Our fearless leader Karen Hawkins was honored with Public Narrative’s Studs Terkel Award—meanwhile the entire team earned bragging rights at the Local Media Association and Peter Lisagor Awards.
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Award-winning work!
Reader wins five awards from the Chicago Headline Club
The paper won Peter Lisagor Awards for in-depth, feature, and education reporting, photography, and arts criticism Friday night.
Read the great Reader stories nominated for journalism awards Thursday
An examination of police in schools, an investigation of contract selling and a photo of a public housing project poisoned by lead are among the nominees.
Former Sun-Times publisher returns to Chicago—to represent Canada
John Cruickshank now serves as Canada’s consul general here.
The Anne Keegan Award honors a kind of journalism we need more of
The award recognizes “stories of ordinary people” that “give voice to the voiceless” and reflect the “dignity and spirit of the common man.”
The Lisagors need rethinking
The Chicago Headline Club’s local journalism awards are run by obsolete guidelines.
Did you write last year about the common man? If so, consider the Anne Keegan Award.
The prize is given annually for journalism “reflecting the dignity and spirit of the common man.”
Carol Marin leaves Sun-Times for DePaul
The longtime columnist and producer Don Moseley plan to launch a new center for integrity in journalism.
Spotlight and the end of journalism’s good old days
The new film spotlights a newspaper era on its way out.
Ethics is rewarded indirectly at the Lisagors
Lisagors drop ethics award but not ethics.
The Anne Keegan Award honors writers who give a voice to the voiceless
Anne Keegan Award returns for a fourth year—and the judges are accepting submissions.
The Lisagor Awards make a thrilling comeback
This year’s Lisagors received more entries than anticipated.
The Keegan Award is casting a wider net
The judges behind the local award for giving “voice to the voiceless” will accept online journalism.
Where are the Lisagor entries?
Entries are way down for this year’s Lisagor Awards. Should we worry?