2016 Media for a Just Society Award Winners
NCCD is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Media for a Just Society Awards. This year, more than 150 entries competed for recognition in the categories of book, film, print/online journalism (longform and shortform), radio, TV/video, and youth media. This year’s winners were chosen by our accomplished panel of judges, which includes eminent professionals from the fields of journalism, film, television, social justice, and philanthropy.
The winners are:
BOOK
Bastards of the Reagan Era
Four Way Books
Reginald Dwayne Betts
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BOOK
No House to Call My Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions
Nation Books
Ryan Berg
FILM
Paper Tigers
KPJR Films
James Redford
PRINT/ONLINE JOURNALISM—LONGFORM
”The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration”
The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates
PRINT/ONLINE JOURNALISM—SHORTFORM
“How Mass Incarceration Creates ‘Million Dollar Blocks’ in Poor Neighborhoods”
The Washington Post
Emily Badger
RADIO
“The Problem We All Live With”
This American Life
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Chana Joffe-Walt
TV/VIDEO
Shell Shocked
America ReFramed
World Channel
John Richie
YOUTH MEDIA
Unlocked: An Investigation Into Juvenile Incarceration and Its Alternatives
Youth Radio
Soraya Shockley
Brett Myers
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