Dart Award Winner

  • Dart Award Winner

    Apr 15 2010

    For Their Own Good

    Photo: Edmund D. Fountain / St. Petersburg Times: Thirty-one graves, some u ...

    By Ben Montgomery, Waveney Ann Moore, Edmund D. Fountain, and Kelley Benham

    This six-part series reveals a century of abuse at Florida's oldest reform school in a haunting narrative. Originally published by the St. Petersburg Times between April and December, 2009, it is a winner of the 2010 Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma.

  • Dart Award Winner

    Apr 15 2010

    The Deadly Choices at Memorial

    Photo: Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum / The New York Times: Four years after Katr ...

    By Sheri Fink, Paolo Pellegrin, Stephen Engelberg, Susan White, Ilena Silverman, Aaron Retica, David Ferguson, Charles Wilson, and Krista Kjellman Schmidt

    This gripping narrative, which exposes the decision-making that left 18 patients dead after injections of painkillers and sedatives in a flooded hospital in New Orleans, is a winner of the 2010 Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma. It was originally published by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine in August, 2009. 


  • Dart Award Winner

    Apr 17 2009

    Crossing the Line: Abuse in Hawai’i Homes

    Photo: Jeff Widener: Deann Dano, 14, looks on in Circuit Court during the s ...

    By Kevin Dayton, Rob Perez, Jeff Widener, and Russell McCrory

    This exceptional seven-part investigative series tells the stories of native Hawai’ian women whose lives were forever changed by domestic violence. Originally published in The Honolulu Advertiser in December, 2008.

  • Dart Award Winner

    Apr 16 2009

    Daysha's Diary

    Photo: Jeff Widener: Donna Weber cradles the ashes of her 21-year-old daugh ...

    By Kevin Dayton and Jeff Widener

    The intimate diary of Daysha Aiona-Aka, a 21-year old mother who was murdered at the hands of her estranged boyfriend, offers a rare glimpse of the dynamics of unfolding domestic abuse. Originally published in The Honolulu Advertiser in December, 2008 as part of Crossing the Line: Abuse in Hawai'i Homes.

  • Dart Award Winner

    Apr 15 2009

    Rape as a Weapon of War

    By Jeb Sharp and Jennifer Goren

    This five-part investigative series examines the brutality of sexual violence in conflict zones and the medical, humanitarian, legal, and political response to it. Originally aired on Public Radio International's "The World"  between January and June, 2008.

  • Dart Award Winner

    Apr 15 2009

    Beyond Rape: A Survivor's Story

    By Joanna Connors and Lisa DeJong

    A bold, groundbreaking, piece of journalism in which Joanna Connors turns her reportorial skills on her own sexual assault. Originally published in The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in May, 2008.

  • Dart Award Winner

    Johanna: Facing Forward

    As she sleeps in her hospital bed in spring, 2007, Johanna Orozco tosses and moans. The dist ...

    By Rachel Dissell and Gus Chan

    This nine-part series tells the story of a teenage relationship turning to obsession and abuse, and a strong young woman recovering from a horrific act of violence. Originally published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer in September, 2007.

  • Dart Award Winner

    Sexual Abuse of Native American Women

    Ron His Horse Is Thunder, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, says that as long as th ...

    By Laura Sullivan, Amy Walters, and Maria Godoy

    One in three Native American women will be raped in her lifetime. This two-part series tells the story behind this shocking statistic — a story of both human tragedy and  systematic failure of criminal justice on and off of reservations.  This series led to the reopening of a sexual assault case, Congressional hearings, and the launching of a website to manage donations to help sexual assault victims living in the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. Originally aired on NPR on July 25 and 26, 2007.

  • Dart Award Winner

    Yolanda's Crossing

    Jacinta Aguilar Borques bathes in the river in La Barra del Potrero, Mexico. At the same riv ...

    By Stella Chavez, Paul Meyer, and Lara Solt

    In rural Mexico , Yolanda Méndez Torres lived in a society where sexual violence against girls often goes unreported and unpunished. In America , she joined legions of undocumented abuse victims who have little hope of finding justice. This narrative series chronicles Yolanda's crossing between the two worlds. Originally published in The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX), in Dec., 2006.

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    Mentally Unfit, Forced to Fight

    (MARK MIRKO / March 17, 2006): TRISHA FISH , who had a son with Army Spec. ...

    By Lisa Chedekel and Matthew Kaufman

    The U.S. military is sending troops with serious psychological problems into Iraq and is keeping soldiers in combat even after superiors have been alerted to suicide warnings and other signs of mental illness, a Courant investigation has found. Originally published in the Hartford Courant, May 2006.

  • Dart Award Winner

    Hiroshima's Survivors

    By Patrick Cox and Jennifer Goren

    A 4-part series introducing listeners to living survivors of the atomic bomb blast.  Originally aired on PRI's The World in 2006.

  • Dart Award Winner

    Return to Sarajevo

    By Allan Little, Peter Burdin, and Philippa Goodrich

    "Return to Sarajevo" was produced by the BBC and syndicated on US stations. The winning team includes correspondent Allan Little and producers Peter Burdin and Philippa Goodrich.

  • Dart Award Winner

    The Days After

    By Jason Brown, Arnessa Garrett, Claudia Laws, Brittain Quibodeaux Orgeron, and Marsha Sills

    A series about the murder of eight women in Louisiana's Acadiana. Originally published in the Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, LA), on Aug. 7, 2005.

  • Dart Award Winner

    Homicide in Detroit

    By Jeff Seidel and Eric Seals

    A six-part series that takes a deep look at the impact of homicide on family, police, bystanders and the city itself. Originally published in the Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI), in 2004.

  • Dart Award Winner

    Rape in a Small Town

    By Kate Bramson, Bob Thayer, and Mimi Burkhardt

    The story of a 15-year-old girl raped by a popular classmate and of the devastating aftermath for her, her family, and her town. Originally published in the Providence Journal (Providence, RI), in 2003.

  • Dart Award Winner

    Legacy of Love and Pain

    By Daniel Vargas and Andrew Innerarity

    The story of Angela Hudson, who barely survived after her estranged husband set her on fire, and of the effects of the attack on her family. Originally published in the Houston Chronicle (Houston, TX), in 2002.

  • Dart Award Winner

    The Short Life of Viktor Matthey

    By Matthew Reilly and Saed Hindash

    An article depicting the unhappy life of a Siberian boy whose violent death is told against the larger story of his birth parents, the orphanage that briefly shelters him, and his abusive adoptive parents in America. Originally published in the Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), on October 28, 2001.

  • Dart Award Winner

    The Joseph Palczynski Story

    By Linell Smith, Marego Athans, Ann LoLordo, Patricia Meisol, Doug Kapustin, and Joannah Hill

    A two-part series from The Baltimore Sun on the lives of six women serially victimized by one man's extremes of physical and psychological abuse.

  • Dart Award Winner

    A Long Ride on the Thunderbolt

    By William Birnbauer

    This is the story of the confrontation between a man and a psychiatric doctor who treated him with unmodified electro-convulsive therapy as an adolescent, and the other forms of abuse he suffered. Originally published in The Age (Melbourne, Australia), on March 13, 1999.

  • Dart Award Winner

    Who Killed John McCloskey?

    By Michael Hemphill and Stephanie Klein-Davis

    A compelling series on the suspicious death of an 18-year-old man arrested and placed in the care of a mental institution, the cover-up that followed, and the family's on-going grief and confusion.  Originally published in The Roanoke Times in June, 1999.

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