Dart Award for Excellence in Reporting on Victims of Violence
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The Short Life of Victor Alexander Matthey
The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ)

An article depicting the unhappy life of a Siberian boy whose violent death is told against the larger story of his birth parents, the orphanage that briefly shelters him, and his abusive adoptive parents in America.

HONORABLE MENTION
Aftershocks of a Crime Spree
Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI)

A series describing the impact of a string of armed robberies on its many victims, including the trauma experienced by the police officer who shot and killed the suspect.

HONORABLE MENTION
Camp Z30-D: The Survivors
Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA)

Written with grace and restraint, these stories of Vietnamese men and women imprisoned for “re-education” reveal their suffering in the camp and their struggles as refugees in the U.S.

HONORABLE MENTION
Latisha's Children
St. Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN)

A six-part series following the lives of four small children after their mother was murdered by her boyfriend, and of the grandmother who stepped forward to care for them.

 
 
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