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WLRN Staffers Win National Awards for Coverage of Black and Hispanic Communities

WLRN reporters Tim Padgett and Nadege Green

WLRN journalists Nadege Green and Tim Padgett were selected by the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) as recipients of several awards for work produced during 2015.  Nadege covers South Florida’s black and Haitian communities, while Tim focuses on stories and commentary involving Latin America and the Caribbean.

Nadege won three of the large market radio categories in the NABJ competition, besting entries from the nation’s largest radio stations for Investigative as well as Long and Short Form News reporting.

Her investigative coverage of the shooting of Lavall Hall, the mentally troubled Miami Gardens man who police said attacked the officers with a broomstick allegedly prompting his shooting, won the Investigative category. Nadege’s reports included interviews with the victim’s family as well as a video taken justprior to the shooting showing no broomstick in Hall’s hands.

Two high-risk groups left out of most HIV prevention efforts were the focus of Nadege’s illuminating reporting for the Health News Florida series HIV In Florida.

 
Her stories, Black Straight Men Ignored in HIV Prevention and Transgender Women Vulnerable to HIVsecured the win in NABJ’s Long Form News category.

She also won that competition’s Short Form News category with her revealing report of attendees’ perspectives at an emergency meeting of the North Miami Beach Police Department where the chief publicly apologized for using mugshots of young black men for target practice

Tim Padgett won the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) award in the Radio – Hard News category for a reunification story that aired days before Christmas last year. The piece movingly shares the dilemma faced by Central American immigrant families that reunite in the U.S. after years apart. The story, The Struggle for Children After Arriving in the U.S., was part of the Murrow Award-winning series, The Migration Maze, co-produced with the Miami Herald.

 

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