The winners of the 36th annual awards will be announced this Spring. A wide range of Chicago-area online, print and broadcast media are finalists this year.
The Windy City Times’ 8-week Generation Halsted series, an in-depth look at the LGBTQ youth, written primarily by Kate Sosin, Erica Demarest and Bill Healy, is a finalist in the Feature Writing category.
Ross Forman’s interview with retired gay football player Esera Tuaolo is a finalist for Sports Story.
And Windy City Times Publisher Tracy Baim is a finalist for writing in two categories: News Column or Commentary (for “In Defense of Cynthia Nixon: Why Born This Way Doesn’t Matter”) and Editorial Writing (“Journalism 101: The myth of objectivity”).
Links to the finalist articles are below:
The 8-week Generation Halsted series, free download link: windycitytimes.com/sign_up_to_rcv2.php.
Ross Forman’s “Esera Tuaolo: Coming back from darkness”: windycitytimes.com/lgbt/Esera-Tuaolo-Coming-back-from-darkness-/38455.html.
Tracy Baim’s “In Defense of Cynthia Nixon: Why Born This Way Doesn’t Matter”: windycitytimes.com/lgbt/VIEWPOINTS-In-Defense-of-Cynthia-Nixon-Why-Born-This-Way-Doesnt-Matter/35799.html.
Tracy Baim’s “Journalism 101: The myth of objectivity”: windycitytimes.com/lgbt/Journalism-101-The-myth-of-objectivity/38578.html.
Headline Club awards link here: www.headlineclub.org/component/content/article/371-congratulations-to-our-lisagor-finalists.html.