{"id":67305,"date":"2006-09-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/first-grantham-prize-awarded\/"},"modified":"2006-09-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T00:00:00","slug":"first-grantham-prize-awarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/09\/first-grantham-prize-awarded\/","title":{"rendered":"First Grantham Prize Awarded"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tFirst $75,000 Grantham Prize for Environmental Journalism

\nAwarded to Journalists with The Record of New Jersey for \u2018Toxic Legacy\u2019<\/p>\n


\nFor more information, contact Stephen Turgeon, (401) 289-0112<\/p>\n


\nNarragansett, September 5, 2006 \u2013A nine-member reporting team with The Record newspaper (Bergen County, N.J.) is the 2006 winner of the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment. The team won the $75,000 prize for its \u201cToxic Legacy\u201d investigative series on pollution caused by a Mahwah, N.J., Ford Motor Company automobile-assembly plant.<\/p>\n


\n\tGrantham Prize jurors described The Record\u2019s 2005 series as \u201cenvironmental watchdog reporting of the highest order, marked by exhaustive reporting, stellar writing, and an innovative multimedia presentation that sets a new standard.\u201d The award is to be shared by nine Record journalists who spent eight months investigating how actions of the company, government officials, and organized crime exposed northern New Jersey residents to numerous environmental risks.<\/p>\n


\nThe äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾\u2019s Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting and the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment created the Grantham prize last year. The prize honors the work of one journalist or team of journalists for exemplary reporting on the environment. The annual prize is open to journalists, writers and producers in the U.S. and Canada and recognizes nonfiction work published or broadcast in the previous calendar year.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe Record\u2019s October 2 \u2013 6, 2005, series led to an unprecedented federal re-listing of the contaminated site as a Superfund national priority cleanup site. The series prompted the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Inspector General to initiate a first-ever investigation into whether \u201cracial, cultural or socioeconomic issues\u201d played a role in the government\u2019s cleanup shortcomings, and it led to a federal recommendation for health screening of hundreds of residents in the Ringwood, N.J., area affected by the site. The paper\u2019s website for the series consists of an impressive collection of reporters\u2019 comments, video, official documents, maps, photographs, and text of the actual series.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe Grantham Prize jurors also chose to recognize three additional works of exemplary environmental journalism. The following entries will receive \u201cAwards of Special Merit,\u201d each carrying a $5,000 prize.<\/p>\n


\nDouglas Fischer of the Oakland Tribune, for his series \u201cOur Body\u2019s Burden: Our Chemical Legacy.\u201d The jurors said the series \u201ctakes science reporting to a new level by applying scientific method in an original investigation of the presence of toxic chemicals in a local family.\u201d <\/p>\n


\nElizabeth Kolbert of The New Yorker for \u201cThe Climate of Man,\u201d a series about the science and effects of climate change, which the jurors described as a \u201ctriumph of environmental journalism\u201d for its \u201cthoroughness, elegance, and persuasiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nJohn Sherman and Beau Kershaw of WBAL-TV, Baltimore, Md., for \u201cDirty Secret.\u201d The jurors called the piece \u201cgood, dogged broadcast journalism\u201d marked by \u201cgreat photography\u201d and \u201ca fast-paced editing style.\u201d Other local and national TV media \u201cshould follow WBAL\u2019s lead and give their employees the time and resources to produce outstanding TV environmental journalism that makes a difference,\u201d the jurors said.<\/p>\n


\nThe Record and the additional three honorees will receive their awards at a September 25 prize ceremony and seminar to be held at the Metcalf Institute in Narragansett, R.I., on September 25.<\/p>\n


\nThe Grantham Prize was funded by Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham through The Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment. The foundation supports natural resource conservation programs both in the United States and internationally. Jeremy Grantham is a Boston-based investment strategist and Hannelore Grantham is the Director of The Grantham Foundation.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting was established in 1997 with funding from three media foundations — the Belo Corporation, the Providence Journal Charitable Foundation and the Philip L. Graham Fund — and the Telaka Foundation. It is named after the late Michael P. Metcalf, a visionary in journalism and publisher of The Providence Journal Bulletin from 1979-1987. The Metcalf Institute provides science training for reporters and editors to help improve the accuracy and clarity of marine and environmental reporting and offers journalism fellowships in support of diversity and reporting on science and the environment.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First $75,000 Grantham Prize for Environmental Journalism Awarded to Journalists with The Record of New Jersey for \u2018Toxic Legacy\u2019 For more information, contact Stephen Turgeon, (401) 289-0112 Narragansett, September 5, 2006 \u2013A nine-member reporting team with The Record newspaper (Bergen County, N.J.) is the 2006 winner of the Grantham Prize for Excellence in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}