1996

Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism

1996 casey medals Winners

Project or Series: Over 200,000 circulation(all honorees)
Winner: "Teen Parenthood: An Awesome Responsibility" The Orange County (Calif.) Register
By Bonnie Weston and Mindy Schauer
Project or Series: Under 200,000 circulation(all honorees)
Winner: "Welfare: Facing the Future" The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Ind.)
By Ruth Hammond
Winner: "Generation Rx," The Morning Journal (Lorain, Ohio)
By John Campanelli, Gregory Korte and Ken Stammen; Editors: Richard Hendrickson, Richard Osborne, Carol Zientarski and John Starks
Nondaily(all honorees)
Winner: "Lead Poisoning," The Chicago Reporter
By Natalie Pardo
Audio(all honorees)
Winner: "The Lives of the Children" 89.3 WCAL (Northfield, Minn.),
By Claudia Hampston Daly
Video: Long form(all honorees)
Winner: "From Welfare to Work," WFAA-TV (Dallas, Texas)
By Pam Curry

about this award

The Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism recognize exemplary reporting on children and families in the U.S. More than 4,500 journalists have competed for Casey Medals since 1994.