AAN News
Former Gambit Journalist Wins Katrina Media Fellowship
Katy Reckdahl is one of 31 recipients of the Katrina Media Fellowships, announced Thursday by the Open Society Institute. The grants were created "to promote a national conversation on racism and inequality in America." The recipients will split $950,000; special consideration was given to applicants who were
displaced from or residents of the Gulf Region. Reckdahl, a staff writer for Gambit Weekly at the time of the storm, will use her fellowship "to write about the
daily life in New Orleans' Tremé and Irish Channel neighborhoods,
focusing on people living in poverty and the challenges they face in
terms of jobs, housing, health care, and indigent defense."
06-30-2006 12:59 pm |
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Tags: Editorial, Katy Reckdahl
Former Gambit Writer's Tabloid-Worthy 'Amazing True Life Story'
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04-14-2006 12:54 pm |
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Gambit Staffer Describes Her Ordeal in New Orleans Hospitalnew
When the order to evacuate came, Gambit Weekly staff writer Katy Reckdahl had to decide which would be worse: staying in New Orleans for the storm or delivering her first child in a car on the evacuation route. She stayed. Here is her account of her son's first days at Touro Infirmary and her family's eventual escape from the city.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
09-09-2005 3:21 pm |
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Gambit Weekly Welcomes Katy Reckdahl to Editorial Staff
Gambit Weekly news release |
08-26-2003 2:19 pm |
Press Releases
Rall, Reckdahl Honorednew
Cartoonist Ted Rall, whose work appears in several AAN papers, and Katy Reckdahl, a frequent contributor to Gambit Weekly, are among the five winners of the 2002 James Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism. The judges say that Rall's "Cartooning with a Conscience" has "increasingly grown irreverent, cutting and iconoclastic, almost at times seeming to
eschew humor in favor of mordant portraiture." Reckdahl was recognized for her work on the homeless of New Orleans. "Reckdahl's work challenges the stereotype that the homeless create their own
situation because they are criminals, substance abusers or mentally ill," the judges wrote.
James Aronson Awards for Social Justice Journalism news release |
03-12-2003 5:01 pm |
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2002 Aronson Awards Honor Two AAN Contributors
The James Aronson Award for Social Justice news release |
03-12-2003 4:46 pm |
Press Releases
Gambit's Reckdahl Honored for Juvenile Justice Seriesnew
Katy Reckdahl wins a 2002
Casey Journalism Center Medal for
Distinguished Coverage of Children and
Family Issues. Her award in the
non-daily newspaper category is for her
"full and compelling report on the troubled
Tallulah Correctional Center for Youth"
that appeared last year in Gambit
Weekly, the center's release states.
The series won a first-place in the
news feature category of the
Alternative Newsweekly Awards.
The Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families |
10-01-2002 3:30 pm |
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