Crusading Against Silence: High-Impact Reporting on Invisible Victims
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The 2011 Dart Awards were given to searing investigations which exposed how important institutions—schools, universities and the military—betray the very people they are supposed to protect: victims of teenage bullying and campus rape, brain-injured soldiers and families left behind by war. Please join us in celebrating the winners and engaging in a conversation on journalism that is both hard-hitting and humane.
The 2011 Dart Award winners are:
- The Boston Globe for "A Tormenting Problem: An Exploration of New-Age Bullying"
- The Dallas Morning News for "Private Battles"
- NPR and the Center for Public Integrity for "Seeking Justice in Campus Rapes"
- NPR and ProPublica for "Brain Wars: How the Military is Failing its Wounded."
Established in 1995, the annual Dart Awards recognize exemplary journalism on the impact of violence, crime, disaster and other traumatic events on individuals, families and communities. The Dart Awards are administered by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia.
Read past Dart Award winners.
See a slideshow of Dart Award-winning photography.
Speakers
Kevin Cullen
Kevin Cullen is a metro columnist at The Boston Globe. He has been a reporter at The Globe since 1985, working as a law enforcement reporter, legal affairs correspondent, reporter-at-large and foreign correspondent.
Sonya N. Hebert
Sonya N. Hebert is a staff photographer at The Dallas Morning News. Prior to joining The Dallas Morning News in 2007, Sonya interned at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va. and attended the Ohio University School of Visual Communication.
Kristen Lombardi
Staff Writer, Center for Public Integrity
Kristen Lombardi is an award-winning journalist who has worked for the Center for Public Integrity since 2007. Previously she was a reporter at the Village Voice and at the Boston Phoenx, where she provided ground-breaking coverage of the Boston clergy-abuse scandal.
T. Christian Miller
Senior Reporter, ProPublica
T. Christian Miller is a senior reporter at ProPublica, based in Washington D.C. Before he joined ProPublica in 2008, he spent the previous 11 years reporting for the Los Angeles Times.
Daniel Zwerdling
Daniel Zwerdling is a correspondent in NPR's Investigations Unit. His acclaimed investigative and documentary reports appear on all of NPR's major news shows.