Mental Health Notes

Winners Of The Mental Health America 2008 Media Awards

by Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes on June 6th, 2008

Back in February I told you all about the Mental Health America 2008 Media Awards. These awards honor news and feature stories of mental health issues in print, online, and broadcast media and on national, state, and student levels.

Well, Mental Health America has announced the winners, and will honor them Saturday, June 7, 2008:

Mental Health America will honor twelve professional and student journalists for outstanding coverage of mental health issues tomorrow at a Media Awards luncheon held during its Inaugural Mental Health Promotion and Prevention Summit in Washington, D.C.

The categories and winners include:

• Local Television: WTHR (Indianapolis, IN), “Help Me, I’m Dying,” by Anne Marie Tiernon
• National Television: Keeping Kids Healthy/WNET (New York, NY), “Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia - A Life Interrupted,” by Susan Berger Sabreen, Rich Sabreen, Anja Baron and A. Thomas Tebbens
• Local Radio: WNYC (New York, NY), “Cities Embrace New Ways to Handle Confrontations Between Cops and the Mentally Ill,” by Arun Venugopal
• Advice Columns: The Palm Beach Post, “Kicking Depression” Weekly Column, by Christine Stapleton
• Local/Regional Magazines: Dallas Child, “Diagnosing Joey: Unraveling the Mysteries of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder,” by Jenny B. Davis and Shelley Hawes Pate
• National Magazines: Ladies’ Home Journal, “Broken Promise,” by David France and Diane Salvatore
• Newspapers with a Circulation Below 100,000: East Valley Tribune (Phoenix, AZ), “Pam’s Story,” by Mary K. Reinhart and Patti Epler
• Newspapers with a Circulation Above 100,000: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Hidden Shame” Series, by Alan Judd and Andy Miller
• Students Journalism: Columbia Missourian/Associated Press, “Looking for a Way Home,” by Jennifer Whitney
• Photo Essay: The Los Angeles Times, “Breakdown: A Family’s Struggle with Mental Illness,” by Robert Gauthier
• National Reporting: The Nation, Series on the “Personality Disorder” Scandal, by Joshua Kors
• Timely Coverage of a Mental Health Issue: The Wall Street Journal, “The Price of Privacy” Series, by Elizabeth Bernstein and John Blanton

Congratulations to all the winners!

If you think you have what it takes for the Mental Health America Media Awards, Mental Health America will begin distributing nomination guides near the beginning of 2009 for the next awards. You can subscribe to their email list to stay up to date.

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