Let’s Do It Better: 2000 Honorees

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.