The organizing body, the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, has recently announced the winners who will be recognized during the NLGJA 2010 LGBT Media Summit & National Convention, September 2-5 in San Francisco, California.
Journalist of the Year Award
Winner: Randy Gener, American Theatre magazine
Honorable mention: Carolyn Lochhead, San Francisco Chronicle
Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for Excellence in LGBT Media
Winner: Kerry Eleveld, The Advocate
Excellence in News Writing Award
Winner: Jen Colletta, Philadelphia Gay News, “Researchers: Gays Excluded from Clinical Trials”
Honorable mention: Phillip Zonkel, Press-Telegram, “Suffering in Silence”
Excellence in Feature Writing Award
Winner: Benoit Denizet-Lewis, The New York Times Magazine, “Coming Out in Middle School”
Honorable mention: Alfred P. Doblin, The Record, “Stonewall Started It”
Excellence in Opinion Writing Award
Winner: Maya Rupert, LA Watts Times, “I Believe in America”
Honorable mention: LZ Granderson, CNN, “Gay Is Not the New Black”
Excellence in Network Television Award
Winner: Bud Bultman, Rose Arce, Dave Timko, Amanda Sealy and Steve Keller, CNN, “Her Name Was Steven”
Honorable mention: Jacqueline Gares and Amber Hall, “In the Life,” “40th Anniversary of Stonewall”
Excellence in Radio Award
Winner: Jad Abumrad and Aaron Scott, Radiolab, “New Stu”
Honorable mention: Tim Curran, Aaron McQuade and Dave Gorab, Sirius XM OutQ News, “Stonewall 40 Minutes” series
Excellence in Online Journalism Award
Winner: Dave Singleton and Team, AARP.org, “The Stonewall Riots: 40 Years Later”
Honorable mention: Jessica Bennett, Kathy Jones, Margaret Keady, Jennifer Molina, Monica Parra and Carl Sullivan, Newsweek.com, “From Stonewall to Mainstream”
Excellence in Photojournalism Award
Winner: Scott A. Drake, Philadelphia Gay News, “PDA With a Purpose”
Excellence in HIV/AIDS Coverage Award
Winner: Michel Martin and the staff of “Tell Me More, Tell Me More,” NPR
Honorable mention: Jennifer Morton, POZ, “How Stigma Kills”
Excellence in Student Journalism Award
Winner: Todd Cross, Syracuse University multimedia graduate student, “Transgender: The Path to One’s Identity”
Honorable mention: Laura Lofgren, Fusion magazine, “The Importance of Being Aaron”
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