2003 SALUTE TO EXCELLENCE
AWARD WINNERS
(PART I)

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Newspaper Photojournalism
Photography: Single Image
1st Place Matt Detrich, The Indianapolis Star
“ A Child Shall Lead Them”

Newsday Photojournalism
Photography: Single Image
2nd Place Milbert Brown Jr., Chicago Tribune
“ In Mama's Arms”

Newspaper Photojournalism
Photography: Multiple Images
1st Place Betty Udesen, The Seattle Times
“ In Her Mother's Shoes”

Newspaper
Circulation 150,000 & Under
Enterprise
1st Place - Rob McCurdy, News Journal,
" What Killed Corey Jones"
2nd Place - Mark Houser, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,
" A Jury of Peers?"

Newspaper
Circulation 150,000 & Under
Commentary
1st Place Jim Schutze, Dallas Observer
“ Crossing Division Street”

Newspaper
Circulation 150,000 & Under
Commentary
2nd Place Bob Norman, New Times Broward/Palm Beach
“Down on the Plantation I, II, III”

Newspaper
Circulation 150,000 & Under
Commentary
3rd Place John Fisher, Danville Register and Bee
“ A Moment Spent, A Lifetime Remembered”

Newspaper
Circulation 150,000 & Under
Features
1st Place Jeannette Batz, Riverfront Times
“ Judgment at Hookyville”

Newspaper
Circulation 150,000 & Under
Features
2nd Place Susan Eastman, New Times Broward/Palm Beach
“ Not Kid Stuff”

Newspaper
Circulation 150,000 & Under
Features
3rd Place Julie Lyons, Dallas Observer
“ 12-Year-Old Killer and Boy in the Big House”

Newspaper
Circulation 150,000 & Under
Sports
1st Place - Julie Lyons, Dallas Observer, " Back in Bounds"

Newspaper
Circulation 150,000 & Under
Business
1st Place Thomas Francis, Cleveland Scene
“ Hip-Hopcrisy”

Newspaper
Circulation 150,000 & Under
Business
2nd Place Lynda Edwards, Daily Business Review
“ Building on the Past”

Newspaper
Circulation Over 150,000
Commentary
1st Place Kevin Merida, The Washington Post
“ Series of 2002 Columns”

Newspaper
Circulation Over 150,000
Commentary
2nd Place Shaun Powell, Newsday
“ Sept. 10, 2001: A Last Good Day”

Newspaper
Circulation Over 150,000
Commentary
3rd Place Eugene Kane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“ Series of 2002 Columns”

Newspaper
Circulation Over 150,000
Daily News
1st Place Daily News Staff, Philadelphia Daily News
“ You Go, Girl!”

Newspaper
Circulation Over 150,000
Daily News
2nd Place Jeffery Mays, Ted Sherman and Nikita Stewart, The Star-Ledger
“ Newark Mayoral Race 2002”

Newspaper
Circulation Over 150,000
Daily News
3rd Place Jason Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
“ Recalculating the Price of Human Bondage”

Newspaper
Circulation Over 150,000
Enterprise
"Hiding In Plain View"
Norman Sinclair, Ronald Hansen, Melvin Claxton
Detroit News

Honorable Mention - Staff, The Birmingham News,
" Alabama's Black Belt"Enterprise 150,000 & Over


Features 150,000 & Over
1st place
"Crossed Paths in Africa"
Wil Haygood
The Washington Post

2nd place
Forgotten Every Step of the Way
Christine Evans
The Palm Beach Post

3rd place
Music For Medgar
Willa Conrad
The Star Ledger

Newspaper
Circulation Over 150,000
Sports
Honorable Mention - Mike Bolton, Bob Carlton and Doug Segrest,
The Birmingham News, "Mr. Football"

Magazine
Circulation Over 1 Million
1st Place Ellis Cose, Newsweek
“ Series of 2002 Columns”

Magazine
Circulation Over 1 Million
2nd Place Cora Daniels and Martha Sutro, Fortune Magazine
“ The Most Powerful Black Executives in America”

