Reese Erlich - Journalism Awards

Journalism Awards

• 2012 The Society of Professional Journalists (Northern Calif.) gave Erlich an award for best radio explanatory journalism for his documentary "Inside the Syrian Revolution."
• 2011 Erlich received two grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to cover the Arab Spring uprisings.
• 2010 Erlich and co-author Peter Coyote won an honorable mention from Project Censored for their 2009 article in Vanity Fair Online entitled “Murders at Al-Sukariya.”
• 2006 Peabody Award, shared with producers of Crossing East, a public radio documentary describing the history of Asians in the U.S.
• Clarion Award presented by the Association for Women in Communications for the public radio documentary "Children of War." (2006)
• Second and third place from the National Headliner Awards in the Best Documentary and War Coverage categories (2004) for "Children of War."
• Project Censored at Sonoma State University, eighth most censored story in America in 2002-3 for article "Hidden Killers" about U.S. use of depleted uranium.
• Depth reporting prize for broadcast journalism awarded by the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (2002) for public radio documentary The Russia Project hosted by Walter Cronkite.
• Bronze World Medal in the national/international news category from the New York Festivals (2002) for The Russia Project.
• Second place in the Chicago International Film Festival investigative reporting category (1996) for Erlich's TV documentary "Prison Labor/Prison Blues."