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Silver Gavel Awards for Media and The Arts

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1997 Silver Gavel Award Honorable Mentions

NEWSPAPERS
Juvenile Justice: Caught in a Bind
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
Mark Braykovich and Cameron McWhirter, Reporters

A three-part series that analyzed the effects of binding juvenile offenders over to adult court, a popular idea intended to deter juvenile crime that the investigation found to be ineffective.

Protected Witness
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Bill Moushey, Staff Writer

A series on how the Federal Witness Protection Program, originally created to protect innocent witnesses and combat organized crime, has itself become a danger to public safety.

MAGAZINES
No Gavel Award Honorable Mentions were presented in this category in 1997.
BOOKS
Decision: How the Supreme Court Decides Cases
Bernard Schwartz, Author
Oxford University Press

Based on documentary and oral sources--many not publicly available--Decision presents a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of the Court and the justices.

Rights of People Who Are HIV Positive
Southern Illinois University Press
William B. Rubenstein, Ruth Eisenberg and Lawrence O. Gostin, Authors

Using a simple question-and-answer format, this American Civil Liberties Union guide explains the legal rights of people who are HIV positive or have AIDS.

THEATRE
No Honorable Mentions were presented in this category in 1997.
TELEVISION
Eyewitness
NBC "Dateline"
New York, New York
Len Cannon, Correspondent; Meade R. Jorgensen, Producer; Ina Smith, Editor

A "Dateline" segment that reexamines a notorious Denver murder/bank robbery case to illustrate the problems with eyewitness testimony.

What's It Worth?
NBC "Dateline"
New York, New York
Len Cannon, Correspondent; Lynn Boswell, Producer; Julie Mondimore, Assoc. Producer

An illuminating piece that uses three civil cases to explore how monetary damages are assigned to non-monetary injuries.

RADIO
Assisted Suicide
WAMU-FM "The Derek McGinty Show"
Washington, DC
Derek McGinty, Host/Executive Producer and Elaine Bole, Producer

Airing on the day briefs had to be filed in the assisted suicide case before the Supreme Court during the 1996 Term, this 58-minute program presents three different points of view of this highly charged case.

FILMS AND VIDEOS
Paradise Lost
Creative Thinking International
New York, New York
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, Co-Filmmakers

A true story of the most notorious murder case in Arkansas history. The filmmakers, granted unprecedented access to all the players in this real-life drama, captured the events in the shocking aftermath of the crime as they unfolded before their cameras.


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