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The Washington Informer
Devanee.com
Hispanic Link
The Tri-State Defender

New America Media congratulates all the winners at the Second Ethnic Media Awards for Washington, D.C. — an event honoring outstanding reporting on news and features by ethnic media in and around the nation's capital.

Culled from more than 100 entries in nine languages, including Farsi, Korean, Amharic, Vietnamese, and Spanish, the winners were announced at an awards dinner, co-presented by the American University School of Communication, on February 15, at the University of California Washington Center in Washington D.C.

The winners are:

BEST LOCAL NEWS
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First Place (Tie): "Hardy Students Demand Principal's Return," Norma Porter Anthony, The Washington Informer
First Place (Tie): "Shedding Light on the Neglected Muslim Consumer Market," Minhaj Hasan, The Muslim Link
Runner Up: "Asian Americans Desperately Needed to Join 'Be The Match Marrow Registry'," Cathy Crenshaw Doheny, Asian Fortune

BEST IMMIGRATION COVERAGE
ALT First Place: "Immigration Status Not a Factor in Receiving WIC Benefits," Seng Lim Yu, The Korea Daily
Runner Up: "Mustafa Center Rises from Humble Beginnings," Sufia Alnoor and Rashad Mulla, The Muslim Link

BEST INVESTIGATIVE NEWS
First Place (Tie): "Separate But Not Equal: Israel's Arab Citizens," Dina Kraft, Moment Magazine
First Place (Tie): "The Strange Death of Rubén Salazar: Accident or Assassination?" Frank O. Sotomayor, Hispanic Link
Runner Up: "Community Health Centers," Paula Andalo, El Tiempo Latino

BEST ARTS, SPORTS, AND ENTERTAINMENT
ALT First Place: "Banned Practice - Music Censorship," Amina Elahi, Divanee.com
Runner Up: "The Curious Case of Walter Mosley," Johanna Neuman, Moment Magazine

BEST COMMENTARY
First Place: "Prioritizing Politics Over Unity Hurt the Community," Minhaj Hasan, The Muslim Link
Runner Up: "Fatty, Fatty, Two By Four," Jose de la Isla, Hispanic Link
BEST PHOTOJOURNALISM
ALT First Place: "Woman Struggling to Read," Carlos Andres Vargas, ML News, Metrolatinousa.com
ALT Runner Up: "Neda Pro-Democracy Demonstration," Ali Khaligh, Iranians Weekly

BEST FEATURE WRITING
ALT First Place (Tie): "Soledad O'Brien Talks Race with The Washington Informer," Shantella Sherman, The Washington Informer
Denise Barnes, "CNN's partnership with The Washington Informer on Black in America special"
First Place (Tie): "In the Lord's Time," Neil Rubin, Baltimore Jewish Times
Runner Up: "Hurdling Campaign Brickbats May Offer Bully Pulpit Against Racism," Rita Gerona Adkins, Asian Fortune

BEST BROADCAST
ALT First Place: "Mexican Immigrants Returning to their Homeland," Anne Wakefield Hoyt, Mexicanal
Runner Up: "Workers' Protection," Armando Guzman, Azteca America

BEST INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
ALT First Place: "Blogging Suicides: The Death of Foreign Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon," Dereje Desta, ZeEthiopia
Runner Up: "Local Students of Farhar Hashmi Defend Movement Against Accusations," Zunara Naeem, The Muslim Link

SPECIAL MENTION
nepalipost Special Mention for Community Coverage: Nepali Post
  Special Mention for 2010 Census Coverage: Pho Nho Newspaper
  Special Mention for Coverage on Aging: Pakistan Post

 

CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
ALT Hazel Trice Edney
Editor-in-Chief, Trice Edney News Wire
President & CEO, Trice Edney Communications, LLC
   

The awards seek to recognize the ethnic media's unique role in American journalism. Across the country, nearly one in four ethnic adults accesses the ethnic media on a daily basis.

The faculty from the American University School of Communication; representatives from Council on Foreign Relations; and immigrant advocacy groups in Washington judged the contest. The second Washington D.C. Ethnic Media Awards, co-organized by NAM and American University School of Communication, were funded in part by the McCormick Foundation and The Surdna Foundation.