NAHJ CONVENTION:
Nearly 1,600 journalists and media executives -- a record number -- attended the National Association of Hispanic Journalists' 19th annual convention in Phoenix June 20-23. Among convention highlights were a plenary session on U.S.-México relations featuring México Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda, and the induction of Hispanic Link publisher Charlie Ericksen, pioneer Southwest radio journalist Peter Moraga and retired Tucson print media executive Edith Auslander into the NAHJ Hall of Fame.
At the annual Noche de Triunfos gala, The Arizona Daily Star reporter Carmen Duarte won the Guillermo Martínez-Márquez award, given to the top overall entry in the professional journalism competition. She won for "Mama's Santos," a 36-part series that ran Feb. 13 - March 19, 2000, personifying the Arizona cotton industry by focusing on Duarte's mother, Leonarda "Nala" Bejarano Duarte.The Associated Press' Alan Díaz won Best of Show, awarded to the top overall photo entry. He won for his entry "Elián," the same photo that earned him a Pulitzer Prize earlier this year. The photo showed an armed federal agent removing Elián González from the home of his Miami relatives. Univisión anchor María Elena Salinas, who served as the gala's emcee, received the NAHJ President's Award for her 20-year tenure as a journalist with the network.
For a complete list of winners and convention coverage, visit the association's Web site: www.nahj.org
NAMES:
María Martin, executive producer of Latino USA, is named the program's interim executive director. She will oversee fundraising and marketing operations as well as editorial direction of the program, distributed by National Public Radio to more than 200 stations across the United States...The National Society of Newspaper Columnists awards Tim Chávez, a columnist for The Tennessean, its Will Rogers Humanitarian Award for work benefitting the community during its recent convention in San Francisco.
