Congrats Corine!

Charlie Green and I are thrilled to pass on that our own Corine Hegland has joined the likes of Molly Ivins, Anthony Lewis, Amy Goodman and other distinguished print journalists by winning the 2006 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for her February 2006 stories on the Guantanamo detainees. The award is given out annually by Hunter College in New York City.

The college picks four or five winners per year, and Corine and National Journal were honored along with a Mother Jones story on man’s harmful effects on the world’s oceans, the Los Angeles Times for exposing the US government’s uranium mining on Navajo land and subsequent abandonment of the Navajo people when radiation began to kill them; and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel for portraying the grave plight and remarkable resiliency of AIDS orphans in Haiti.

The college also gave a special lifetime...