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The Oakes Award, founded in 1993 by family, friends and colleagues of John B. Oakes (1913-2001), is given annually for news reporting that makes an exceptional contribution to the public’s understanding of environmental issues. Oakes was an environmental journalism pioneer and an editorial writer for The New York Times.

The Cabot Prizes honor journalists for career excellence and coverage of the Western Hemisphere that furthers inter-American understanding. Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston founded the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes as a memorial to his wife in 1938. They are the oldest international journalism awards.

In a continued expansion of its reporting capacity, PBS’s flagship investigative journalism series, FRONTLINE, is welcoming a Pulitzer Prize-winning video journalist to its team, as well as a reporter for a new interactive documentary and two new FRONTLINE/Columbia Journalism School Fellows.

The Knight-Bagehot Fellowships in Economics and Business at Columbia University has named Lisa Girion of Reuters as the inaugural recipient of the WERT Prize, dedicated to honoring excellence in business reporting and writing by a woman journalist.

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