Announcing the 2015 Media for a Just Society Awards Finalists
June 8, 2015 | by National Council on Crime and Delinquency
NCCD is proud to announce this year’s finalists for its annual Media for a Just Society Awards. These awards are the only national recognition of media whose work furthers public understanding of social justice issues. Finalists were chosen from more than 150 nominations and submissions in seven categories.
NCCD is proud to announce this year’s finalists for its annual Media for a Just Society Awards. These awards are the only national recognition of media whose work furthers public understanding of social justice issues. Finalists were chosen from more than 150 nominations and submissions in seven categories.
Book
Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison
The New Press
Nell Bernstein
Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America
The New Press
Jonathan Simon
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
The University of Chicago Press
Alice Goffman
Film
F R E E
Studio B Films
Suzanne LaFetra
David Collier
Imperial Dreams
Super Crispy Entertainment
Malik Vitthal
15 to Life: Kenneth’s Story
PBS: Point of View
Nadine Pequeneza
Print/Online Journalism – Longform
“A Mother Who Just Wanted to Know When Her Son Would Eat”
Waging Nonviolence
Victoria Law
“Innocents Lost”
Miami Herald
Carol Marbin Miller
Audra D.S. Burch
“The Case For Reparations”
The Nation
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Print/Online Journalism – Shortform
“Child Welfare Agency Shows Signs of Panic”
The Boston Globe
Yvonne Abraham
“Miami Gardens Police Records Reveal Broad Policy of Stopping and Questioning Citizens”
Fusion
Alice Brennan
Dan Lieberman
“The Archipelago of Pain”
The New York Times
David Brooks
Radio
“Is This Working?”
This American Life (WBEZ Chicago)
“Guilty and Charged”
All Things Considered – NPR
Joseph Shapiro
“Rationalizing the Deaths of Unarmed Black Men: From Ferguson to Boston”
WGBH Radio
Philip Martin
“Serial”
WBEZ Chicago
Sarah Koenig
TV/ Video
“Dostoevsky Behind Bars”
Refuge Films
Marc Kornblatt
“Last Chance High”
Episodes 1-3
VICE News
“Solitary Nation”
Frontline PBS
Dan Edge
Youth Media
“Double Charged”
Youth Radio
Myles Bess
Sayre Quevedo
“In Oakland, The Disconnect Between Young People and the Police”
Youth Radio, NPR
Joi Smith
“My Looking-Glass Self”
Represent Magazine, Youth Communication
Anonymous