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2009 Casey Medal. Awarded for exemplary reporting on children and families. Stories must be published or aired in 2008. Application are due on March 4, 2009. Learn More. Learn More.
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Awards. The Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism honor distinguished coverage of disadvantaged children and families. First-place winners receive $1,000 and are honored at a luncheon in Washington, D.C. Runners-up and honorable mentions are recognized with certificates of merit. Categories include newspapers, magazines, television, radio, online and photojournalism. More than 3,900 journalists have applied for Casey Medals since 1994. Eligible work must be published or broadcast between January 1 and December 31, of the previous year. Awards are funded by the Annie E.Casey Foundation.

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Go behind the scenes with past Casey Medal winners.

2008 Casey Medal Winners
Chris Davis, Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Joshua Kors, The Nation
Catherine Winter, American RadioWorks

2007 Casey Medal Winners

Tanya Ballard, The Washington Post and WashingtonPost.com

Tina A. Brown and Elizabeth Hamilton, The Hartford Courant

Renée C. Byer, The Sacramento Bee

Marcus Chan, San Francisco Chronicle

John Sullivan, The Philadelphia Inquirer

2006 Casey Medal Winners

Mary McDermott, WISH-TV

Karen Pulfer Focht, The Commercial Appeal

Daniel Alpert,The Kindling Group

Amy Upshaw, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

2005 Casey Medal Winners

Cornelia Grumman, Chicago Tribune

Angie Moreschi, Bill Ditton and Gerry Lanosga, WTHR-TV

Nadya Labi, Legal Affairs magazine

2004 Casey Medal Winners

Patricia Wen, The Boston Globe

Don Bartletti, Los Angeles Times

Michelle Trudeau, NPR

 

The Journalism Center is funded by The Annie E. Casey Foundation, McCormick Foundation, Ms. Foundation for Women, Challenge Fund for Journalism, Freddie Mac Foundation and individual donors.
the 2008 Casey Medals. CJC announces the year's best child/family coverage.
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Entries for the 2009 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism are due March 4, 2009. More>
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