Driving change: Transportation safety journalists encouraged to apply to 2023 Casey Feldman Award
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Applications are now being accepted for the 2023 Casey Feldman Award for Transportation Safety Reporting.
This is the second year for the award, which recognizes outstanding work in the area of transportation safety 新闻. 该奖项授予凯西·费尔德曼, a senior 新闻 student at Fordham University who was killed by a distracted driver in 2009. 它是由 凯西·费尔德曼基金会 and the 新闻 department at the College of Media, Communication and Information at the 博彩平台推荐. 凯西·费尔德曼的父母, 乔尔·费尔德曼和黛安·安德森, created the foundation to provide scholarships for students and to support work that will help put an end to distracted driving.
The Casey Feldman Award recognizes exceptional work produced between July 1, 2022, 及六月三十日, 2023, by a reporter or reporting team in print and/or online platforms in the United States. Entries should take the form of a story or series about one topic or event related to transportation safety. The winner receives a $2,000 prize; two honorable mentions of $500 each also will be awarded. The publication time frame has changed this year, so entrants are eligible to resubmit nonwinning entries from the 2022 contest for consideration.
2022年的奖项 went to Jesse Coburn and Streetsblog NYC for “Always Scared: Dangerous Streets Outside City Schools Threaten Children,” a story that looked at unsafe streets and mapped crashes that occurred near schools. Honorable mentions in the 2022 contest were awarded to Marin Cogan and Vox for “美国最致命的道路” and to Mike Lindblom of the Seattle Times for “Seattle’s Most Dangerous Light-Rail Stretch — And How to Make it Safer.”
Joel Feldman said it’s that kind of 新闻 that he and Dianne Anderson want to encourage through this award.
“My daughter Casey had a passion for 新闻. At the time of her death she was news editor of her college newspaper,” he said. 表达他们的哀悼, many of her colleagues told us that Casey taught them that reporters have the power to change the world for the better by telling great stories.
“Recognizing the power of the press to amplify what all of us who are involved in transportation safety do, my wife and I created an award for transportation reporters in Casey’s memory,费尔德曼说. “By doing so we wanted to encourage and reward reporters who tell great stories that are helping to keep us safer on our roads.”
申请人可以 submit their work through the Casey Feldman Award page on the CMCI website until 11:59 p.m. 9月. 1. Entries should include PDF files of, 或者链接到, 有关的故事, along with a letter of nomination from the entrant and/or their sponsoring publication. The entry fee is $50 per submission. 请将问题发送至 jrnldepartment@highland-co.com.
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The 凯西·费尔德曼基金会 is a 501(c)(3) public charity that was founded by 乔尔·费尔德曼和黛安·安德森 after Casey’s death. Its purpose is to make the world a better place and roads safer for everyone. In honor of Casey Feldman’s commitment to service, the foundation provides scholarships, animal welfare and service programs, research-based safe driving presentations, 和更多的.
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传媒学院, Communication and Information opened in fall 2015 as the first new college on the 博彩平台推荐 campus in 53 years. CMCI was created to match the times we live in—times of revolutionary change in the way people communicate, the tools they use to do it and the impact that change has on society. CMCI offers seven areas of academic specialty: Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design; Communication; Critical Media Practices; Information Science; Intermedia Art, Media Production; Journalism; and Media Studies.