1997

Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's comprehensive look at Wisconsin's welfare-to-work program and The New Yorker's clear-eyed portrait of a family struggling to survive just above the poverty line are among the winners of the 1997 Casey Medal Awards for Meritorious Journalism. The medals are presented by the Journalism Center on Children & Families and funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.   

1997 casey medals Winners

Project or Series: Over 200,000 circulation(all honorees)
Winner: "Work, or Else," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By Joel Dresang, Crocker Stephenson and Jim Stingl
Project or Series: Under 200,000 circulation(all honorees)
Winner: "Innocents Lost," The Bakersfield Californian
By Lisa Friedman, Denise Zapata, Chris Harrison, Leonel Martinez, Bob Christie, Javier Erik Olvera and Ed Homich
Winner: "Costliest Classrooms," Ventura County Star
By Maureen Magee
Winner: "Success Story?" The Times (San Mateo, Calif.)
By Dan Seaver and Karen de Sa
Opinion(all honorees)
Winner: "Reworking Welfare/Minnesota's Challenge," Minneapolis Star Tribune
By David Hage
Magazine(all honorees)
Winner: "Kid, Twelve," The New Yorker
By Susan Sheehan
Nondaily(all honorees)
Winner: "Family Affairs," Phoenix New Times
By Michael Lacey
Photojournalism(all honorees)
Winner: "With Unending Grace," (Minneapolis) Star Tribune
By Brian Peterson
Video: Short form(all honorees)
Winner: "Room 104: The Overcrowding Crisis," WABC-TV-New York,
By Celeste Ford; Editor: Robert Caccamise

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.