Let's Do It Better! Announces Winners for 2008

The Tenth Annual
Workshop on Journalism, Race and Ethnicity
will be held on May 1- May 3, 2008

Let's Do it Better! Announces the 2008 Award Winners

2008 Paul Tobenkin Award Winner Michael Riley The Denver Post For writing courageously about racial discrimination in “Lawless Lands,” a series that investigates how a dysfunctional federal justice system allows serious American Indian reservation crimes to go unpunished.

2008 Lifetime Achievement Award Winners
Mae Cheng AMNew York	Jeff Fager CBS News/60 Minutes	Sig Gissler Founding Dir., Let's Do It Better! Administrator, Pulitzer Prizes
Earl G. Graves, Sr. Black Enterprise	Bob Herbert The New York Times	Ray Suarez NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Walterene “Walt” Swanston National Public Radio

2008 Best Practice Award Winners

Broadcast Winners

CBS News 60 Minutes - “The Justice Nobody Knows”
CBS News 60 Minutes - “Reconstructing the Family Tree”
CNN - “The Noose: An American Nightmare”
CNN - “Suffering in Silence”
Paul Finebaum - “Paul Finebaum Radio Network”
WFAA-TV (Dallas) - “KinderPrison”

Print Winners

Eric Deggans, The St. Petersburg Times – Portfolio of Work
The Daily Times (Farmington, NM), Troy Turner - Portfolio of Work
David Gonzalez, The New York Times –“House Afire”
Jonathan Kaufman, The Wall Street Journal- Portfolio of Work
The Miami Herald - “A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans”
Judy Pasternak, The Los Angeles Times – “Blighted Homeland”
The Philadelphia Inquirer – “Too Tough: Tactics in Suburban Policing”
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) – “Can We Save Our Neighborhoods?”
Sun-Sentinel (South - Florida) – “The New South Florida”
William C. Rhoden, The New York Times - Portfolio of Work