WACC Member Awarded Chavkin Prize

Jane Regan, WACC member in the Caribbean Region, with Daniel Morel, co-recipients of the 2004 Samuel Chavkin Prize for Integrity in Latin American Journallism. Photo: Seitu Morel

Daniel Morel, a native Haitian, and Jane Regan, a writer and documentary filmmaker, have worked extensively in Haiti—for 20 years and 10 years respectively—and have produced an impressive array of work on the country. Their work has appeared in scores of magazines, newspapers, news programs, photo-essays, books and reports both in Haiti and throughout the world. Currently, they work jointly on Wozo Productions, a multimedia production partnership documenting Haitian culture and politics. Daniel Morel also contributes presently to Reuters, Corbis, South Florida Sun Sentinel, while Jane Regan often writes for South Florida Sun Sentinel, Interpress Service, Latinamerica Press, and Christian Science Monitor. For years, Haiti Info (the bulletin of the WACC-supported Haitian information Bureau) ran photos donated by Daniel Morel. “That is how our association started... then in 2002 we started to work together more, and expanded into video and multimedia”  Jane told Action.

The Chavkin Prize is awarded every 18 months to an outstanding investigative reporter working in Latin America or the Caribbean. The award is administered by NACLA, and endowed by the family of the late investigative reporter, Samuel Chavkin, who worked for some 40 years covering political events in Latin America. The prize was created to encourage the growth and development of journalism that exposes injustice, oppression or documents the struggle for social justice and democracy in Latin America. Previous winners of the prize range from Alma Guillermoprieto of The New Yorker and Tina Rosenberg of The New York Times to Angel Paéz of La República in Peru, Ignacio Gómez, an investigative reporter and editor at El Espectador in Bogotá and the 2003 recipient, Stella Calloni, South American correspondent for the Mexican daily La Jornada.

NACLA is an independent non-profit organization founded in 1966 that provides policymakers, activists, analysts, teachers, journalists, and religious and community groups with information on major trends in Latin America and its relations with the United  States. For 37 years, NACLA has offered resources essential to creating critical public awareness of U.S. policies and practices in the region. The core of NACLA’s work is its publication, NACLA Report on the Americas, which combines rigorous research and comprehensive analysis with an accessible style. With a circulation of nearly 10,000, it is the largest English-language magazine on Latin America.

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