EL ANDAR SWEEPS TOP AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM AND PHOTOJOURNALISM
Takes top photography prize four years running
El Andar —the national magazine that covers political and cultural trends in the US Latino community— has won two top awards and three runners-up from the New California Media (NCM) Awards. NCM – America's most diverse media network – honored the winners at the NCM Awards Banquet at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills on September 17. El Andar’s winners include Paul Myers for “Guatemala: Exhuming the Past,” Best Photo Essay Award, and Catherine Worth and Tatiana de la Tierra for “Refugees of an Endless War” and “A Prisoner of Hope,” International Affairs Award. El Andar has won the NCM Photography Prize every year since the Award’s inception in 1997. Dubbed by mainstream media as "the Pulitzers of the ethnic media," the NCM Awards are the only multi-lingual awards for ethnic media journalists in the country. This year NCM received almost 300 entries – “a record-breaking number, which is a testament to the vibrancy of this fast-growing segment of American journalism,” said Eva Martinez, former Director of the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism at San Francisco State University and currently Executive Director of Accion Latina. NCM has a membership of over 400 print, broadcast and online ethnic media organizations in the state of California. NCM is the most comprehensive multi-cultural, multi-ethnic media coalition in the state of California and the country. El Andar also placed three runners-up that include Camille Mojica Rey for Healthcare, Joseph Rodríguez for Spot Photography, and Karina Ioffee, Hillary Cargo and Catherine Worth for the Best in-Depth/Investigative award. El Andar has previously won seven NCM awards and runners-up in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000 for excellence in journalism and photojournalism. According to NCM judges, “Paul Myers puts a human face on Guatemala’s 36-year civil war which killed thousands of Mayan Indians while driving them from their land.” This is the second time NCM awards a prize to Paul Myers for his continuing excellence and commitment to social photojournalism. The judges also commended Myers’ photo essay on Brazil published in El Andar in the Spring of 2001. Catherine Worth won the first prize for her work in reporting the life of Colombian farmers in refugee camps in a Colombian border town with Ecuador. Ms. Worth was an intern at El Andar while attending the University of California, Santa Cruz and before going to work for The Village Voice in New York. Tatiana de la Tierra is a Colombian writer who won this award for her story on intellectual Gustavo Gardeazábal who was at the time in prison in Colombia but was freed five months after the story was published. According to Julie Reynolds, the magazine’s editor, “el Andar’s writers and photographers are committed and passionate about their work.” The magazine and the winning entries may be accessed at www.elandar.com. About el Andar Magazineel Andar has investigative reporting, insightful commentary, short fiction, and poetry, written by iconoclastic thinkers and famous Latin Americans, such as Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Ana Castillo, and Sandra Cisneros. In addition, el Andar is the winner of 15 awards for journalistic and photographic excellence. El Andar was founded by its publisher, Jorge Chino, in 1989. Its beautifully printed pages offer interviews with luminaries such as Edward James Olmos and Pedro Almodovar.
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