3 Times Reporters Win RFK Journalism Award
Three Los Angeles Times reporters were named winners of a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for articles detailing the plight of Third World children dying of preventable, curable diseases, the head of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial announced Thursday.
John-Thor Dahlburg, John Balzar and Juanita Darling will receive the International Print Award on May 2 at the Freedom Forum World Center in Arlington, Va. Their award is among eight annual RFK prizes for reporting on the problems of the disadvantaged.
Dahlburg, Balzar and Darling won for their two-part series, “Doomed to Die Young,” which illustrated how afflictions such as rubeola have become dreaded plagues in many impoverished nations.
The articles “show how a serious problem worldwide that afflicts millions of children can be easily overlooked--and solved,” said Bill Hamilton, head of the awards committee.
Among the other winners were reporters from the New Orleans Times-Picayune for a report on Medicaid fraud, CBS News for a documentary on violence in America, and National Public Radio for a profile of a heroin addict.
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