Windy City Times’ writer Gretchen Rachel Hammond has been nominated by the Chicago Headline Club for a Peter Lisagor award in the category of non-daily, best in-depth reporting in a community newspaper. The award recognizes work done by local journalists last year.
Hammond is the author of a series on transgender women targeted on Chicago’s West Side, beginning with A tale of two murders: Connected or not, published on September 9, 2014. (Begin the series at the link: windycitytimes.com/lgbt/A-tale-of-two-murders-Connected-or-not/49089.html.)
Also nominated in the category are Larry Gavin of the Evanston RoundTable for “Evanston cradle to career series” and “Evanston School District 65 teacher appraisal system for student growth.”
From: headlineclub.org: The Chicago Headline Club, the largest Society of Professional Journalists chapter in the country, established the Peter Lisagor Awards in 1977 to inspire Chicago-area journalists to follow Lisagor’s outstanding example and to recognize truly superior contributions to journalism. Peter Lisagor, the Chicago Daily News’ Washington bureau chief from 1959 to 1976, was one of the nation’s most respected and well-known journalists.