Friday, June 10, 2005
Good News....
Must say I'm thrilled to have received the 2005 Casey Medal for meritorious reporting for an article I spent 8 months working on during journalism school. http://www.cjc.umd.edu/awards/2005_awards.html
From the award site:
NONDAILY NEWSPAPER
Winner: Lauren Gard, East Bay Express, Emeryville, Calif., "Good Kids, Bad Blood"
This story -- a detailed account of the travails of a 172-pound 10-year-old girl struggling with adult-onset diabetes -- personalizes the pressing issue of childhood obesity. One doctor quoted calls the epidemic of adult-onset diabetes in children "one of the big stories of the millennium," and Gard found a way, by delving deeply and with understanding into a child's life, family situation, diet and daily routine, to capture that sense of importance.
From the award site:
NONDAILY NEWSPAPER
Winner: Lauren Gard, East Bay Express, Emeryville, Calif., "Good Kids, Bad Blood"
This story -- a detailed account of the travails of a 172-pound 10-year-old girl struggling with adult-onset diabetes -- personalizes the pressing issue of childhood obesity. One doctor quoted calls the epidemic of adult-onset diabetes in children "one of the big stories of the millennium," and Gard found a way, by delving deeply and with understanding into a child's life, family situation, diet and daily routine, to capture that sense of importance.
// posted by newly @ 2:01 PM 
