From their press release on May 3rd:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - May 3, 2019 – Today, in celebration of World Press Freedom Day, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
has announced the winners of its 2019 Robert F. Kennedy Book &
Journalism Awards. The author of the winning book selection and first
place winners in 13 categories - including high school and college print
and broadcast, international and domestic print and photography, new
media, cartoon and more - will all be honored at a ceremony on Thursday,
May 23 at 6:30 pm at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Historian, author
and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ Book Award Chair Michael Beschloss will serve as master of ceremonies joining the organization’s President Kerry Kennedy and Journalism Award Chair, playwright and author Margaret Engel in presenting the awards. The full list of winners for each category is included below.
Professional
and student journalist winners of the 2019 Journalism Awards chronicled
topics including firsthand accounts of asylum seekers as part of a
migrant caravan, the horrors of human trafficking, sex abuse, and gang
life, the war in Yemen, and much more. Their fearless exploration of
controversial topics comes at a time of continued attacks on the press
by the current administration in the US and abroad. The 2019 Book Award
will be awarded to author Shane Bauer for his book American Prison: A
Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Penguin
Press) exploring the horrors of for-profit prisons, which he witnessed
as an undercover corrections officer.
....
2019 Journalism Award winners were selected from a pool of over 300
applicants in thirteen categories which are reviewed by professionals
from across the media landscape. The Book Award was chosen from a field
of nearly 100 applicants. Judges for the award included historian and
author Ted Widmer; Georgetown University Law Professor and author, Peter Edelman; and Harvard University Law Professor, Annette Gordon Reed.
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