Photos by Isseu Diouf Campbell
The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism honored members of the community and ethnic media in New York City during its 15th Annual Ippies Journalism Awards held on May 18, at the school located on 40th Street in Manhattan.
Councilmember Carlos Menchaca, chair of the Committee on Immigration, was the keynote speaker of the award ceremony emceed by journalist and educator Randall Pinkston.
Jehangir Khattak, Co-Director of the Center for Community and Ethnic media presented winners with their awards.
The 2017 Ippies winners are:
BEST INVESTIGATIVE/IN-DEPTH STORY
First Place
• Entry Title: Troubling Allegations Follow Bay Ridge’s New Top Cop
• Recipient: Rachel Silberstein
• Publication: BKLYNER
Second Place
• Entry Title: Noise in Norwood and Beyond
• Recipient: David Cruz
• Publication: Norwood News
Third Place
• Entry Title: Paul Newman’s Lost Masterpiece and How We Rediscovered It
• Recipient: Allan M. Jalon
• Publication: Forward
BEST STORY ABOUT A COMMUNITY
First Place
• Entry Title: Russian-Speaking Gays and Lesbians Get a Fresh Start in New York (English translation)
• Recipient: Denis Cheredov
• Publication: ForumDaily Inc.
Second Place
• Entry Title: To Save a Piece of Poland in the Hudson Valley (English translation)
• Recipient: Aleksandra Slabisz
• Publication: Nowy Dziennik
Third Place
• Entry Title: Sister Ping’s Alumni
• Recipient: Rong Xiaoqing
• Publication: Sing Tao Daily
BEST SOCIAL ISSUES STORY
First Place
• Entry Title: Elementary School Principal Removed Following Outcry Over Father’s Arrest
• Recipient: Alex Ellefson
• Publication: BKLYNER
Second Place
• Entry Title: Do NYC’s Middle-Class Families Really Need Affordable Housing?
• Recipient: Abigail Savitch-Lew
• Publication: City Limits
Third Place
• Entry Title: Can The East 16th Street Zombie Lot Rise From The Dead?
• Recipient: Carly Miller
• Publication: BKLYNER
BEST SMALL CIRCULATION PUBLICATION
First Place
• Recipient: George Fiala
• Publication: Red Hook Star-Revue
Second Place
• Recipient: David Cruz
• Publication: Norwood News
Third Place
• Recipient: Edward Nowakowski
• Publication: Nowy Dziennik
BEST EDITORIAL/COMMENTARY
First Place
• Entry Title: Why Jews Need To Recognize the Armenian Genocide Once and for All
• Recipient: Jordan Kutzik
• Publication: Yiddish Forward
Second Place
• Entry Title: Political Expedience and The Liang Trial
• Recipient: Stephen Witt
• Publication: Kings County Politics
Third Place
• Entry Title: Hate in the Time of Trump
• Recipient: Elinor Tatum
• Publication: New York Amsterdam News
BEST OVERALL DESIGN OF A PRINT PUBLICATION
First Place
• Entry Title: Issue No. 1114F (December 31, 2016)
• Recipient: Minyu Liu, Li Li
• Publication: Epoch Times
Second Place
• Entry Title: September 9, 2016
• Recipient: Elaine Tin Nyo, Anya Ulinich, Kurt Hoffman
• Publication: Forward
Third Place
• Entry Title: October 1, 2016
• Recipient: Onur Aydemir
• Publication: Forum USA
BEST OVERALL DESIGN OF AN ONLINE PUBLICATION
First Place
• Recipient: Victoria Butenko
• Publication: ForumDaily Inc.
Second Place
• Recipient: Liena Zagare
• Publication: BKLYNER
Third Place
• Recipient: Michael Conforti, Christopher Twarowski
• Publication: Long Island Press
BEST PHOTOGRAPH
First Place
• Entry Title: Showing Off School Pride at St. Ann’s (second photo)
• Recipient: Adi Talwar
• Publication: Norwood News
Second Place
• Entry Title: Chinatown Tenants Fight Against Eviction
• Recipient: Ke (April) Xu
• Publication: Sing Tao Daily
Third Place
• Entry Title: Justice for Peter Liang
• Recipient: Chenghui Hsu
• Publication: World Journal
BEST VIDEO
First Place
• Entry Title: Seeing Myself
• Recipient: Raquel Salazar
• Publication: BRIC TV
Second Place
• Entry Title: The Freedom Riders 1961, Paintings by Charlotte Janssen
• Recipient: Justin Bryant
• Publication: BRIC TV
Third Place
• Entry Title: Justice for Peter Liang
• Recipient: Chenghui Hsu
• Publication: World Journal
BEST MULTIMEDIA PACKAGE
First Place
• Entry Title: Cleaner Creeks and Bays, But How Will New Yorkers Access the Waters They Own?
• Recipient: Adi Talwar, Guglielmo Mattioli
• Publication: City Limits
Second Place
• Entry Title: No Jail Time for Peter Liang, What About the Donations?
• Recipient: Danqi Wu, Yiyi Wang
• Publication: Sinovision Inc.
Third Place
• Entry Title: Between Fear and Hope – Young Immigrants in Post-Election America
• Recipient: John Rudolph, Rachael Bongiorno
• Publication: Feet in 2 Worlds
VOICES OF NY AWARD
• Recipient: Rong Xiaoqing of Sing Tao Daily
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