Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Each year, the Dart Society — a cohort of Ochberg Fellows and winners of the Dart and Mimi Awards — honors an editor who advances compassionate and ethical coverage of trauma, conflict and social injustice. This year that honor goes to Jan Winburn for her decades of work at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Baltimore Sun and other publications.

That work includes the Dart Award-winning "Joseph Palczinski Story" and the Asian American Journalists Association award-winning "Chaplain Turner's War," written by 2008 Ochberg Fellow Moni Basu.

Winburn's nominators — Basu, “This American Life” producer Lisa Pollak, and writers Michelle Hiskey and Mike Ollove — described what Winburn had taught them:

“We learned from Jan about the indelible link between reporting and writing: that successful narratives are not just the stuff of pretty writing (as some editors believe). Instead the power lies in intensive yet delicate reporting that yields intimate anecdotes and details that allow Jan’s reporters to write with authority from another person’s view.”

You can read the official announcement on the Dart Society website.