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Harry Chapin Media Awards — 1996

The Awards were presented at a ceremony in New York City on June 26, 1997.

BEST BOOK
  • First Prize: - Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America, Leon Dash (Basic Books)
  • Second Prize - The Price of a Dream, David Bornstein (Simon & Schuster)

BEST BROADCAST (Film, Television, Radio)
  • First Prize: - "Living on the Edge," Frontline, PBS, May 28, 1996
  • Second Prize: - "Fly Away Home," Reading Rainbow, PBS, April 8, 1996

JUDGE'S AWARD
  • "Migrant Farm Workers in New York State," Tina Tan, WAMC Northeast Public Radio Network, November 28-29, 1996
BEST NEWSPAPER
  • First Prize: - "Barely Four Walls," The New York Times
  • Second Prize: - "Journey to the Promised Land," S. Lynne Walker,The San Diego Union Tribune
BEST PERIODICAL
  • First Prize: - "Slamming the Door: The Year That Housing Died," Jason De Parle, The New York Times Magazine
  • Second Prize: - Continuing Stories and Outreach to Children by React Magazine
BEST PHOTOJOURNALISM
  • First Prize: - "Into the Heart of Darkness," Colin Mulvany, The Spokesman-Review
  • Second Prize: - "Sleeping With Ghosts," Don McCullin (Aperture Foundation, Inc.)
   
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