Thurgood Marshall Journalism Awards — 2007


The Death Penalty Information Center is proud to announce the win­ners of the orga­ni­za­tion’s 11th Annual Thurgood Marshall Journalism Awards. The awards hon­or jour­nal­ists who have made an excep­tion­al con­tri­bu­tion to cov­er­age of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment issues.

This year’s cer­e­mo­ny was held at the National Press Club on Thursday June 28 and fea­tured keynote speak­er Mike Farrell, star of the tele­vi­sion show M*A*S*H and a life­long human rights activist.

This year’s award recipients were:
  • Gary Fields, for Outstanding Print Journalism. Fields’ Wall Street Journal arti­cle, ​“Criminal Mind”, explored the moral and legal impli­ca­tions of admin­is­ter­ing cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment to the men­tal­ly ill through the case of Tennessee death row inmate Gregory Thompson.
  • Alan Johnson of the Columbus Dispatch, and Eleanor Hayes, Amy Rogan, Jamie Walters, and Jeff Gostomski of the Ohio News Network for Outstanding Broadcast Journalism. This team’s mul­ti-media news pack­age inves­ti­gat­ing the inno­cence claim of Ohio death row inmate John Spirko was one of the most expan­sive of its kind, includ­ing exten­sive cov­er­age in the Columbus Dispatch, a one-hour ONN tele­vised spe­cial, and a news sto­ry on the Columbus affil­i­ate of CBS-TV.
  • Maurice Possley and Steve Mills of the Chicago Tribune for Outstanding Investigative Journalism. Their new series exam­ined Texas’ exe­cu­tion of Carlos de Luna and revealed evi­dence that the state may have exe­cut­ed an innocent man.
  • The staff of The Angolite, who received spe­cial recog­ni­tion for cov­er­age of crim­i­nal jus­tice issues. The Angolite, an award-win­ning prison mag­a­zine, has been cov­er­ing top­ics relat­ed to the penal sys­tem for over 50 years. Their cov­er­age has includ­ed a vari­ety of hard-hit­ting news fea­tures on the death penalty.
See Thurgood Marshall Journalism Awards.
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