Medal Winners: First Person
Casey Medal Winner Beth Macy: "Another Sad Parting"
Beth Macy, families' beat reporter for the Roanoke (Va.) Times, followed the caregiving journey of dementia patient Tommy Rhodes and his wife Linda for nearly two years. Macy and a team from the Times won a 2009 Casey Medal in the multimedia category for "Age of Uncertainty," their project about Roanoke's aging population. Tommy Rhodes died Dec. 25, and Macy wrote his obituary. Here, she reflects on the couple and on reader reaction to the project.
2009 Casey Medal Winner, Magazine: “Growing Up Bipolar” (Q&A)
Newsweek’s Mary Carmichael talks about her profile of a 10-year-old boy with bipolar disorder. Her story won a 2009 Casey Medal in the Magazine category.
2009 Casey Medal Winner, "A Girl's Life" (video)
Keith O'Brien and Donovan Slack of The Boston Globe talk about their story on the shortcomings of their state’s child welfare system. The piece won a 2009 Casey Medal in the Single Story, 200,000-plus circulation category.
2009 Casey Medal Winner/2009 America's Promise Journalism Award Winner, Radio: "Growing Up in the System" (video)
Courtney Stein, Shirley "Star" Diaz and Raymond Hendeson of WNYC's Radio Rookies talk about their team's project on the foster care system and the challenges facing the children within. The project won a 2009 Casey Medal in the radio category, as well as the first-ever America's Promise Award for Awareness.
2009 Casey Medal Winner, Nondaily: "Long Highland" (video)
Long Island Press reporters Michael M. Martino Jr. and Timothy Bolger talk about their project on a growing heroin epidemic among young people. The series exposed wrongdoing and deception by school administrators, who stonewalled the reporters and put their schools’ reputations above student health. The team won a 2009 Casey Medal in the nondaily category.
2009 Casey Medal Winner/2009 America's Promise Journalism Award Winner, Project/Series: "The Smokestack Effect: Toxic air and America’s schools" (video)
USA Today reporters Brad Heath and Blake Morrison talk about their eight-month investigation of the impact of industrial pollution on the air outside schools and its toxic effect on children. They won a 2009 Casey Medal in the category, "project or series, 200,000 plus circulation."
2009 Winner, Multimedia: "Age of Uncertainty"
Casey Medal judges called the project a brilliantly structured presentation on the challenges facing a region and its aging population.
2008 Winner, Radio: "Wanted: Parents"
The American RadioWorks team won a 2008 Casey Medal for a story about an unusual alternative for teens aging out of foster care.
2007 Runner-Up, Multimedia: "Oakland: A Plague of Killing"
The Chronicle's informative, poignant project tracks and uncovers many of the reasons behind Oakland’s escalating homicide rate.
2007 Winner, Photojournalism: "A Mother's Journey"
A window into the emotional, physical and financial toll that cancer takes on young victims and their loved ones.
