Hella Winston

Jewish Week Receives Casey Medal Honor

Paper’s investigative series on child abuse in Orthodox community cited in national contest.

07/03/2012

Staff Report

Hella Winston, who has been reporting about the problem of child sexual abuse in the fervently Orthodox community for The Jewish Week for four years, and the paper’s managing editor, Robert Goldblum, received an Honorable Mention in the 2012 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism.

The awards were announced last week by The Journalism Center on Children and Families, which sponsors the investigative journalism contest, now in its 18th year.

Hella Winston: Her reporting, the Casey judges said, “encouraged abuse victims to come forward.”

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Jewish Week Wins Six Awards From American Jewish Press Association

06/14/2012

Adam Dickter

Assistant Managing Editor

The Jewish Week took home six awards for excellence in Jewish journalism from the American Jewish Press Association's annual banquet in Philadelphia Wednesday.

The awards included first and second place honors in both the new and feature categories in the annual Simon Rockower contest, as well as first place honors for best personality profile and special sections.

Award winners Eric Herschthal, left, Stewart Ain and Julie Wiener. (photo by Michael Datikash)

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At Least The NY Times Public Editor Does Right By The Jewish Media

Submitted by Gary Rosenblatt on Fri, 05/25/2012 - 11:21

After years of seeing our reporting poached by The New York Times, it was a pleasant surprise to see the public editor, Arthur Brisbane, devote his Sunday column this week to that very topic.

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DA Struggles To Explain Kolko Plea Deal

04/30/2008

by Hella Winston and Larry Cohler-Esses

Staff Writers

It's the case they can't keep straight.
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes' shifting explanations of a widely criticized plea deal earlier this month for alleged child sex molester Rabbi Yehuda Kolko took several dizzying turns this week.

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