NLIHC Media Awards Previous Winners
Daily Newspaper Single Story
Circulation above 100,000
“Public Housing Left Behind - Housing the Poor”
by Ramit Plushnick Masti
Associated Press (Pittsburgh, PA)
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Daily Newspaper Series of Articles
Circulation less than 100,000
“Halfway to Homeless”
by Elizabeth Ryan
Chattanooga Times Free Press (Chattanooga, TN)
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Daily Newspaper Series of Articles
Circulation above 100,000
“Section 8: Subsidizing Suburbia”
by Gregory Korte and Jane Prendergast
Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH)
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Honorable Mention
Daily Newspaper Series of Articles
Circulation above 100,000
“The War Against Affordable Housing”
by Bob Shaw
St. Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN)
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Daily Newspaper Single Story
Circulation above 100,000
“Foreclosures Hidden Victims - The Tenants”
by Carolyn Said
The San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA)
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Daily Newspaper Series of Articles
Circulation above 100,000
“Housing Shortage Dire in Post-Katrina New Orleans”
by Katy Reckdahl
The Times Picayune (New Orleans, LA)
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Single Story: Daily Newspaper (circulation less than 100,000)
"Sewage Pipe Exposes Rotten Predicament" by Greg Mellen, Long BeachPress-Telegram (Long Beach, CA)
Single Story: Daily Newspaper (circulation more than 100,000)
"First Things First" by Florence Graves and Heather Hadar Sayfan,Boston(Boston, MA) Sunday Globe
Single Story: Non-Daily Newspaper or Magazine (any circulation size)
"A Home, No Matter How Humble” by Colin Asher, The San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA)
Series of articles: Daily Newspaper (circulation less than 100,000)
"Sheltered in Shadows” by Michael Shea, The Modesto Bee (Modesto, CA)
Series of articles: Daily Newspaper (circulation more than 100,000)
“Behind the Meltdown" by Dale Kasler, Jim Wasserman, Phillip Reese and John Hill, The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, CA)
In addition, a collection of articles on the subprime mortgage crisis by the staff of The Wall Street Journal (New York, NY) will receive special recognition.
2006 Winners by Category:
Single Story: Daily Newspaper (circ. less than 100,000)
1ST PLACE: “High prices for dismal housing” by Greg Mellen, Press-Telegram, CA.
Single Story: Daily Newspaper (circ. above 100,001)
1st PLACE: “Priced out of paradise” by Jocelyn Wiener, Sacramento Bee, CA.
HONORABLE MENTION: “Houses affordable for everyone” by Michelle Derus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI.
Single Story: Non-Daily Newspaper or Magazine
1st PLACE: “Lost Among the Ruins” by Brendan Smith, Legal TimesWashington, DC.
HONORABLE MENTION: “A Tale of Two Center Cities” by Violet Law, PittsburghCity Paper, PA.
Series of articles: Daily Newspaper (circ. less than 100,000)
1st PLACE: “The Other Side of the Housing Boom” by Greg Kane, The Record Stockton, CA.
HONORABLE MENTION: Untitled series by Michael Daigle, The Daily RecordParsippany, NJ
Series of articles: Daily Newspaper (circ. above 100,001)
1st PLACE: “House of lies” by Debbie Cenziper, The Miami Herald, FL.
HONORABLE MENTION: “Lead’s dangerous legacy” by Sharon Coolidge, The Cincinnati Enquirer, OH.
HONORABLE MENTION: “Homeless on the Wai’anae Coast” by Will Hoover and Rob Perez, The Honolulu Advertiser, HI
Series of articles: Non-Daily Newspaper or Magazine
1st PLACE: “Throwaway Kids” by Joe Piasecki, Pasadena Weekly, CA.
HONORABLE MENTION: “Broken Promises” by William Selway, Martin Z. Braun and David Dietz, Bloomberg News, NY.
The deadline for the next year’s Cushing Niles Dolbeare Media Awards will be February 16, 2009. An official announcement with more details will be available on NLIHC’s website www.nlihc.org/CNDMA in the near future.
