DAILY NEWS STAFF REPORTER WINS MEDIA AWARD.Byline: Daily News Daily News Staff Writer Yvette Cabrera on Saturday was named a first-place winner in the annual La Pluma Award contest sponsored by the California Chicano News Media Association. Cabrera, 26, won first place in the print feature category for ``Fighting Chance fighting chance n. A chance to win but only with a struggle: had a fighting chance to recover. fighting chance Noun a slight chance of success dependent on a struggle ,'' an account of young leukemia patient Amador Navarro's battle against the disease. The stories, published by the Daily News on March 8, illustrated the difficulties that minority leukemia patients have finding bone-marrow donors. Navarro, now 7, is recuperating from a successful bone-marrow transplant in January. La Pluma awards recognize outstanding achievement in print and broadcast journalism Broadcast journalism refers to television news and radio news, as well as the online news outlets of broadcast affiliates. in California, with an emphasis on stories that report on significant issues impacting Latino communities. The awards were presented Saturday in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. at a fund-raising dinner to benefit the association's scholarship fund for young Latino journalists. Cabrera covers the communities of the Northeast Valley and Latino affairs for the Daily News. Born in Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , she graduated from Occidental College History The Birth of Occidental College Occidental College (commonly referred to as Oxy) was founded on April 20, 1887, by a group of Presbyterian clergy and laymen. in Los Angeles and began her journalism career in 1994. She was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). and Allentown (Penn.) Morning Call before joining the Daily News in 1996. Other La Pluma Award winners announced Saturday were KGTV in San Diego for television news story, television feature story and television feature photography; KNSD in San Diego for television news photography; KPBS radio in San Diego for radio news story and radio feature story; Vida Nueva magazine for print news photography; Los Angeles Times for print news story, and North (San Diego) County Times for print feature photography. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO CABRERA |
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