The winners of the 2009 Harry Chapin Media Awards were chosen by an independent panel of judges:
Books: Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty by Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman. Judges’ Award: Let’s Get Free: A Hip Hop Justice by Paul Butler.
Television/Film: Trouble the Water by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal
Newspapers: "Deadly Detention" by Nina Bernstein (The New York Times)
New Media: "Childhood Poverty in Colorado" by Tim Rasmussen (The Denver Post)
Periodical: "There Goes the Neighborhood" by Alyssa Katz ( The American Prospect)
Photojournalism: "Open Wounds: Bhopal 1984-2009" Alex Masi (The Guardian, Time Online, Vanity Fair Italy and BBC)
The panel of judges were: Albert Bozzo, senior news editor in charge of features and special reports at CNBC.com; Jonathan Curiel, journalist and author of "Al' America: Travels Through America's Arab and Islamic Roots;" LynNell Hancock, reporter and writer specializing in education and child and family policy issues, and a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism; Melanie Mannarino, deputy executive editor of Redbook; Elizabeth McDonald, Stocks Editor, Fox Business Network; Laura Silver, freelance journalist/advocate; Kerry Truemann, co-founder of Eatingliberally.org and a frequent contributor to Huffington Post; and Erica Zolberg, freelance television producer.
The winners and finalists will be honored at the Harry Chapin Media Awards Ceremony, presented by WhyHunger and Mediabistro, on Sept. 28, 2010 at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square, New York City.
