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Black Journalists Honor Herald, Others: The Miami Herald Won Standout Honors This Week From the South Florida Black Journalists Association

Posted on: Friday, 16 June 2006, 06:00 CDT

By Stephanie Garry, The Miami Herald

Jun. 16--The South Florida Black Journalists Association bestowed honors on five news organizations last weekend, and The Miami Herald topped the list with six awards of excellence.

The awards aim to recognize and encourage coverage of South Florida's black community. The 11 winning entries were selected out of 35 submissions.

The Miami Herald won for coverage of the Arthur Teele suicide last summer, Haitian traditions and the legacy of the Liberty City riots, among other topics.

The Miami New Times was honored for coverage of escalating real estate prices in Overtown and a profile of a homeless man.

Three TV stations, Miami Herald news partner WFOR-CBS4, WTVJ-NBC6 and WSVN-Fox 7, each earned an accolade.

The association presented its awards at its annual luncheon Sunday in Sunny Isles Beach.

The winners were:

-- Photography/Breaking News: Roman Lyskowski, The Miami Herald, for the Art Teele suicide.

-- Photography/Feature: Charles Trainor Jr., The Miami Herald, for his portrait of Antoine Allen, a Northwestern High football player.

-- Television/Feature: Quiana Burns, Julia Yarbough, Frank Adelson, Shawn Federline, WTVJ- NBC6, for South Florida's Living Legacy, a retrospective of the region.

-- Television Profile: Sharron Melton, WSVN-Fox 7, for her story on principal Thelma Stinson as she battled cancer.

-- Television Enterprise: Jennifer Santiago, WFOR-CBS4, for Return to Haiti, the story of two women trying to stay in Florida.

-- Newspaper/Breaking News: Staff, The Miami Herald, A Tragic End for Teele.

-- Newspaper/Business: Harriet Johnson Brackey, The Miami Herald, for The Common Esos, a Haitian tradition of nonstandard ways to save money.

-- Newspaper/Community Impact: Staff, The Miami Herald, for Liberty City 25 Years Later, a piece on the Arthur McDuffie riots and their legacy.

-- Newspaper/Enterprise: Rebecca Wakefield, Miami New Times, for In The Shadow of New Towers, about Overtown's struggle with rising property values.

-- Newspaper/Features: Nancy Ancrum, The Miami Herald, for The Cultural Kitchen, a column about the culinary legacy of African descendants in South Florida.

-- Newspaper/Profile: Francisco Alvarado, Miami New Times, for Santa: A Man on the Street, a profile of a homeless man.

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Source: The Miami Herald

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