Magazine
Circulation Over 1 Million
3rd Place Allison Samuels, Newsweek
“ Will It Be Denzel's Day”

Magazine
Circulation Under 1 Million
1st Place Lottie Joiner, The Crisis Magazine
“ Down In The Delta”

Magazine
Circulation Under 1 Million
2nd Place Farah Stockman, The Boston Globe Magazine
“ Biracial Like Me”

Magazine
Circulation Under 1 Million
3rd Place Amy Barnett, Honey Magazine
“ Killing Me Softly”

Newspaper
Circulation Over 150,000
Editing
1st Place Kathy Harris, Forth Worth Star-Telegram
“ The Color Of Hate”

Newspaper
Circulation Over 150,000
Sports
1st Place Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press
“ Dreams Deferred 2002”

Newspaper
Circulation Over 150,000
Sports
2nd Place Mark Kram, Philadelphia Daily News
“ Dukes of Death”

Newspaper
Circulation Over 150,000
Sports
3rd Place Greg Bishop, The Star-Ledger
“ Family Ties”

Art & Design: Graphics
1st Place John Labbé, The Crisis Magazine
“ A Taste Of Our Own Medicine”

Art & Design: Page Design
1st Place W. Matt Pinkney, Forth Worth Star-Telegram
“ Tarrant County's Black History”

BROADCAST (RADIO)

Radio
News Enterprise/Documentary
1st Place Ellin O'Leary, Youth Radio
“ Welcome to My World”

Radio
News Enterprise/Documentary
2nd Place Toni Randolph, WBUR-FM
“ Harvard Black Studies”

Radio
Features
1st Place Toni Randolph, WBUR-FM
“ Grandfamilies House”

Radio
Features
2nd Place April Baer, 90.3 WCPN Ideastream
“ Pete Cary, Broadcast Pioneer”

Radio
Features
3rd Place Askia Muhammad, NPR, The Tavis Smiley Show
“ Ethel Payne Postage Stamp”

Radio
Sports Commentary
1st Place Askia Muhammad, NPR, The Tavis Smiley Show
“ Mike Tyson: Check Yourself”

Radio
Commentary
1st Place Askia Muhammad, NPR, The Tavis Smiley Show
“ Mississippi and My Memories”

Radio
News
1st Place Bob Butler, KCBS Radio
“ The Lezhan Williams Story”

Radio
News
Honorable Mention Allison Keyes, WCBS News Radio 880/WNYC Radio
“ Follow Up Coverage 9-11”

BROADCAST (TELEVISION)

