2009 HCMA application [PDF]
The Harry Chapin Media Awards, formerly the World Hunger Media Awards, were created in 1982 to encourage the media to "tell the story of hunger and poverty." The Media Awards honor print and electronic media for their outstanding coverage that positively impacts hunger, poverty and self-reliance. The Media Awards also honor work that focuses on the causes of hunger and poverty and the forces creating self-reliance. This includes work on economic inequality and insecurity, unemployment, homelessness, domestic and international policies and their reform, community empowerment, sustainable development, food production, agriculture, nutrition and the struggle for land.
The Awards cover six media categories: Newspaper, Magazines, TV/Film,Radio, Photojournalism and Books.Harry Chapin Media Awards — 2008
Newspapers: "Forced Out," Debbie Cenziper and Sarah Cohen (The Washington Post).
Broadcast: "Safe Haven," Alex Shey, Karen Foshay and Judy Muller (KCET).
Radio: "A New Life on a Foreclosed Home," Anita Shontel Woodley, Dick Gordon and Greg Kelly (The Story/North Carolina Public Radio).
Periodicals: "Hunger Hits Home," Aliya Sternstein (CQ Weekly).
Books: The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous: Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina, Ken Wells (Yale University Press).
Photojournalism: "Stranded in the Middle Ground," Greg Constantine (The Himal Southasian).
Judges' Awards: Newspaper - "The Spoils," Lydia Polgreen (The New York Times); and Broadcast - "Wild Hostile North: The Forgotten Country," Peter Moss (Kenya Television Network).
Broadcast: "Safe Haven," Alex Shey, Karen Foshay and Judy Muller (KCET).
Radio: "A New Life on a Foreclosed Home," Anita Shontel Woodley, Dick Gordon and Greg Kelly (The Story/North Carolina Public Radio).
Periodicals: "Hunger Hits Home," Aliya Sternstein (CQ Weekly).
Books: The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous: Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina, Ken Wells (Yale University Press).
Photojournalism: "Stranded in the Middle Ground," Greg Constantine (The Himal Southasian).
Judges' Awards: Newspaper - "The Spoils," Lydia Polgreen (The New York Times); and Broadcast - "Wild Hostile North: The Forgotten Country," Peter Moss (Kenya Television Network).
