Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Announces 2023 Book and Journalism Awards Winners
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Wednesday, May 3, 2023
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Winners of the 2023 RFK Journalism Awards were selected from over 450 global submissions to 13 categories, including a recently updated Criminal Justice category and pieces presented in a "nontraditional" format.
Key Points:
- Winners of the 2023 RFK Journalism Awards were selected from over 450 global submissions to 13 categories, including a recently updated Criminal Justice category and pieces presented in a "nontraditional" format.
- "Despite frequent attacks on their work – and in some cases, their safety – journalists and authors around the world continue to courageously expose injustice," said Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.
- The full list of honorees for the 2023 RFK Book and Journalism Awards can be found below.
- Special thanks to historian and author Michael Beschloss, head of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award committee, and Margaret Engel, director of the Alicia Patterson Journalism Foundation and chair of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards committee, as well as the more than 90 volunteer judges who participated this year.