CHICAGO, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The good news about the news in
Chicago is: the best journalists continue to raise up voices of ordinary
people and tell stories about the city's neighborhoods, the kind that
engage a range of audiences.
Cases in point: Tom McNamee of Chicago Sun-Times, the staff of "Latino
Public Radio" Radio Arte 90.5 FM, and Dawn Turner Trice of Chicago Tribune.
Community Media Workshop will honor all three at its annual Studs Terkel
Community Media Awards benefit, set for 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, April 9 in
the Chicago Cultural Center GAR Hall, 77 W. Randolph St. Contribution and
ticket information is available at the organization's Web site,
http://www.newstips.org or from Maggie Walker at 312-344-6400.
"These awards affirm the Chicago tradition of journalists using their
power to bring communities together," says Thom Clark, president of
Community Media Workshop, which since 1994 has helped select awardees in
consultation with Studs Terkel, the 95-year-old author most recently of a
memoir, Touch and Go.
Trice, who speaks out on health issues in the African-American
community, and McNamee, a Southwest Sider who seeks to put stories of
people who might otherwise never show up in the paper, represent the
continuing Chicago tradition of columnists who write about ordinary life.
(McNamee's "Chicago Way" column is on hiatus since he was recently promoted
to editorial page editor.)
An encouraging sign for the viability of news, Clark adds, is that
ethnic outlets such as Radio Arte find their audiences valuing news-and
that the young people who are the core of their journalism team come in
excited about doing news.
Terkel Awards highlight reporters who take risks in covering social
issues, offering new or unusual perspectives on topics of general concern
from housing to neighborhood safety and beyond. The awards honor
journalists for going the extra mile in sourcing stories and thoughtful
treatment of context. The awards reward a body of work rather than a single
article or series, and go to journalists at any stage of their career.
Founded in 1989, Community Media Workshop is a Midwestern leader in
bringing new-media tools to nonprofits and reaches some 2,000 nonprofit
communicators who tell their organizations' stories each year. More
information at http://www.newstips.org or at its blog site,
http://www.npcommunicator.org.
SOURCE Community Media Workshop
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Related links:
http://www.newstips.org
http://www.npcommunicator.org
CONTACT:
Thom Clark, +1-312-344-6401, or Gordon Mayer,
+1-312-344-7722, Cell, +1-312-307-0133, both for Community Media
Workshop
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