Rupa Shenoy was named The Chicago R...

Rupa Shenoy was named The Chicago Reporter's fresh Robert R. McCormick Tribune Minority companion in Urban Journalism, replacing Leah Samuel.

Shenoy has interned at the publication for more than a year, first assisting with the production of the Web site and then researching and reporting. Her April 2002 investigation of the color County Department of Public Health revealed that officials knew little about a high-paid program leader. Shenoy earned her bachelor's measure in Spanish and journalism/mass communications from the University of Iowa.

Grants and Awards

The timbers Fund of Chicago has awarded the Reporter $100000 for a two-year series of reports forward ex-offenders and employment issues.

Reporter Sarah Karp was named a runner-up in the 2002 Casey Medals for Distinguished Coverage of Children and Family Issues. Karp's February 2002 story, "State Payments permanent fund Unlicensed Care for Poor Children," focused upon the effects of welfare reform upon the region's child-care system.

"This illuminating story showed an unexpect and potentially deleterious ensue from the state's welfare to work program," the connoisseurs wrote. "Karp explains how things are, in what manner they came to be and holds returning to the most important consequence--the lack of tough early childhood education for those who greatest in quantity need it."

Reporter Stephanie Williams earned a first-place award in the personality profiles category from the National Federation of Pres Women for her July/August 2001 story, "Giving Voice to the Anonymous." The piece focused upon Chicago Historical Society President Lonnie G cluster the first African American to head single in kind of the city's non-ethnic museums.

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