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2005 IPPIES Awards Winners

The Independent Press Association's Ippies Awards 2005 marked an important year of accomplishments for the independent – community and ethnic – journalists.  A year when, in response to our journalists' serious complaints about lack of access to city government information, Mayor Michael Bloomberg designated a contact person in all city agencies to respond to our queries, thus institutionalizing access for our members.  A year when all NYC mayoral candidates sought out IPA members journalists to let their views be known to the communities.

The IPA's Ippies are the only journalism awards that honor the excellent work of New York metropolitan journalist who also report in languages other than English.

IPA asked its member publications to submit their best work for consideration in five editorial categories and three graphics categories. 

• The awards are divided into circulation classes:  Division A includes newspapers with circulation up to 20,000.  Division B includes newspapers above 20,000 circulation.  Division C includes ethnic and community magazines of any circulation.
• An independent panel of judges, all established journalists and graphic artists, read all the articles, reviewed all the photographs and graphic layouts and held all the submissions to high standards of journalistic excellence. 
• Our editorial judges were Michael Arena, University Director of Media Relations at the City University of New York, Alyssa Katz, Editor-at-large for City Limits magazine and Elaine Rivera, an award-winning freelance journalist. Our graphic design judges were Angel Franco, photographer for the New York Times and Naheed Choudry, photo editor for the New York Sun.
• Non-English entries were translated by the IPA into English for their review. 
• The final decisions were made by the judges independently of the IPA.

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The 2005 IPPIES Winners:

EDITORIAL AWARDS

Best Investigative or In-Depth News Story

Class A

“Miscues in Search for Delivery Man” by Jordan Moss and Heather Haddon, Norwood News, First Place

“East Side Eviction,” by Steven Wishnia, The Indypendent, Second Place

“Major Rabbinical Council Slammed for Releasing Names in Sexual Abuse Case” by Rukhl Scheachter and Eric J. Greenberg, Yiddish Forward, Third Place

“Courting Youth” by Kiera Butler, The Indypendent, Honorable Mentions

Class B

“Children Forced to Become Killers, Sex Slaves in Forgotten Uganda War” by Marc Perelman, Forward, First Place

“Chinatown: Pockets of Votes that No Candidate can Afford to Miss” by Chih Yi Chen, World Journal, Second Place

“Death by Lottery” by Matthew Vaz and Joaquin Morante, Our Time Press, Third Place

Class C

“MRI tourists” by Lavina Melwani, Little India, First Place

“The Hard Sell” by Cara Brumfield, New Youth Connections, Second Place

“No Room at the Inn” by Brian J. Carreira, Brooklyn Rail, Third Place

“Coming to America” by Iris Liao, Sino Monthly New Jersey, Honorable Mentions

Best Feature

Class A

“Soldier's Story” by John Tarleton, The Indypendent, First Place

“Greenpoint Shore Dilemma” by Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, Nowy Dziennik, Second Place

“Autumn of an American Revolutionist” by Zbigniew Basara, Nowy Dziennik, Third Place

“The Big Payback” by Macollvie Jean-Francois, The Haitian Times, Honorable Mentions

Class B

"A Life Undocumented" by Georgina Brennan, Irish Voice, First Place

“The Real Next Wave: Here Come the Chinese Conductors” by David Hsieh, World Journal, Second Place

“Chinatown’s Twelve Movie Theaters are Gone” by Jackie Wang, Sing Tao Daily, Third Place

“Cairo: Home Sweet Home...Or Is it?” by Linda Heard, Aramica, Honorable Mentions

Class C

“Frosted Yellow Willow” by I-Ching Ng, Ming Pao Monthly, First Place

“The Borinqueneers” by Victor Melendez, Dominican Times, Second Place

“Kricket! Reflections of an Overseas Indian Fan” by Sadanand Dhume, Little India, Third Place

“I Can Do It Myself” by Tania Morales, New Youth Connections, Honorable Mentions

Best Editorial/Commentary

Class A

“The crusade and the Closet” by Nicholas Powers, The Indypendent, First Place

“The ‘American Dream’ Threatened?” by Mikhail Tripolsky, Russian Bazaar, Second Place

