2009 WINNERS - USA

The four US-based members of GLCC – National Lung Cancer Partnership, Prevent Cancer Foundation, CancerCare, and Lung Cancer Alliance – joined together to present the United States Global Lung Cancer Coalition Journalism Awards.

The winners were selected out of 24 finalists, all were from 2009. The three categories were: National Media, Local Media, and New Media.

National Media: Richard Knox of National Public Radio for Non-Smokers Suffer Lung Cancer Stigma, which aired June 29, 2009.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106033956

Mr. Knox’s award was presented on April 6, 2010 by Lung Cancer Alliance advocate Richard Monopoli (on the left).

Local Media: Mark Roth of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette for two stories: Does lung cancer get short shrift? and Lung cancer patient takes aggressive tack, published June 21 and 22, 2009. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09172/978938-114.stm and http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09173/979036-114.stm.

Mr. Roth’s award was presented on April 2, 2010 by LCA’s Director of External Communications, Kay Cofrancesco.

New Media: Jessie Lynne Kerr