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| ABA Announces Silver Gavel Award Winners for 2013 Posted: 15 May 2013 11:00 AM PDT From an ABA news release: (The information below is excerpted from the release) The American Bar Association announced today its selections for the 2013 Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts, which recognize outstanding work that fosters the American public's understanding of law and the legal system. This is the ABA's highest honor in recognition of this purpose, and no more than one Silver Gavel is presented in each category. ... SILVER GAVEL AWARDS BOOKS Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History John Fabian Witt, Author Simon & Schuster/Free Press http://books.simonandschuster.com/Lincoln's-Code/John-Fabian-Witt/9781416569831 DOCUMENTARIES The Central Park Five Florentine Films Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon, Directors/Writers/Producers Michael Levine, Editor Stephanie Jackson, Production Coordinator http://www.florentinefilms.com/ffpages/BOS-frameset.html NEWSPAPERS Lax Controls Leave Ex-Cons Free to Kill Detroit Free Press L.L. Brasier and Gina Damron, Co-Authors and Staff Writers Amalie Nash, Assistant Managing Editor Andre J. Jackson, Staff Photographer Elisha Anderson, Contributor and Staff Writer http://www.freep.com/article/99999999/NEWS06/120928082 TELEVISION Electoral Dysfunction Trio Pictures in association with WTTW National Productions David Deschamps, Leslie D. Farrell and Bennett Singer, Producers/Writers/Directors Mo Rocca, Host Jay Keuper, Editor Joe Friedman, Cinematographer http://electoraldysfunction.org/ HONORABLE MENTIONS BOOKS Stand Up That Mountain: The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail Jay Leutze, Author Simon & Schuster/Scribner http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Jay-Erskine-Leutze/402711770 DOCUMENTARIES West of Memphis Sony Pictures Classics Amy Berg, Director/Producer Damien Echols, Lorri Davis, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, Producers http://www.sonyclassics.com/westofmemphis/ NEWSPAPERS Loss of Trust San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News Karen de Sá, Staff Reporter Dai Sugano and Pat Tehan, Photojournalists http://www.mercurynews.com/trust TELEVISION The Real CSI Frontline (WGBH Boston), ProPublica and the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley Lowell Bergman, Correspondent, Producer and Writer for Frontline Andres Cediel, Producer and Writer Leah Bartos, Reporter for ProPublica Raney Aronson-Rath, Series Senior Producer David Fanning, Executive Producer http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/real-csi/ For more about the Silver Gavel Awards and the ABA's Public Education Division, see here.  |
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