Meet the Studs Terkel Community Media Award winners!
Two outstanding broadcast journalists, serving predominately Latino communities, and an independent reporter steeped in Chicago’s shifting political scene will receive the 2012 Studs Terkel Community Media Award, announced today by the nonprofit Community Media Workshop. Honorees include: Maria Hinojosa, Host, Latino USA, National Public Radio; Chip Mitchell,WBEZ-Chicago Public Media; and Mick Dumke, Chicago Reader.
They join the roster of over four-dozen journalists recognized by the Workshop and the late Studs Terkel as representing some of Chicago’s finest media professionals. They will receive their awards at the Workshop’s 23rd anniversary benefit on March 14, 2012, at the Columbia College Chicago’s Film Row Cinema, 1104 S Wabash, Chicago.
The Community Media Workshop held the 22nd annual Studs Terkel Community Media Awards Wednesday night at the Chicago Cultural Center. Catalyst Chicago’s Founder Linda Lenz, Freelance Reporter Kari Lydersen, and the Chicago Tribune’s Antonio Olivo received awards for outstanding reporting on Chicago’s diverse communities and the people who live here.
Studs, long considered the Workshop’s patron saint, is missed. The 2007 event was the last time he was able to attend, and he passed away in 2008. The Workshop continues to host the Awards to remember the great work of Studs Terkel and to honor those journalists who follow in his footsteps. Last night, we honored Studs with a moving video about one of his most famous books “Working.” As Studs said, “I think everybody would like to be remembered.” Take a look.
When: 5-8 PM, Wednesday, March 9 Where : Claudia Cassidy Theater & G.A.R. Hall
Chicago Cultural Center – 77 E. Randolph - Click here to view a map
Studs Terkel used to say that no one is ordinary, and Studs was definitely no exception to that proclamation. Studs Terkel was an author, interviewer, storyteller, and friend. It’s time once again to honor the “patron saint” of Community Media Workshop, and we hope you will join us in a celebration of his life and work at the Studs Terkel Community Media Awards.
An enthusiastic Workshop congratulations goes to Devin Katayama (pictured left), who wins this year’s Studs Terkel Scholarship. Katayama recently received his graduate degree in journalism from Columbia College. His thesis project, “Raising Abel,” a radio story about homeless youth, demonstrates an extraordinary zeal for storytelling, and, in his professor’s words, “… [I]s in the tradition of Studs Terkel’s focus on giving voice to the voiceless through the medium of radio.”
Clark knows the work of the journalists he’s honoring — not simply the one or two nice pieces that can be excavated from any pile of drivel to snow a judge but the full body of work. He’s finicky and sentimental. He likes to hail long, distinguished careers and to sing the praises of community journalists previously unsung. As community journalists work in trenches where few flowers grow, there’s a rich supply of those.
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