DCU graduates awarded 2019 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
Congratulations to Rosanna Cooney and Catherine Devine, two DCU journalism graduates who are among a group of journalism students who have been awarded the 2019 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award (college category) in the USA.
The award was in recognition of the Carnegie-Knight News21 ‘Hate in America’ investigative reporting project, an eight-month project which looked at acts of intolerance, racism and hate crimes across the USA. Students spent spring/ summer 2018 researching story topics, then travelled across the U.S. during the summer to do reporting in the field.
Rosanna and Catherine were part of the group from 19 universities, who travelled across the States in 2018 to take part in this project. Their work included 12 digital stories, a 43-minute documentary film and a five-episode podcast following the life cycle of hate. The content was published and aired by the major newspapers and news sites across the country.
The RFK Journalism Awards programme honours outstanding reporting on issues that reflect Kennedy’s passions, including human rights, social justice and the power of individual action in the U.S. and around the world. It was founded by a group of journalists covering Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign and has grown to become the largest programme of its kind in the world.