Network & Top 15 Market Size
Public Affairs
1st Place Dan Rather and Michael Rosenbaun, CBS News/60 Minutes II
“ The Blind Boys”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
Public Affairs
2nd Place Vickie Mabrey, CBS News/60 Minutes II
“ Compilation of Work in 2002”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
Public Affairs
3rd Place Gail Frendley and Judy Valente, PBS, Thirteen/WNET
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
“ AIDS and the African-American Church”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
Features/Short
Honorable Mention Daniel Slepian, Scott Pelley and David Schneider, NBC News/Dateline
“ Lean on Him?”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
News/Short
1st Place Steve Osunsami and Edward Pinder, ABC News/World News Tonight With Peter Jennings
“ Compensating the Wrongly Imprisoned”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
News/Short
2nd Place Thalia Assuras, Larry Doyle, Bobbi Harley, Dick Jefferson, Anthony Mason, John Mondella, Alberto Moya, Kristen Muller, Jonn Roberts and Patrica Shevlin, CBS News/ Weekend Edition
“ Access to Healthcare”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
News/Short
3rd Place James Masiri, Earl Milloy and Kelly Sudduth, WLS-TV
“ Lost in Chicago”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
International Reporting
1st Place Pete Hakel, Horace Holmes and Becky Kellogg, WJLA-TV
“ The Antigua Connection”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
International Reporting
2nd Place Alphonso Van Marsh, CNN International
“ One Man Band Reporting From Afghanistan”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
Documentary
1st Place Elise Warner, MSNBC
“ MSNBC Special: Islam In America: Faith Under Fire”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
Environmental Reporting
1st Place Jacqueline Denn, Brian Dolan and Leah Hope, WLS-TV
“ Shades of Beauty”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
Environmental Reporting
2nd Place Harvey Golderg and Steve Osunsami, ABC News/World News Tonight With Peter Jennings
“ Fat Standards”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
News/Long
1st Place Karen Travers and Artis Waters, ABC News
“ America in Black and White: Home Court Disadvantage”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
News/Long
2nd Place Elissa Rubin, ABC News
“ America in Black and White: Race and Justice”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
News/Long
3rd Place Gary Reaves, WFAA-TV
“ Talking Race”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
Sports
1st Place Jeff Collette, Sean Hamilton, Arnold Payne and Dale Hansen, WFAA-TV
“ On Route 22: The Emmitt Smith Story”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
Sports
2nd Place Jon Baime, Cecil Fielder, Larry Lawson and Lori Metoyer, MBC Network
“ Black Ice”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
Enterprise
1st Place Becky Kellogg and Del Walters, WJLA-TV
“ Security Scandal”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
Enterprise
2nd Place Russ Mitchell and Michael Teng, CBS Evening News (Weekend)
“ Roots”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
Features/Short
1st Place Andrea Montalbano, NBC News/Today
“ Lanier Phillips: The Gift”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
Features/Short
2nd Place Cy Dodson and Rod Rassman, KSTP-TV
“ Kwan’s Dream”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
Features/Short
3rd Place Rita Braver, Judy Hole and Nancy Wyatt, CBS News Sunday Morning
“ Coming Home”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
Features/Long
1st Place Jill Rosenbarn, ABC News
“ Seed School”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
Features/Long
2nd Place Artis Waters, ABC News
“ Nightline Up Close: Tyrone Willingham”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
Features/Long
3rd Place Mike Wallace, CBS News/60 Minutes
“ Going Home”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
Features/Long
Honorable Mention Richelle Rogers, ABC News
“ Dr. Ben Carson”

Network & Top 15 Market Size
TV Photojournalism
1st Place Evans Risher, WFAA-TV
“ Cowboys of Color Rodeo Tour”

Market Size 16 & Below
International Reporting
1st Place Steve Crump, WBTV
“ Forgotten Famine”

Market Size 16 & Below
Public Affairs
1st Place Michelle Parker and Bob Thomas, KECI-TV
“ Brother Love”

Market Size 16 & Below
Enterprise
1st Place Tim Arnheim, Darran Caudle, Tony Pipitone and Brent Singleton, WKMG-TV
“ Justice in Black White and Shades of Gray”

Market Size 16 & Below
Enterprise
2nd Place Valorie Carter, ABC
“ Alabama's Black Belt”

Market Size 16 & Below
Enterprise
3rd Place Darian Trotter, WFTV-9
“ Hotel Rates During Black College Reunion”

Market Size 16 & Below
Documentary
1st Place Steve Crump, WTVI
“ Carolina Bebop Kings”

Market Size 16 & Below
Features/Long
1st Place Nathaniel Howard, Maryland Public TV
“ Patrick Henry”

Market Size 16 & Below
Features/Short
1st Place Susan Ellerbee, GTV- Howard County Government Information Channel
“ A Journey Back: The Ellicott City Colored School”

Market Size 16 & Below
Features/Short
2nd Place Steve Crump, WBTV
“ Dizzy's Homecoming”

Market Size 16 & Below
Features/Short
3rd Place Ben Watson, WMC TV News
“ Howard Bingham & Muhammad Ali”

NEW MEDIA

1st place
"Against Their Will"
Online Staff of Journal Now.Com
The Winston Salem Journal/Journalnow.com

2nd place
And Justice For All
Michelle Preli, Andy Court and Others
MSNBC/Date Line NBC

3rd place
Crack: Up in Smoke
Stephanie A. Crickett and Amy Adkins
BET.com