A college journalist’s profile of a recovering teenage heroin addict and a high school journalist’s radio report on sexual cyber-bullying have won The Newspaper Guild-CWA’s 2013 David S. Barr awards.
Andrew Travis Pantazi, 21, a student at the University of Florida in Gainesville, will receive a $1,500 check with his award for “’Cheese’ Heroin: Living on the Edge,” which was published in The Dallas Morning News.
Through lengthy interviews and court records, Pantazi reconstructed the story of a 13-year-old heroin addict who is now six years sober.
The 2013 high school award, which includes a $1,000 check, goes to Temitayo Fagbenle from Vanguard High School in Queens, N.Y.
Barr Award winner Temitayo Fagbenle, 16, in the radio studio.
The 2013 Barr judges, all members of the Guild’s Executive Council, were journalists Martha Waggoner of the Associated Press, Scott Edmonds of the Canadian Press and Kevin Flowers of the Times Publishing Co. in Erie, Penn. Continue reading