Representatives of the Vietnam Reporting Project will discuss its award-winning coverage of the consequences of Agent Orange contamination in Vietnam at the upcoming conference “Agent Orange and Addressing the Legacy of the War in Vietnam.” VRP Director Jon Funabiki, editor De Tran and photographer Catherine Karnow will participate in the “Vietnam Reporting Project: The [...]
‘Leaves Keep Falling’ selected for Media That Matters Film Festival
“The Leaves Keep Falling,” a short film by Julie Winokur and Vietnam Reporting Project fellow Ed Kashi, will be screened at the 11th annual Media That Matters Film Festival in New York on Oct. 27. Videographer/photographer Ed Kashi and photographer Catherine Karnow traveled to Da Nang, Vietnam as Vietnam Reporting Project fellows in the summer [...]
VRP Fellows Receive AAJA Awards
Three Vietnam Reporting Project Fellows received journalism awards from the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) at its 2011 convention in Detroit, Michigan on Saturday, August 13. AP Photographer Nick Ut received AAJA’s Lifetime Achievement Award, its highest honor, given to an individual “who has demonstrated courage and commitment to the principles of journalism over the [...]
‘Unfinished Business’ receives APME Journalism Excellence Award
The Plain Dealer has won the 2011 APME Journalism Excellence Award in International Perspective for it’s six-part series “Unfinished Business,” by VRP fellow Connie Schultz.
‘Leaves Keep Falling’ selected for Artivist Film Festival
The 15-minute film by Julie Winokur and VRP fellow Ed Kashi, has been selected for Artivist Film Festival and has received an award in the category of “Environmental Preservation.”
Nick Ut receives AAJA Lifetime Achievement Award
Vietnam Reporting Project fellow Nick Ut is the recipient of the Asian American Journalists Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the organization’s highest individual honor.