“Occupation vs. Terrorism: What Should Be Our Stand” by Jawed Anwar, Muslims Weekly, Third Place

“Spring Marathon” by Leah Moses, Russian Bazaar, Honorable Mentions

“Death of a Tradesman” by William Brandon Jourdan, The Indypendent

Class B

“Water Rage: We are Afraid” by J.J. Goldberg, Forward, First Place

“History in a Block of Granite” by David Mark Greaves, Our Time Press, Second Place

Class C

“Striking the Alarm of Human Conscience” by I-Ching Ng, Ming Pao Monthly, First Place

“Arthur Miller’s Brooklyn Legacy” by Theodore Hamm, The Brooklyn Rail, Second Place

“The Dance of Civilizations” by Susie Linfield, Dissent, Third Place

Best Article on Immigrant Issues/Racial or Social Justice

Class A

“Surviving Deportation” by Macollvie Jean-Francois, The Haitian Times, First Place

“Doing Time at a Detention Center: Abu Ghraib Comes Home” by Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, Nowy Dziennik, Second Place

“Vendors on the Lam” by Andrew Silverstein, The Indypendent, Third Place

“Record Muslim Voter Turnout” by Jehangir Khattak, Muslims Weekly, Honorable Mentions

Class B

“A Hundred People Sharing a Thousand Square Feet Rooms” by Liz Chow, Sing Tao Daily, First Place

“Unveil Sister Ping” by Jing Lin, China Press, Second Place

“The Confessions of a Flushing Streetwalker” by Yuting Zhou, Ming Pao Monthly, Third Place

“Undocumented Students’ Plea: ‘Don’t Make Us Leave’” by Anna Salomon, Super Express, Honorable Mentions

Class C

“Give Me Four More Years" by Iris Liao, Sino Monthly New Jersey, First Place

“Dominicans in the U.S.” by Jose Morillo, Dominican Times, Second Place

“Kentucky Coal Mine Bubbe” by Maya Bernstein, Lilith, Third Place

Best Article on Labor Issues

Class A

“Change or Bust: Haitian School Bus Drivers Join New Groups to Challenge Union's Old Guard" by Macollvie Jean-Francois, Haitian Times, First Place

“No Social Security Benefits for Immigrants” by Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, Second Place

“Nickel-and-Dimed on Knickerbocker Avenue” by Sarah Stuteville, The Indypendent, Third Place

“Medical Worker or Servant” by Leah Moses, Russian Bazaar, Honorable Mentions

Class B

“Polish day laborers are Jewish employers' top choice” by Malgorzata Juszczak, Super Express, First Place

“Asian Women as Entrepreneurs are on the Rise” by Ai-Cheng Liu, World Journal, Second Place

“Wenzhouan Vendors Fight for a Living” by Pei Ning Lo, Ming Pao Daily, Third Place

Class C

“When Even the Minimum Wage is a Distant Dream” by Gabriel Thompson, Brooklyn Rail, First Place

“The Last Bicycle Tire Plant” by Gordon Lafer, Dissent, Second Place

GRAPHIC DESIGN AWARDS

Best Photo Essay

“Manhattan Gay Pride Parades” by Ida Lake, Edgar Mata, Oscar Durand, The Indypendent

Second Place, King Fai Lau, Sing Tao Daily

Third Place, Autrim Caskey, The Indypendent

Honorable Mentions, Leni Sonnenfeld, Lilith

Honorable Mentions, Chenghui Hsu, World Journals

Best Overall Design

“Influential Dominicans: Past and Present” by Christina Paniagua, Dominican Times

Second Place, Daily Art Team at Sing Tao Daily News

Third Place, Amelia Hennighausen, The Brooklyn Rail

Best Photograph

“A Man Sleeping in a Chinatown Balcony” by Chenghui Hsu, The World Journal, First Place

Second Place, Yuting Zhou, Ming Pao Daily News

Third Place, Andrew Stern, The Indypendent

Honorable Mentions, Autrim Caskey, The Indypendent