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 James
S. Hogg Award for Mental Health Reporting
Winners
from the previous two years are listed below. Stories for last year's
winners can be viewed as PDF files, which require Adobe
Acrobat Reader.
Winners
for 2005 - 2006
Press
Release - April 10, 2006
Jennifer
Autrey of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram took first place for
her October 2005 article "Questions
Linger after Woman's Death." The article is a look at the tragic
death of a young woman with mental illness who ended up in a Tarrant
County jail after having been unable to find appropriate treatment.
Second place was awarded to Cindy V. Culp of the Waco Tribune-Herald
for her April 2005 article "Downsized
Mental Health System Leans on Police." The article explores
the link between the decreasing availability of public mental health
services and the resulting rise in police contact with people who
have mental illness.
Mary Meaux of the Port Arthur News won third place for her
moving account of her own depression for her December 2005 article
"There is Help for Depression,"
in which she challenges misconceptions about the disorder and informs
readers that treatment does work.
Winners
for 2004 - 2005
Press
Release - April 1, 2005
In
the print category, first place went to Patrick Walker of the Waxahachie
Daily Light for his September 2004 article "Broken Dreams: Decuirs
Hope Their Story Helps Change Attitudes." The article relates the
struggles and rewards of Diane and Lionel Decuir, who, over the
course of their 40-year marriage, have succeeded in the face of
Diane's diagnosis of both bipolar and obsessive-compulsive disorders.
Second place in the print category was awarded to Andrea Ball of
the Austin American-Statesman, for her January 2005 article,
"Hospitals Seeing More Mentally Ill." The story documented the startling
rise of persons experiencing psychiatric crises in hospital emergency
rooms following changes to Texas' public mental health system.
Marina Pisano of the San Antonio Express News took third
place for her article "Mind-Body Connection" which explored the
interrelationship of mental and physical health.
First place in the broadcast division went to Waco reporter Bianca
Castro and photographer Pascual Rodriguez of KWTX-TV for a February
2005 story about treating post-traumatic stress disorder among female
veterans of the Iraq War being cared for in Veterans Affairs Hospitals
in Waco and Fort Hood. The piece followed a congressional investigation
that suggested that VA hospitals were not adequately prepared to
handle increasing numbers of PTSD cases of soldiers returning from
Iraq.
Reporter Wendy Rigby and photographer Richard Woods of KENS-TV in
San Antonio were awarded second place for an April 2004 story on
research at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San
Antonio in which brain imaging technology is employed to improve
diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder.
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