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2008 Casey Medal. Awarded for exemplary reporting on the important issues of facing children and families. Stories must be published or aired in 2007. Application are due on March 3, 2008. Learn More.

Awards. The Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism honor distinguished coverage of disadvantaged children and families. First-place winners receive $1,000 and are honored at a luncheon in Washington, D.C. Runners-up and honorable mentions are recognized with certificates of merit. Categories include newspapers, magazines, television, radio, online and photojournalism. More than 2,000 journalists have applied for Casey Medals since 1994. Eligible work must be published or broadcast between January 1 and December 31, of the previous year. Awards are funded by the Annie E.Casey Foundation.

FIRST PERSON | 2005

Go behind the scenes with past Casey Medal winners.

Cornelia Grumman, Chicago Tribune
"Rocking the Cradle...Over" and other editorials

Grumman's thoughtful, deeply reported editorials on education, children and families stand out for their originality, strong voice and intelligence.
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Angie Moreschi, Bill Ditton and Gerry Lanosga, WTHR-TV
"Cries for Help"

The reporting team took on the state's child protection services agency and never let go -- shining a light on a failed system and forcing high-level officials to pay attention and make changes.

Nadya Labi, Legal Affairs magazine
"Want Your Kid to Disappear?"

Labi gained extraordinary access to the secretive, often seamy and entirely chilling world of "transporters" who forcibly abduct troublesome children to "tough-love" schools for behavior modification.
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the Journalism Center is funded by The Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Freddie Mac Foundation and individual donors.





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