"How Houston Floods"
Recipient of the STAR ONLINE PACKAGE OF THE YEAR award in The Charles E. Green Awards (2021)
Houston Chronicle
Judge’s Comments:
The Houston Chronicle’s “How Houston Floods” takes an important and multifaceted subject vital to nearly all of its readers and carefully breaks down the many complexities in an easy-to-follow and engaging way.
This was clearly planned as a digital and immersive story from the beginning, which is unlike some of the other entries in this category that, while important journalism, seemed to be packaged later for digital.
Aaron Chimbel
Dean of the Jandoli School of Communication
St. Bonaventure University.
Judge’s Bio:
Aaron Chimbel is dean of the Jandoli School of Communication at St. Bonaventure University. Prior to joining the St. Bonaventure faculty in August 2018, Chimbel taught journalism at Texas Christian University. His academic writing has been in the Newspaper Research Journal, Convergence Newsletter, MediaShift, Journal of Social Media in Society and Electronic News, among others. He has published two books: “Introduction to Journalism” and “Why I'm a Journalist: Personal Stories from Those Who Cover the News."
Before academia, Chimbel worked at WFAA-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth as the “MoJo” or mobile journalist where he earned five Advanced Media Emmy Awards and was part of the WFAA team that received a national Edward R. Murrow Award. Chimbel was also a reporter for KWTX-TV (Waco-Temple-Killeen, Texas) and a producer at Texas Cable News. Chimbel is a graduate of TCU and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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