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The Pittsburgh Black Media Federation is proud to announce the finalists for its 2016 Robert L. Vann Media Awards.
With the Award of Excellence, the Vann program honors exceptional print, broadcast, photography, and online journalism coverage of the African-American and African Diaspora communities of Western Pennsylvania. The list of finalists is below.
“These awards help us to showcase and document the social diversity that is a part of the fabric of Western Pennsylvania,” said Ervin Dyer, co-chair of the Vann awards subcommittee. “These stories give voice to the aspirations and struggles of communities that are too often voiceless, and we are grateful to the journalists and their organizations for the time and resources invested in having these stories told.”
Award winners will be named during PBMF’s annual awards dinner, which will start at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 19, at the University of Pittsburgh’s O’Hara Student Center, 4024 O’Hara St., Oakland.
The Award of Excellence finalists were selected in 29 categories. Entries were published or broadcast between Jan. 1, 2015, and Dec. 31, 2015.
The entries were judged by professional journalists in Asbury, N.J.; Atlanta; Baltimore; Columbus, Ohio; Frederick, Md.; Long Island, N.Y.; Morgantown, W.Va.; Northern Virginia; Tulsa, Okla.; and Washington, D.C.
Also at the dinner, PBMF will present two special awards: the Legacy Award and the inaugural Literacy Champion Award. The honorees were selected by the PBMF membership.
Debbie Norrell, lifestyle editor at the New Pittsburgh Courier, will be given the Legacy Award for her distinguished and varied journalism and theatrical career, which includes local fashion and cultural commentary as well as engagement with national television and radio advertising.
PBMF’s Literacy Champion Award acknowledges an individual or organization that has shown a commitment to increasing literacy in the community.
The honor goes to Lorena Amos Brock, a retired English teacher, co-founder of the United Black Book Clubs of Pittsburgh, founder of book clubs for teens and adults, and literacy advocate.
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@ The O'Hara Student Center Ballroom
at the University of Pittsburgh,
4024 O’Hara Street, Pittsburgh PA 15213 (Oakland)
Reception tickets are $15 each for PBMF members
and $20 each for nonmembers.
Tickets can be purchased online at
www.pbmf.org
Sponsorship packages are also available online
Proceeds from the Vann awards help to fund college scholarships for graduates of PBMF’s Frank Bolden Urban Journalism Workshop for high school students, as well as other federation programs.
In 1988, the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation established the Robert L. Vann Awards to honor excellence in journalism coverage of the African-American community. The contest is open to all communicators for newspapers, magazines, wire services, websites, radio and television stations in Western Pennsylvania.
For more information contact
Ervin Dyer at 412-624-4796
or vannawards@pbmf.org
www.pbmf.org
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