Newspapers:
Newspaper of the Year—Newsday
For overall excellence in covering race and ethnicity and for developing a strategy to deal with the paper’s demographic challenge.
Gabriel Escobar, city editor, The Washington Post
For his stories on Latinos: “Dominicans in Black and White” and “The Other Pro Soccer.”
Angelo Henderson, reporter, The Wall Street Journal
For his Pulitzer Prize-winning stories on race: “Crime Scene” and “Color Code.”
Stephen Magagnini, reporter, The Sacramento Bee
For his series: “Getting Along,” and other stories on race and ethnicity.
Lonnae O’Neal Parker, reporter, The Washington Post
For her Style section story: “White Girl?”
The San Jose Mercury News
For special projects, “Majority of None” and “Diaspora,” and for the development of a race and demographics team.
Aaron McGruder, cartoonist
Creator of the multiracial comic strip “Boondocks,” distributed by Universal Press Syndicate.
Television:
Station of the Year—CBS News
For general excellence in coverage of race across a range of news programs. Alden Bourne, producer, “60 Minutes,”
CBS News
For “Vice Versa,” an unusual twist on affirmative action.
Paul Gallagher, producer, “60 Minutes,” CBS News
For “KIPP,” a report on education progress in minority neighborhoods in the Bronx and Houston.
Barbara Ciara, reporter-anchor, WVEC-TV, Norfolk, Virginia
For her report, “The N-Word.”
Emiko Omori, documentary filmmaker
For “Rabbit in the Moon,” a film about lingering tension over internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Lynn Redmond, producer, “ABC News 20/20”
For “Acting White,” an exploration of race and education.
WTVJ-TV, Miami, represented by Don Browne, president and general manager
For “Does Anyone Here Speak English?” and a portfolio of race and immigration stories.
Names and positions are given as they were in 2000 when selections were made.