CCEM Honors Members of the Community and Ethnic Media at the 2017 Ippies Awards

  • By Newmark J-School Staff

Members of the community and ethnic media gathered at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism on May 18, 2017 for the 15th annual Ippies Awards, which honored the best work produced in this independent, non-mainstream media sector in 2016.

Keynote speaker City Council member Carlos Menchaca spoke about the need for information in responding to the federal administration’s “harmful policies that continue to target our people – our immigrants, our Muslims and our undocumented immigrants and the LGBT people.”

In this environment, he said, journalists, elected officials and communities “are all lifting democracy, and it is not easy. We all have to lift that together. That burden is our burden.”

The 2016 Voices of NY award, given to a member of the community and ethnic press who has done extraordinary work, went to Rong Xiaoqing, reporter with Sing Tao Daily, for the “spectacular job” she does in covering the Chinese community with “sensitivity, detail and nuance.” She also took the third place prize for best story about a community with “Sister Ping’s Alumni,” which the judges called “a haunting account of the legacy of the infamous Golden Venture smuggling ring and its Chinese mastermind.”

Here is the list of the 2017 Ippies winners:

BEST INVESTIGATIVE/IN-DEPTH STORY

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

 

BEST STORY ABOUT A COMMUNITY

 First Place

Second Place

Third Place

 

BEST SOCIAL ISSUES STORY

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

 

BEST SMALL CIRCULATION PUBLICATION

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

 

BEST EDITORIAL/COMMENTARY

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

 

BEST OVERALL DESIGN OF A PRINT PUBLICATION

First Place

Second Place

  • Entry Title: September 9, 2016
  • Recipient: Elaine Tin Nyo, Anya Ulinich, Kurt Hoffman
  • Publication: Forward

Third Place

  • Entry Title: October 1, 2016
  • Recipient: Onur Aydemir
  • Publication: Forum USA

 

BEST OVERALL DESIGN OF AN ONLINE PUBLICATION

First Place

Second Place

  • Recipient: Liena Zagare
  • Publication: BKLYNER

Third Place

 

BEST PHOTOGRAPH

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

 

BEST VIDEO

First Place

  • Entry Title: Seeing Myself
  • Recipient: Raquel Salazar
  • Publication: BRIC TV

Second Place

Third Place

 

BEST MULTIMEDIA PACKAGE

First Place

Second Place

Third Place

 

VOICES OF NY AWARD

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