure all young people a fair chance, and his faith that a free democracy can act to remedy disparities of power and opportunity."
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