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The National Education Writers Association handed out its annual awards for excellence in education reporting, and the Sun-Times received three trophies this time around.
Rosalind Rossi and Art Golab's were honored for their "Schooled in Fear" series, which this past summer took a look at how Chicago Public Schools students adapt to (and cope with) an ever-more-prevalent culture of violence in schools and the surrounding communities. Rossi also took first prize in the major market beat reporting category, and Kate Grossman's "Calming Our Classrooms" editorial received first prize in the major market opinion category.
Covering public schools is never an easy job, and crime reporting is just about as complicated (and fun); that they were able to get a three-part series out of the subject seems obvious, but add the legendary difficulty of getting the straight story out of the CPS and the Chicago Police Department, and the magnitude of Rossi and Golab's work makes itself apparent. It's easy to rip on the Sun-Times for a lot of what they put out on a daily basis, but Rossi and Golab's series was at once useful, relevant, informative and moving. In other words, it was journalism, and an increasingly rare example of the kind people are suddenly clamoring to save.
(Note to the easily heartbroken: don't look at the kids' drawings. Seriously, don't.)
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