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Posted on April 22, 2010 at 11:18am

Kansas City Star Wins 2010 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award

April 20, 2010 -- The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights has announced the winners of the 42nd Annual Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards in nine professional and two student categories.

The RFK Journalism Awards honor outstanding reporting on the issues that defined the life and work of Robert F. Kennedy: human rights, social justice, and the power of individual action in the United States and around the world. The awards go to extraordinary examples of journalism that examine the causes, conditions, and remedies of injustice. The winning entries were selected in several rounds by a panel of 60 volunteer judges, all media professionals. The RFK Journalism Committee, which is composed of seven advisors, chose the grand prize winner from the first-place contenders in each category.

The RFK Journalism Awards were established after Robert F. Kennedy’s death by journalists who covered his history-making presidential campaign in 1968.

Domestic Print Winner: “A New Slavery” Human Trafficking in America,” Laura Bauer, Mike McGraw, and Mark Morris, Kansas City Star: The Kansas City Star’s revelatory series exposes America’s weak enforcement system that fails to stop a modern day slave trade of thousands of victims of human trafficking. The team’s impressive reporting results in a distressing collection of individual narratives and a concise legal and policy-based explanation of the nation’s Trafficking Victims Protection Act.

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