CWS' Herlinger wins DeRose-Hinkhouse writing awards

From "Lesley Crosson" <lcrosson@churchworldservice.org>
Date Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:15:07 -0400

For Immediate release
April 3, 2011

CWS' Herlinger wins DeRose-Hinkhouse writing awards

NEW YORK- The Religion Communicators Council has honored reporting from
Haiti by Church World Service staffer Chris Herlinger

Herlinger, a CWS writer and editor, won two awards of excellence in the
annual DeRose-Hinkhouse Memorial Awards competition. The awards were
announced March 31 during the RCC's annual convention, held this year in
Little Rock, Ark.

Herlinger won the awards in the category of writing. He won the award
of excellence for newspaper feature, single story, for an article on
Haiti's ailing food system that appeared Sept. 3, 2010, in National
Catholic Reporter
(http://ncronline.org/news/justice/quake-strained-haiti’s-already-ailing-food-system).


He won the award of excellence, magazine article, single story, for an
article evaluating the humanitarian response in Haiti six months after
the quake that appeared in the Aug. 24, 2010, edition of The Christian
Century 
(http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2010-08/standstill-haiti ).

The reporting on Haiti was based on two assignments for CWS and the ACT
Alliance in 2010. Herlinger is currently writing a book on Haiti,
"Rubble Nation: Haiti's Pain, Haiti's Promise" that will be published in
the fall of 2011 by Seabury Books, a division of New York-based Church
Publishing Group.

This marks the fifth successive year Herlinger has won a
DeRose-Hinkhouse Award. The DeRose-Hinkhouse Memorial Awards are given
each year to active RCC members who demonstrate excellence in religious
communications and public relations. Established in 1967, the awards are
named for the late Victor DeRose and the late Paul M. Hinkhouse, leading
lithographers in New York City and longtime friends of RCC.

The Religion Communicators Council is an interfaith association of
religion communicators at work in print and electronic communication,
marketing, and public relations. Established in 1929, it is the oldest
association of religion communicators in the United States.

Read more on the awards and see a full list of winners at
http://data.memberclicks.com/site/recc/DeRoseHinkhouseAwardWinners2011.pdf

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